Newton, Mathematical Principles, 226–228 (book I, section XIV, prop. These have been recently edited and translated

The Lectiones opticae are preserved in two manuscript versions. a descriptive mathematical theory in terms of rays (not corpuscles), based on the sine law of refraction and a dispersion law. This is the virtual absence of a mathematical theory of colours (as projected and attempted in the Lectiones opticae but later abandoned), i.e. Shapiro focuses on what may be called the third incompleteness of the Opticks. Shapiro, “Experiment and Mathematics in Newton’s Theory of Color,” Physics Today 37(1984), no. The general scholium was added in the second edition of the Principia (1713).Ĭohen, Newtonian Revolution, 133–141. Cajori, based on the third Latin edition (1726)īerkeley etc., 1934, 81974), 547 (book III, general scholium). Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (transi. Hakfoort, “De Newtonse revolutie en de wetenschapsfilosofie,” Kennis en methode 6(1982) 368–379. With Illustrations of the Transformation of Scientific Ideas (Cambridge etc., 1980), 4–154, esp. See also id., “Torn between three lovers: on the historiography of 18th-century optics” (abstract), in: XVIIth International Congress of History of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 31 July - 8 August 1985, Acts, vol. Ibid., 48–51 the third was Edmé Mariotte.Ĭ.

Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change (Chicago etc., 1977), 31–65. Kuhn, “Mathematical versus experimental traditions in the development of physical science,” in: id., The essential Tension. 29): “Are not the Rays of Light very small bodies emitted from shining Substances?”. A Latin edition was published as Optice (London, 1706). Newton, Opticks or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light (London, 1704 21717, 31721, 41730 reprint, based on the fourth English edition: New York, 1952), the quotation is from the title page of the first English edition.

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