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Catalogue Entry: NATP00126

Draft of the 'Discourse Concerning Light and Colors'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: c. early 1675, c. 11,436 words, 2 pp.

Source: MS Add. 3970.3, ff. 519r-529r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

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[1] Of the colours of plated transparent substances.

[2] Of the Colours of naturall bodies.

[3] An Hypothesis hinted at for explicating all the aforesaid properties of light

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