NMLP P-041268 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Opticks

Isaac Newton · Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, London · 1704

A complete first issue has 19 folding engraved plates and carries the two Latin mathematical treatises at the end — Tractatus de quadratura curvarum and Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis — which are Newton's first mathematical papers in print; copies lacking the treatises are not the first issue

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041268 for "Opticks" by Isaac Newton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041268, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).