Isaac Newton's "Opticks" is a foundational work in the field of physics, detailing his experiments and theories on light and color. It significantly influenced the understanding of optics and the scientific method for centuries.
Sources for Isaac Newton — Opticks
Isaac Newton — Opticks in Physics
Held in the Physics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Albert Einstein — Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
- Albert Einstein — Time, Space, and Gravitation (1919)
- Lord Rayleigh — The Theory of Sound (1877)
- Lucretius — On the Nature of Things (c. 50 BCE)
- Marie Curie — Radioactive Substances (1903)
- Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light (1690)
- Michael Faraday — Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839)
- James Clerk Maxwell — A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
- Heinrich Hertz — Electric Waves (1893)
- Ernst Mach — The Science of Mechanics (1883)
- Wilhelm Röntgen — Röntgen Rays (1899)
- Ibn al-Haytham — Book of Optics (Kitāb al-Manāẓir) (c. 1021 CE)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)