Opticks: . or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Category
Books
Date
1704
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3113887
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],144;136p., 137-138 leaves, 139-211,[1]p., [18] folding plates . ill.., tables . 4to.. Provenance: Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled sprinkled calf over boards; blind fillets, roll-tools and cornerpieces; rebacked in calf; sewn on five raised bands.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)