Or perhaps a Daily Suginoto?
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Or perhaps a Daily Suginoto?
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opticks 115, 2018
Isaac Newton - Opticks Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1672
February 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Isaac Newton - Opticks Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1672
Thinking back to the time I got to touch one of Isaac Newton's own copies of his Opticks book.
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Thinking back to the time I got to touch one of Isaac Newton's own copies of his Opticks book.
ah shit something’s not quite right here. lemme consult the user manual
September 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ah shit something’s not quite right here. lemme consult the user manual
Isaac Newton ~ Opticks Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1672
March 24, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Isaac Newton ~ Opticks Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 1672
Just randomly remembered that I've touched an original copy of Isaac Newton's Opticks that Newton himself probably held.d
March 1, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Just randomly remembered that I've touched an original copy of Isaac Newton's Opticks that Newton himself probably held.d
Calling it "junk science" misses the point completely! Alchemy and biblical exegesis were central to Newton's entire worldview and his broad intellectual project, including the Principia and the Opticks! You can't understand Newton without the Keynes manuscripts!
my fav Newton story is they auctioned alocked trunk of his papers that he said contained his greatest ideas that were too important to be seen by others and Keynes bought them and opened the trunk eager to see what scientific marvels they hid and found all junk science about transmuting lead to gold
I'm glad Newton's complete and utter weirdness is gaining traction against the great man narrative. He was a friggin' genius, but he's a friggin' genius who drew a picture of himself poking himself in the eye (see f. 9r webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/mss/d...) & left barrels of pee outdoors to age
April 9, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Calling it "junk science" misses the point completely! Alchemy and biblical exegesis were central to Newton's entire worldview and his broad intellectual project, including the Principia and the Opticks! You can't understand Newton without the Keynes manuscripts!
BTW, his analysis of this was amazingly scientific: he guessed that minerals and salts “rise up in hot weather in vapours from the sea to form clouds, which then condense...to become a moving, polyhedrical mirror.”
This, 61 years before Newton's "Opticks". Dead impressive!
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This, 61 years before Newton's "Opticks". Dead impressive!
5/
November 16, 2024 at 5:07 PM
BTW, his analysis of this was amazingly scientific: he guessed that minerals and salts “rise up in hot weather in vapours from the sea to form clouds, which then condense...to become a moving, polyhedrical mirror.”
This, 61 years before Newton's "Opticks". Dead impressive!
5/
This, 61 years before Newton's "Opticks". Dead impressive!
5/
‘Opticks.’ #Photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto #art
December 15, 2024 at 11:10 AM
‘Opticks.’ #Photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto #art
From the archives:
The very first series of code-generated diffraction artworks, combined with drawings by Isaac Newton (Opticks).
#SciArt #Physics
Blog post with more images and background info:
elkement.art/2022/01/17/n...
The very first series of code-generated diffraction artworks, combined with drawings by Isaac Newton (Opticks).
#SciArt #Physics
Blog post with more images and background info:
elkement.art/2022/01/17/n...
August 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
From the archives:
The very first series of code-generated diffraction artworks, combined with drawings by Isaac Newton (Opticks).
#SciArt #Physics
Blog post with more images and background info:
elkement.art/2022/01/17/n...
The very first series of code-generated diffraction artworks, combined with drawings by Isaac Newton (Opticks).
#SciArt #Physics
Blog post with more images and background info:
elkement.art/2022/01/17/n...
ernest rutherford's desk, some of his scientific instruments, a nice set of old slide rules, a 1st edition of newton's 'opticks', and much more - all in a little 'museum' in the rutherford physics building at mcgill university in montreal, canada 👍🏼🧪🔭
July 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ernest rutherford's desk, some of his scientific instruments, a nice set of old slide rules, a 1st edition of newton's 'opticks', and much more - all in a little 'museum' in the rutherford physics building at mcgill university in montreal, canada 👍🏼🧪🔭
Optics (Opticks: Or Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light) Issac Newton
May 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Optics (Opticks: Or Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light) Issac Newton
One of my daughters is in a 🌈🌈Rainbows Phase🌈🌈, which got me wondering where the convention of a 7-color rainbow came from
Short answer appears to be Isaac Newton’s Opticks published in 1706, but the story of how it became widespread & socially engrained seems to be longer and more complicated
Short answer appears to be Isaac Newton’s Opticks published in 1706, but the story of how it became widespread & socially engrained seems to be longer and more complicated
September 18, 2026 at 12:56 PM
One of my daughters is in a 🌈🌈Rainbows Phase🌈🌈, which got me wondering where the convention of a 7-color rainbow came from
Short answer appears to be Isaac Newton’s Opticks published in 1706, but the story of how it became widespread & socially engrained seems to be longer and more complicated
Short answer appears to be Isaac Newton’s Opticks published in 1706, but the story of how it became widespread & socially engrained seems to be longer and more complicated
Spotted at Ion Opticks booth🤣 yeah, I am at #HUPO2025. Let’s chat :)
#HUPO2025 is off to a flying start, with last night’s welcome reception packed with energy and engaging conversations - as well as our largest-ever delegation on the ground here in Toronto.
