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Hall, A. R. "Isaac Newton and the aerial nitre." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 52, no. 1 (January 22, 1998): 51–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1998.0034.

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On 6 January 1713 Isaac Newton wrote to Roger Cotes, his assistant in preparing the second edition of his Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica , then in the press at Cambridge: ‘I shall send you in a few days a Scholium of about a quarter of a sheet to be added to the end of the book ...’ However, it was only on 2 March that Cotes actually received the copy for the ‘General Scholium’ from Newton, whose drafting processes now proceeded slowly; moreover, there had been Mint business in the interval. In a short accompanying letter Newton also informed Cotes of his decision not to say ‘much more about the attraction of the small particles of bodies’, a topic to which Newton would return in the late Queries added to Opticks.
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Robles, José A. "Las tesis panteístas de Isaac Newton." Diánoia. Revista de Filosofía 46, no. 46 (September 2, 2016): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.21898/dia.v46i46.474.

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<p class='p1'>En este escrito, análisis de algunas tesis teológicas de Newton que figuran en su texto de publicación póstuma, “De gravitatione et æquipondio fluidorum” (ca. 1668), sostengo que su autor mantuvo una posición panteísta que aún permanecerá en obras posteriores, como en su Opticks (1704) y en el “Escolio general” al “Sistema del mundo” en las ediciones de 1713/1726 (2a. y 3a.) de su prodigiosa obra Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Además de dar argumentos en apoyo de la conclusión señalada con respecto a la posición de Newton, también considero dos interesantes propuestas sobre la Creación, la de Juan Escoto Erígena (ca. 810–877) y la del cabalista judío del siglo XVI, Isaac Luria (1534–1572), quienes fueron considerados panteístas (las propuestas del pensador irlandés fueron condenadas por el Concilio de París de 1210, 333 años después de su muerte) aun cuando ellos no tuviesen este designio. Finalmente, intento darles sentido a las tesis teológicas de Newton dentro de un contexto de filosofía natural.</p>
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Hall, A. R. "Cambridge: Newton's legacy." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 55, no. 2 (May 22, 2001): 205–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2001.0139.

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Before the death of Isaac Newton (in 1727), the colleges of Cambridge had begun to teach their undergraduates, besides moral philosophy, both natural and mathematical science. Their studies were judged by a University examination soon known as the ‘Tripos’, in which the students were listed in order of merit. By mid–century, knowledge of geometry, of Opticks, and of at least the earlier sections of the Principia, was required to gain a high place. The genius of Newton was firmly impressed upon Cambridge, the ‘mathematical university’.
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Henry, John. "Enlarging the bounds of moral philosophy: Why did Isaac Newton conclude the Opticks the way he did?" Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71, no. 1 (October 5, 2016): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0011.

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This paper draws attention to the remarkable closing words of Isaac Newton's Optice (1706) and subsequent editions of the Opticks (1718, 1721), and tries to suggest why Newton chose to conclude his book with a puzzling allusion to his own unpublished conclusions about the history of religion. Newton suggests in this concluding passage that the bounds of moral philosophy will be enlarged as natural philosophy is ‘perfected’. Asking what Newton might have had in mind, the paper first considers the idea that he was foreshadowing the ‘moral Newtonianism’ developed later in the eighteenth century; then it considers the idea that he was perhaps pointing to developments in natural theology. Finally, the paper suggests that Newton wanted to at least signal the importance of attempting to recover the true original religion, and perhaps was hinting at his intention to publish his own extensive research on the history of the Church.
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Martins, Roberto de Andrade, and Cibelle Celestino Silva. "As pesquisas de Newton sobre a luz: Uma visão histórica." Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física 37, no. 4 (December 2015): 4202–1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1806-11173731817.

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Este artigo apresenta uma visão histórica geral sobre o desenvolvimento dos trabalhos de Isaac Newton a respeito da óptica, desde suas primeiras investigações em 1664 até o final de sua vida, quando publicou as várias edições de seu livro Opticks. Para permitir uma compreensão adequada do trabalho de Newton, são também apresentadas as contribuições de outros autores importantes do Século XVII, especialmente René Descartes, Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke e Christiaan Huygens. A análise dos trabalhos inéditos e publicados de Newton permite notar que ele jamais chegou a uma teoria definitiva a respeito da luz e das cores, adotando diversas hipóteses diferentes e mutuamente inconsistentes. O estudo aqui apresentado pode contribuir para complementar as visões simplificadas sobre a história da óptica e das contribuições de Newton sobre esse tema, bem como corrigir diversos equívocos presentes em obras didáticas e de divulgação científica sobre o assunto.
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Taylor, Charles. "The optical papers of Isaac Newton." Contemporary Physics 26, no. 5 (September 1985): 499–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107518508210986.

