All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton's Opticks Tapa dura - 1993

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993-07-22. Hardcover. Good.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. Fine. Hardcover. 0198539851 . First edition 8vo 252 pages illustrated with black & white frontis, and figures in text. Fine green cloth hard back with a fine dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. "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… Leer más

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 252pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Light toning to the edges of jacket flaps.

GB: OUP Oxford University Press, 1993. Virtually as new. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine/nrFine DW.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.