Opticks
Author(s): Sir Isaac Newton
Genre(s): *non-fiction, Nature, Science
Narrators: Availle, Smitaj, MaryA, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, Ric F, Pamela Krantz, Amy Gramour, Mark Mickelson, Sachin, Mark F. Smith, Guero
Number of Chapters: 41
Length: 12 hours and 12 minutes
Language: English
The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, from 1730, which Newton himself had corrected from the third edition before his death. (Summary by Availle)