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Merkle, Fritz. "Progress in Adaptive Optics for Astronomy." Highlights of Astronomy 9 (1992): 745–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s153929960001025x.

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The problem of optical distortion produced by the earth’s atmosphere has been known in astronomy since Isaac Newton. In 1953 H. W. Babcock (1953) proposed in his paper “The Possibility of Compensating Astronomical Seeing” to use a deformable optical element driven by a wavefront sensor to correct the distortions induced by the atmosphere that affect astronomical imaging. It took another 20 years for this principle to be demonstrated successfully for defence related laser applications. And only in the early eighties the first astronomical adaptive optics projects had been triggered.
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Swerdlow, N. M. "Optical ProfusionThe Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume 1: The Optical Lectures, 1670-1672. Isaac Newton , Alan E. Shapiro." Isis 77, no. 1 (March 1986): 136–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/354068.

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Lehn, Waldemar H. "Isaac Newton and the astronomical refraction." Applied Optics 47, no. 34 (September 8, 2008): H95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.47.000h95.

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Riera, A. "Visual Extinction and Physical Conditions in the Bipolar Nebula M2-9." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 155 (1993): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900171347.

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A detailed analysis of the visual extinction and physical conditions of the extreme bipolar nebula M2-9 has been made from optical spectra acquired with the Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph of the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma) in combination with a 235mm camera and the IPCS detector covering the spectral range 3500-7500 Å with spectral resolution of 4 Å.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Opticks (Newton, Isaac)"

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Moura, Breno Arsioli. "A aceitação da óptica newtoniana no século XVIII: subsídios para discutir a Natureza da Ciência do Ensino." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/81/81131/tde-24042013-153421/.

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A compreensão da Ciência como um empreendimento dinâmico e em constante transformação tem se tornado uma das mais importantes metas da educação científica nos últimos anos. É quase senso comum que discussões sobre a Natureza da Ciência (NdC) sejam incorporadas nos currículos de ciências. De uma forma geral, a NdC pode ser definida como um arcabouço de saberes sobre as bases ou princípios epistemológicos envolvidos na construção do conhecimento científico. Uma das maneiras de se ensinar NdC é a discussão de episódios da História da Ciência. Nesse trabalho, analisamos em detalhes o desenvolvimento, a repercussão e a aceitação da óptica newtoniana; particularmente, estudamos sua popularização na Europa do início do século XVIII, principalmente na Grã-Bretanha. Neste período ocorreram mudanças sociais e culturais significativas, entre elas, a valorização da Filosofia Natural e seus produtos, o estabelecimento da mecânica e óptica newtonianas e da imagem de Isaac Newton como um representante da genuína filosofia natural. Assim, na época, foram selecionados e incorporados aos tratados de física apenas aspectos de sua óptica que evidenciavam o caráter indutivista e que ao mesmo tempo podiam ser conciliados com sua mecânica. A partir deste estudo histórico, aspectos da NdC podem ser explicitamente discutidos, por exemplo, a questão da inexistência de um método científico universal, a influência do contexto e do prestígio do pesquisador em questão na aceitação ou rejeição de suas idéias, o caráter provisório do conhecimento científico, a importância da maneira como as idéias são apresentadas, entre outras coisas. Este tipo de discussão é relevante para diversos âmbitos da formação de professores, favorecendo a construção de uma imagem adequada da Ciência de um modo geral.
Currently, there is a general agreement that Nature of Science (NOS) aspects must be included in science curriculums. The present dissertation analyzes in details the development, the repercussion and the acceptance of Newtonian optics; with particular emphasis on its popularization in early 18th century in Europe, especially in Great Britain. In this period, significant social and cultural changes occurred, among them the valorization of Natural Philosophy and its products, the establishment of Newtonian mechanics, optics and Isaac Newton\'s image as genuine representative of Natural Philosophy. As consequence, only Newtonian optics aspects that evidenced the inductivism and could be conciliated with his mechanics were incorporated in 18th century natural philosophy books. From this historical study, NOS aspects can be explicitly discussed, for instance, the inexistence of an universal scientific method, the influence of social context and how the prestige of a scientist biases the acceptance of her/his ideas, the temporary character of scientific knowledge, the relevance of how ideas are communicated, among other topics. The present work is important for teacher training courses, since it provides adequate view of Science development.
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Anderson, Edward James. "The logic of illusion in modern optics and its apologetical implications for science and religion." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Books on the topic "Opticks (Newton, Isaac)"

