All was light : an introduction to Newton's opticks

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All was light : an introduction to Newton's opticks

A. Rupert Hall

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993

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Bibliography: p. [241]-246

Includes index

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内容説明

"Opticks" is Sir Issac Newton's most popular book. It is a complex work, the fruit of 40 years of thought and investigation. Newton devoted various periods of experimentation to this final expression of his life's work and drew on the results of successive interactions with other scientists and thinkers. This introduction to his book seeks to disentangle the different layers of his thought in the light of these influences while explaining the development of the final text. It faces the problem of the change in Newton's ideas in the course of the book's long preparation, touching on such deep questions of natural philosophy as atomism, forces and the aether. The author also looks in detail at the way Newton has been interpreted both at home and abroad. This book should serve as an introduction to this area of Newton's science seen in the context of 18th century thought in Europe.

目次

  • Part 1 The author and the background to his book : Newton, the writer
  • Newton and his predecessors
  • the birth of physical optics. Part 2 Preparations - experiment and polemic: early optical experiments, 1664-1666
  • the "Optical Lectures", 1670-1672
  • first publication, first disputes, 1672
  • the discourse of observations, 1675
  • optical mechanics", 1685-1686. Part 3 The book develops: the writing of "Opticks"
  • the text of "Opticks"
  • the queries
  • the nature of light and matter. Part 4 "Opticks" and its readers: the fate of "Opticks" in Britain
  • the fate of "Opticks" in Europe
  • the popularizers. Appendices: The early editions of "Opticks"
  • the queries in "Opticks"
  • some 17th century books on optics.

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