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Stan’s Legacy

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Opticks (1721, 3rd Edition)

Newton's treatise on light, color, and optical phenomena. Contains his corpuscular theory of light and extensive experimental observations on refraction, diffraction, and thin films. Relevant to VIC research: understanding light emission from gas discharge, optical properties of hydrogen/oxygen flames, and spectroscopic analysis of gas production. Divided into 18 parts for reading; the divisions are this archive's, not the book's.

18 pages