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All was light: An introduction to Newton's Opticks. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

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All was light: An introduction to Newton's Opticks. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.

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Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets. Princeton University Press, 2015.

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Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets. Princeton University Press, 2016.

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Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets. Princeton University Press, 2016.

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Hall, A. Rupert. All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton's Opticks. Oxford University Press, USA, 1995.

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Shapiro, Alan E. Newton’s Optics. Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696253.013.7.

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This article examines Isaac Newton’s contributions to the development of optics. Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704) dominated the science of optics for more than a century. His theory of colour and the compound nature of sunlight was central to modern optics. This article first considers Newton’s reflecting telescope before discussing the fundamental elements of his theory of the nature of white light and colour. It then evaluates the reception toward Newton’s ‘new theory about light and colour’ and his refinement of the theory, along with his corpuscular optics, with emphasis on his explanation regarding refraction and dispersion. It also explores Newton’s ideas about the colours of natural bodies and of thick plates, his theory of fits, and the delayed publication of the Opticks. Finally, it reflects on Robert Hooke’s influence on Newton’s concept of diffraction.
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Newman, William. Newton the Alchemist. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691174877.001.0001.

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When Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly became “the last of the magicians.” This book unlocks the secrets of Newton's alchemical quest, providing a radically new understanding of the uncommon genius who probed nature at its deepest levels in pursuit of empirical knowledge. The book blends in-depth analysis of newly available texts with laboratory replications of Newton's actual experiments in alchemy. It does not justify Newton's alchemical research as part of a religious search for God in the physical world, nor does it argue that Newton studied alchemy to learn about gravitational attraction. The book traces the evolution of Newton's alchemical ideas and practices over a span of more than three decades, showing how they proved fruitful in diverse scientific fields. A precise experimenter in the realm of “chymistry,” Newton put the riddles of alchemy to the test in his lab. He also used ideas drawn from the alchemical texts to great effect in his optical experimentation. In his hands, alchemy was a tool for attaining the material benefits associated with the philosopher's stone and an instrument for acquiring scientific knowledge of the most sophisticated kind. The book provides rare insights into a man who was neither Enlightenment rationalist nor irrational magus, but rather an alchemist who sought through experiment and empiricism to alter nature at its very heart.
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Webster, Erin. The Curious Eye. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850199.001.0001.

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The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? Today, in our everyday lives we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, The Curious Eye explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but rather an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.
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Meli, Domenico Bertoloni. Experimentation in the Physical Sciences of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696253.013.8.

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This article examines experimentation in the physical sciences during the seventeenth century. It first provides an overview of some features and problems of seventeenth-century experimentation before discussing experiments on the science of motion, with particular emphasis on falling bodies, the inclined plane and projectiles, and the pendulum. It then considers barometric experiments associated with Torricelli and their aftermath, including Florin Périer’s Puy-de Dôme experiment in 1648 to test whether the mercury in the barometer was lower at the top, Adrien Auzout’s void-in-the-void experiment, and Gilles de Roberval’s carp-bladder experiment. It also describes the experiments of Otto von Guericke and Robert Boyle, along with optical experiments designed to investigate the behaviour and nature of light, including Isaac Newton’s prismatic experiments.
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Book chapters on the topic "Opticks (Newton, Isaac)"

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Hofmann, Joseph Ehrenfried, and Gábor Áron Zemplén. "Newton, Isaac: Opticks or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15445-1.

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Woodhouse, Guy. "The implementation of the San Diego State University Gen II CCD controller (SDSU II) at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)." In Optical Detectors For Astronomy II, 413–20. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4361-5_41.

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"Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks." In The History of the English Language, 308–11. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315840611-52.

