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$Cover of Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light$

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

Name: Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
Author: Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

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00 Titlepage and Advertisements (5:33)
01 Book I Part I - Definitions (6:20)
02 Book I Part I - Axioms (23:29)
03 Book I Part I - Proposition I (11:32)
04 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 1 (12:25)
05 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 2 (17:16)
06 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 3 (20:34)
07 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 4 (12:29)
08 Book I Part I - Propositions III - IV (17:01)
09 Book I Part I - Propositions V - VI (17:47)
10 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 1 (23:35)
11 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 2 (23:45)
12 Book I Part I - Proposition VIII (6:22)
13 Book I Part II - Propositions I - II (16:09)
14 Book I Part II - Definition and Propositions III - IV (16:55)
15 Book I Part II - Proposition V (29:58)
16 Book I Part II - Propositions VI - VIII (23:18)
17 Book I Part II - Proposition IX (18:02)
18 Book I Part II - Propositions X - XI (19:16)
19 Book II Part I - Observations 1 - 6 (18:12)
20 Book II Part I - Observations 7 - 16 (17:58)
21 Book II Part I - Observations 17 - 24 (18:32)
22 Book II Part II - Section 1 (17:23)
23 Book II Part II - Section 2 (18:54)
24 Book II Part III - Propositions I - VI (17:12)
25 Book II Part III - Proposition VII (13:32)
26 Book II Part III - Propositions VIII - IX (13:52)
27 Book II Part III - Propositions X - XI (32:26)
28 Book II Part III - Propositions XII - XX (19:17)
29 Book II Part IV - Observations 1 - 6 (14:13)
30 Book II Part IV - Observations 7 - 9 (20:03)
31 Book II Part IV - Observations 10 - 13 (14:09)
32 Book III Part I - Observations 1 - 5 (19:16)
33 Book III Part I - Observations 6 - 11 (24:39)
34 Book III Part I - Queries 1 - 15 (15:43)
35 Book III Part 1 - Queries 16 - 24 (15:05)
36 Book III Part I - Queries 25 - 27 (14:45)
37 Book III Part I - Queries 28 - 29 (23:55)
38 Book III Part I - Queries 30 - 31 (24:22)
39 Book III Part I - Query 31 cont. (16:03)
40 Book III Part I - Query 31 cont. (21:43)

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