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Shedding new light on Newton's optical writings

Alan Shapiro ed.: The optical papers of Isaac Newton. Volume 1. The optical lectures 1670–1672. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, 627 pp, £38.99 PB Alan Shapiro ed.: The optical papers of Isaac Newton. Volume 2. The Opticks (1704) and related papers ca.1688–1717. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 423 pp, £150.00 HB

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Guicciardini, N. Shedding new light on Newton's optical writings. Metascience 31, 11–15 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00702-8

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