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NEWTON'S FIRST SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION NEWTON, SIR ISAAC. A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton... containing his New Theory about Light and Colors [caption

NEWTON'S FIRST SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION NEWTON, SIR ISAAC. A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton... containing his New Theory about Light and Colors [caption title]. in: Philosophical Transactions, Volume 6, Number 80. 3075-95, [3] pages. Thin 4to, disbound, first and last leaves loose. (London: John Martyn, 1671)

  • Notes: first printing of Newton's first communication to the Royal Society, appearing on pages 3075-87. "Newton's first scientific publication, with description of the famous analysis of white light by dispersion into its colors, and of the development of the reflecting telescope"--Grolier/Horblit 79a. Babson 165.

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