Abstract
Newton marks the beginning of a new era in physics. The various lines of thought described in the last chapter converge towards his philosophy of nature: Copernicus’ heliocentric system, Kepler’s study of optics and the movement of the planets, Galileo’s theory of the free fall, the mechanicism of Descartes and Huygens, and the atomism of Gassend. Because Newton is unique in the contribution he made to the theory of color, a few biographical notes are given here [1].
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Westphall, 1980.
In the final paragraph of the Principia.
Newton, Opticks 4th edition, p. 1.
ibidem, p. 361.
Cit. I. Bernard Cohen in preface to the 1979 edition.
Newton, Opticks 4th edition, p. 124.
Jaeger 1994.
Newton (Query 28).
ibidem, p. 346 (Query 15).
Reproduced from Grüsser 1990.
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Crone, R.A. (1999). Newton. In: A History of Color. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0870-9_5
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