Opticks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Opticks, credited to Isaac Newton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Opticks, by Isaac Newton. Read by Librivox volunteers. The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on the refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, from 1730, which Newton corrected from the third edition before his death. (Summary by Ava)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Opticks
• Author credits: Isaac Newton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Combined MP3 track duration: 12:13:18

Catalogue topics

• science
• non-fiction
• physics
• optics
• refraction
• reflection
• light
• prism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 Titlepage and Advertisements — 5:33
2. 01 Book I Part I - Definitions — 6:21
3. 02 Book I Part I - Axioms — 23:30
4. 03 Book I Part I - Proposition I — 11:32
5. 04 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 1 — 12:25
6. 05 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 2 — 17:16
7. 06 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 3 — 20:34
8. 07 Book I Part I - Proposition II, Section 4 — 12:30
9. 08 Book I Part I - Propositions III - IV — 17:01
10. 09 Book I Part I - Propositions V - VI — 17:47
11. 10 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 1 — 23:35
12. 11 Book I Part I - Proposition VII, Section 2 — 23:45
13. 12 Book I Part I - Proposition VIII — 6:22
14. 13 Book I Part II - Propositions I - II — 16:10
15. 14 Book I Part II - Definition and Propositions III - IV — 16:56
16. 15 Book I Part II - Proposition V — 29:59
17. 16 Book I Part II - Propositions VI - VIII — 23:19
18. 17 Book I Part II - Proposition IX — 18:02
19. 18 Book I Part II - Propositions X - XI — 19:17
20. 19 Book II Part I - Observations 1 - 6 — 18:12
21. 20 Book II Part I - Observations 7 - 16 — 17:59
22. 21 Book II Part I - Observations 17 - 24 — 18:33
23. 22 Book II Part II - Section 1 — 17:23
24. 23 Book II Part II - Section 2 — 18:54

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