opticks

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A form of optics — The physics of light and vision: basic optical science.

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Meanings

nounopticks (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of optics.

    I have now given in Axioms and their Explications the ſumm of what hath hitherto been treated of in Opticks.

    1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, page 12

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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