Isaac Newton - Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus Et Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres...

<p>Terza edizione (la prima usc&igrave; nel 1704) del fondamentale testo in cui Newton dimostra che la luce bianca &egrave; composta da tutti i tipi di luce colorata. &quot;All previous philosophers and mathematicians had been sure that white light is pure and simple, regarding colours as modifications or qualifications of the white. Newton showed experimentally that the opposite is true... Natural white light, far from being simple, is a compound of many pure elementary colours which can be separated and recompounded at will&quot; (PMM p. 102).</p>