Drop by booth 603 to meet us and see what’s new.
Drop by booth 603 to meet us and see what’s new.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Spotted at Ion Opticks booth🤣 yeah, I am at #HUPO2025. Let’s chat :)
Early modern typeface is a gag sometimes 🤣
October 8, 2023 at 6:18 AM
Early modern typeface is a gag sometimes 🤣
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November 7, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Newton's Rainbow
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.
library.si.edu/exhibition/c...
Opticks @ PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504
#science
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.
library.si.edu/exhibition/c...
Opticks @ PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504
#science
April 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Newton's Rainbow
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.
library.si.edu/exhibition/c...
Opticks @ PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504
#science
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors.
library.si.edu/exhibition/c...
Opticks @ PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33504
#science
Anyone with a library endowment fund who doesn't know what to do with it? First edition of Opticks for sale!
August 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Anyone with a library endowment fund who doesn't know what to do with it? First edition of Opticks for sale!
Also she taught Newton’s Opticks so I made some ridiculously small diagrams in her open book.
#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics
#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Also she taught Newton’s Opticks so I made some ridiculously small diagrams in her open book.
#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics
#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics
So here are the dates: Grimaldi - 1665. Newton's "New Theory about Light & Colours" - 1672. Newton's Opticks - 1704. No feathers anywhere! But in Opticks 2nd Edition 1718, we find a brief paragraph inserted describing colours and fringes from feathers & ribbons (red mark in second image).
May 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
So here are the dates: Grimaldi - 1665. Newton's "New Theory about Light & Colours" - 1672. Newton's Opticks - 1704. No feathers anywhere! But in Opticks 2nd Edition 1718, we find a brief paragraph inserted describing colours and fringes from feathers & ribbons (red mark in second image).
I hadn't seen this before - some great details. A telescope and Newton's Opticks. The Black servant carrying 'Dr Taylor On Sight' (anyone know that?). The upset cats. Shame we can't see the magic lantern itself (or would that spoil the magic?) #histsci
November 20, 2023 at 9:43 PM
I hadn't seen this before - some great details. A telescope and Newton's Opticks. The Black servant carrying 'Dr Taylor On Sight' (anyone know that?). The upset cats. Shame we can't see the magic lantern itself (or would that spoil the magic?) #histsci
This 1832 book printed in London is an early print example of the ROYGBIV acronym, but you see it's still presented in the context of a discourse about Newton's 1704 Opticks treatise
www.google.com/books/editio...
www.google.com/books/editio...
Library of Useful Knowledge
www.google.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:37 PM
This 1832 book printed in London is an early print example of the ROYGBIV acronym, but you see it's still presented in the context of a discourse about Newton's 1704 Opticks treatise
www.google.com/books/editio...
www.google.com/books/editio...
Reading a section of Newton's "Opticks", I think he should have enlisted ChatGPT to help him with his spelling.
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reading a section of Newton's "Opticks", I think he should have enlisted ChatGPT to help him with his spelling.
Newton’s Opticks, which she taught, to the book she has in her hand.
When employed by the University of Bologna, became the first salaried female university instructor. Eventually she was their highest paid employee. She was the first woman admitted to the Bologna Academy of Sciences, 1 of Italy’s
When employed by the University of Bologna, became the first salaried female university instructor. Eventually she was their highest paid employee. She was the first woman admitted to the Bologna Academy of Sciences, 1 of Italy’s
Lino Block Print of Italian Enlightenment Physicist Laura Bassi - Etsy
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September 23, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Newton’s Opticks, which she taught, to the book she has in her hand.
When employed by the University of Bologna, became the first salaried female university instructor. Eventually she was their highest paid employee. She was the first woman admitted to the Bologna Academy of Sciences, 1 of Italy’s
When employed by the University of Bologna, became the first salaried female university instructor. Eventually she was their highest paid employee. She was the first woman admitted to the Bologna Academy of Sciences, 1 of Italy’s