For if the experiments which I relate be accurate, the science of colours will be a new one; for although colours have been observed from antiquity, yet the cause of their productions has remained unknown to this day.
— Isaac Newton Early Modern

Laws of motion and gravity

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From 'Opticks', Book I, Part I, Proposition I, Theorem I

Date / Period

1704

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Strange & Unusual

Source

https://books.google.com/books?id=r1oAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1

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