Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light. The third edition, corrected. By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt

People / Organizations

• Isaac Newton (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for William and John Innys at the west end of St. Paul's, 1721.

Publication year

1721

ESTC No.

T131541

Grub Street ID

180524

Description

[8],382,[2]p.,plates ; 8°.

Note

With a final advertisement leaf

In this setting the headpiece on p.1 has a man with a globe in the centre and p. 192 line 14 ends: 24; cf. T18662, with which the setting of text appears to converge from quire O onwards

Printed by William Bowyer; the headpiece on p. 1 is Bowyer ornament 57. Cf. K.I.D. Maslen, The Bowyer ornament stock (Oxford, 1973).