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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Opticksnoun
The science of the nature and laws of vision.
Etymology: ὀπτιϰὴ.
No spherical body of what bigness soever illuminates the whole sphere of another, although it illuminate something more than half of a lesser, according unto the doctrine of opticks. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Err. b. vi.
Those who desire satisfaction in the appearance, must go to the admirable treatise of opticks by Isaac Newton. George Cheyne, Phil. Prin.
Opticksnoun
The science of the nature and laws of vision.
Etymology: ὀπτιϰὴ.
No spherical body of what bigness soever illuminates the whole sphere of another, although it illuminate something more than half of a lesser, according unto the doctrine of opticks. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Err. b. vi.
Those who desire satisfaction in the appearance, must go to the admirable treatise of opticks by Isaac Newton. George Cheyne, Phil. Prin.
Wikipedia
Opticks
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706). The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks was Newton's second major book on physical science and it is considered one of the three major works on optics during the Scientific Revolution (alongside Kepler's Astronomiae Pars Optica and Huygens' Traité de la Lumière). Newton's name did not appear on the title page of the first edition of Opticks.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of opticks in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of opticks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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