Featured work from our Rare Book Collection:

Sir Issac Newton
Opticks: or A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
London: S. Smith and B. Walford
1704

This book details Newton’s work in the field of opticks, the study of the behavior and properties of light including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. It is considered by some to be the one of the most influential works of science in history.