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NEWTON (ISAAC)
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light, W. & J. Innys, 1718

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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NEWTON (ISAAC)

Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light, second (first octavo) edition, second issue, 12 folding engraved plates, light spotting, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed with upper joint slightly weakened [Babson 134], 8vo, W. & J. Innys, 1718

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The second issue of the second edition, with the plates newly engraved, "and the number of Queries at the end increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated Query No. 28 on the nature of light" (Babson).

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