The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, from 1730, which Newton himself had corrected from the third edition before his death. (Summary by Availle)
Chapters
1 Titlepage and Advertisements 6 min 2 Book I Part I - Definitions 6 min 3 Book I Part I - Axioms 23 min 4 Book I Part I - Proposition I 12 min 5 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 1 12 min 6 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 2 17 min 7 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 3 21 min 8 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 4 12 min 9 Book I Part I - Propositions III - IV 17 min 10 Book I Part I - Propositions V - VI 18 min 11 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 1 24 min 12 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 2 24 min 13 Book I Part I - Proposition VIII 6 min 14 Book I Part II - Propositions I - II 16 min 15 Book I Part II - Definition and Propositions III - IV 17 min 16 Book I Part II - Proposition V 30 min 17 Book I Part II - Propositions VI - VIII 23 min 18 Book I Part II - Proposition IX 18 min 19 Book I Part II - Propositions X - XI 19 min 20 Book II Part I - Observations 1 - 6 18 min 21 Book II Part I - Observations 7 - 16 18 min 22 Book II Part I - Observations 17 - 24 19 min 23 Book II Part II - Section 1 17 min 24 Book II Part II - Section 2 19 min 25 Book II Part III - Propositions I - VI 17 min 26 Book II Part III - Proposition VII 14 min 27 Book II Part III - Propositions VIII - IX 14 min 28 Book II Part III - Propositions X - XI 32 min 29 Book II Part III - Propositions XII - XX 19 min 30 Book II Part IV - Observations 1 - 6 14 min 31 Book II Part IV - Observations 7 - 9 20 min 32 Book II Part IV - Observations 10 - 13 14 min 33 Book III Part I - Observations 1 - 5 19 min 34 Book III Part I - Observations 6 - 11 25 min 35 Book III Part I - Queries 1 - 15 16 min 36 Book III Part 1 - Queries 16 - 24 15 min 37 Book III Part I - Queries 25 - 27 15 min 38 Book III Part I - Queries 28 - 29 24 min 39 Book III Part I - Queries 30 - 31 24 min 40 Book III Part I - Query 31 cont 16 min 41 Book III Part I - Query 31 cont 22 min
