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Lecture · 1729 · 2 yrs after death

Lectiones Opticae

by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 1 file · 455 KBCall number NEW LC1729.01

Provenance

Source
archive.org
Retrieved
1 October 2026
Source terms (summary)
Internet Archive item: not in copyright
Rights
Public domainNewton's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.
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500641a0b1bb0e38f78c9ff3f327b80dac783907f6f3df551e2b437438ee18a9sha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as
Isaac Newton, Lectiones Opticae (1729). Long Keeping, call number NEW LC1729.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/lectiones-opticae/
Unchanged since collected At the last check, on 2 October 2026, all 903 originals, this work's file among them, matched the fingerprints recorded when they were collected. Each copy is re-checked by hand once a year; there is no automatic alert yet.

Notes on this copy

  • #2Machine-read text (OCR), not proofread, with no page images in the file to check it against.
  • #10An Internet Archive derivative made from the scan, not the master scan.

Original

ia-lectiones-opticae-1729_djvu.txt

Open original OCR text, 455 KBPublic domain

Files

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ia-lectiones-opticae-1729_djvu.txtmain OCR text 455 KB archive.org 500641a0b1bb0e38f78c9ff3f327b80dac783907f6f3df551e2b437438ee18a9 Public domainNewton's own text, as far as the record shows: its edition and notes name no translator or editor.Basis: author death year 1727, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.From the Internet Archive (another site)