Optics
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
A Manuscript Note-book, c 1681-c 1693
Notes on precious stones, colours, temperatures, salts, medical matters, alchemy and other subjects, in English and Latin.
Additional publications and lectures, 1949-1964
George Frederick Charles Searle: Notebooks and Class Experiments
Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat, c 1672-c 1706
Drafts of 'Optics' and other miscellaneous material.
Index of Reprints, c.1925-1982
Lectiones Opticae, January 1669
Early draft.
Letters to Edgar W. Cox, 16 Jun 1912 - 30 Apr 1915
Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
Notes on Sanderson's lectures in the hand of William Haswell. Includes: lectures on hydrostatics, sounds, optics (with others), mechanics, astronomy, tides, technical chronology, and the doctrine of heat and cold. With (fo. 128) copy of letter from James Bate to Hans Deveille, 3 Jan. 1726
Problems in Geometrical Optics, c 1666
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
Proof sheets of the edition of Newton's Opticks, with a few MS. additions by Newton
Moved to Rare Books: Adv. D. 39.3
Richard Watson: Notes of lectures
184 folios. Includes: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 2v) rough notes; (fo. 3) notes by Richard Watson of lectures given by Gerras Holmes on natural philosophy; (fo. 66) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on optics; (fo. 134) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on hydrostatics; (fo. 180v) 'Lectures read by Mr. Holmes of Emanuel College in Cambridge', 'Cambridge 31' and scribblings; (fo. 184) 'twells Pigott Pigott Burslem Twells'.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes: Miscellaneous Papers
The Laws of Reflection, c 1665-c 1672
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.