Great Books of Science and Mathematics

Newton/Huygens (Vol. 34)

Here is a list of the works of Newton and Huygens that are contained in the Great Books of the Western World, published by Encyclopedia Britannica. If a selection is clickable, it means that this amateur has read at least enough of it to make a comment or two:

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Optics

• Treatise on Light
  1. On rays propagated in straight lines
  2. On reflection
  3. On refraction
  4. On the refraction of the air
  5. On the strange refractions of Iceland crystal
  6. On the figures of transparent bodies which serve for refraction and for reflection