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Opticks (Isaac Newton)

A work by Isaac Newton, first published in 1704

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The properties of light should be proved by reason and experiments, not explained by hypotheses, The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, back to a first cause that is not mechanical, Nature is simple and consistent with itself: gravity moves the heavens, and other attracting and repelling powers move small particles …

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Key facts

First published
17042
Edition korrents quotes
fourth edition, 17303
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The properties of light should be proved by reason and experiments, not explained by hypotheses (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, back to a first cause that is not mechanical (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Nature is simple and consistent with itself: gravity moves the heavens, and other attracting and repelling powers move small particles (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Matter was probably made in the beginning as solid, hard, impenetrable, moving particles (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Explaining things by hidden 'occult qualities' tells us nothing (opens korrents.com)1

  6. In natural philosophy, as in mathematics, analysis should always come before synthesis (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Opticks (fourth edition, 1730) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light, Q74263 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Opticks (fourth edition, 1730) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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