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Lecture · 1728 · 1 yr after death

Optical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge

by Isaac Newton

Kept from archive.org · 1 file · 241 KBCall number NEW LC1728.01

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Public domainAnonymous English translation printed in the early 1700s; translator died long before 1956.Basis: translation published 1702-1728, 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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Isaac Newton, Optical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge (1728). Long Keeping, call number NEW LC1728.01. https://longkeeping.com/isaac-newton/optical-lectures-read-in-the-publick-schools-of-the-universi/
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.

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  • #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.

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ia-optical-lectures-1728_djvu.txt

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ia-optical-lectures-1728_djvu.txtmain OCR text 241 KB archive.org 6d34fc02ea51de1c136ce78334868d719e2cb2695d761772279cb759719e2b59 Public domainAnonymous English translation printed in the early 1700s; translator died long before 1956.Basis: translation published 1702-1728, 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)