![]() ![]() Of the many discoveries detailed within its pages, Newton explained how glass prisms could both break white light down into and reconstitute it with the constituent colors of the optical spectrum weighed in on the debate on whether light was a particle or a wave (he believed it was a particle, which he called a corpuscle) and described how our perception of color comes from the way a material selectively absorbs, transmits or reflects the different colors within white light. Unlike his more famous „Principia Mathematica,“ which outlined the three laws of motion and was written in Latin, Newton wrote Opticks in popular, vernacular English, making it accessible to a wider audience. Newton’s Opticks was first published in 1704 and was the culmination of decades of the physicist’s investigations into the nature of light. (Image credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images) ![]() Opticks contains details of Newton’s famous experiments using prisms to investigate the composition of light. ![]()
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