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"Opticks, or a Treatise of Light, 1687–1704." In Isaac Newton, 279–93. Cambridge University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511622403.013.

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Janiak, Andrew. "Queries to the Opticks [1721]." In Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings, 127–40. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511809293.012.

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Buchwald, Jed Z., and Mordechai Feingold. "Introduction." In Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154787.003.0014.

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This introductory chapter discusses Isaac Newton’s immersion in ancient prophecies, Church history, and alchemy. These investigations raise several questions: what links his interest in such matters to his investigations in optics, mechanics, and mathematics? Was Newton in his alchemical laboratory the same Newton who analyzed the passage of light through a prism and who measured the behavior of bodies falling through fluid media? What did the Newton who interpreted the Book of Revelation have to do with the man who wrote the Principia Mathematica? And how does the Newton who pored over ancient texts square with the author of the Opticks? The Newton that is the subject of this book differs in striking ways from any scientist of the twenty-first century. But he differed as well from his contemporary natural philosophers, theologians, and chronologers. The book investigates the origin of this difference and then uses it to produce a new understanding of Newton’s worldview and its historical context.
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Buchwald, Jed Z., and Mordechai Feingold. "Interpreting Words." In Newton and the Origin of Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154787.003.0008.

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More than three decades separate Isaac Newton’s explorations of astronomical chronology and his youthful engagement with problems of perception and measurement. By the time of his first computations in the area, shortly before the publication of the Opticks, Isaac Newton’s understanding of measurement had been refined through years of experimental and computational experience, not the least of which occurred as he worked on the motions of bodies in fluids during the 1680s. The previous decade had given Newton considerable familiarity with words from the past, and he had slowly developed a highly skeptical attitude toward ancient remarks that did not have a continuous textual ancestry, or that reflected what he considered to be unreliable “poetic fancies.” Thus, aiming to produce a compelling argument grounded in computation for his new chronology, Newton faced a treacherous triple problem: he had first to argue that the words with which he worked were originally produced near the time of the Trojan War; then he had to transform these words into astronomical data; finally, he had to deploy a technique for working with what he rapidly learned was a set of extremely discrepant observations. He labored over these problems until his death. This chapter follows Newton as he transformed words and calculated.
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Mazur, Joseph. "The Last of the Magicians." In Enlightening Symbols. Princeton University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691173375.003.0019.

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This chapter discusses Isaac Newton's contributions to algebra and mathematics, and particularly in terms of using symbols. It first examines Newton's idea of unknown variables as quantities flowing along a curve. Fluents, as he called them (from the Latin fluxus, which means “fluid”), were very close to the things that we now call dependent variables, our x's, but limited by their dependence on time. Newton thought of curves as “flows of points” that represented quantities. According to Newton, the fundamental task of calculus was to find the fluxions of given fluents and the fluents of given fluxions. The chapter also considers Newton's work on infinitesimals and how his invention of calculus advanced a wide range of fields such as architecture, astronomy, chemistry, optics, and thermodynamics. It also describes some of the major developments that occurred in the fifty years following Newton's death.
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"On the Genius and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton." In The Continued Exercise of Reason, edited by Brendan Dooley, 73–86. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262535007.003.0002.

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This chapter presents George Boole's lecture on the discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. The first subject of importance that engaged Newton's attention was the phenomena of prismatic colors. The results of his inquiries were communicated to the Royal Society in the year 1675, and afterwards published with most important additions in 1704. The production was entitled “Optics; or, a Treatise on the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light.” It is considered one of the most elaborate and original of his works, and carries on every page the traces of a powerful and comprehensive mind. Newton also discovered universal gravitation, which was announced to the world in 1687 through the publication of the “Principia, or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.” The object of the “Principia” is twofold: to demonstrate the law of planetary influence, and to apply that law to the purposes of calculation.
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"Newton on Certainty in Optical Lectures." In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. The MIT Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8197.003.0005.

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Conference papers on the topic "Opticks (Newton, Isaac)"

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Gladysz, Szymon, Andrew Lambert, Thomas Kociok, Detlev Sprung, Erik Sucher, and Karin Stein. "Dome Seeing Measurements at the Isaac Newton Telescope." In Adaptive Optics: Analysis, Methods & Systems. Washington, D.C.: OSA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/aoms.2020.jw3g.3.

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