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Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706). The treatise analyses 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 colour mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks was Newton's second major work on physical science and it is considered one of the three major works on optics during
Micrographia
Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon is a historically significant book by Robert Hooke about his observations through various lenses. It was the first book to include illustrations of insects and plants as seen through microscopes.
The Second World War
literary work by Winston Churchill
Actes and Monuments
1563 work by English historian John Foxe
The Malay Archipelago
book by Alfred Russel Wallace
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
non-fiction work by Stephen Knight
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
1898 book by Winston Churchill
Defence of the Seven Sacraments
book
Wordless Book
book without words and with colour pages by Charles Spurgeon
Man's Place in Nature
essay by Thomas Henry Huxley
Marlborough: His Life and Times
book by Winston Churchill
The Plays of William Shakespeare
book by William Shakespeare
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
book by Samuel Johnson
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
book by Winston Churchill
Revelations of Divine Love
medieval book of Christian mystical devotions by Julian of Norwich
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
book by the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates
The Spanish Labyrinth
essay by Gerald Brenan