One of the oldest books in the exhibition is the 1704 first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks, or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light.

Isaac Newton's personal copy of the 1717 second edition of Opticks, ... Based on his theory of color, Newton concluded that refracting telescope lenses would be plagued by chromatic aberrations ...

Isaac Barrow, Newton’s mentor and first Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, appears to have sent letters on his behalf to King Charles II, who at the last minute provided a dispensation for Newton.

Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus and explained optics. ... He continued working with light and color over the next few years and published his findings in "Opticks" in 1704.

Newton replied that it was because “[the Sun] concerned us more” and, as Conduitt described, “laughing added he had said enough for people to know his meaning.” (Sure it was, Isaac.) 14 ...

Isaac Newton’s color wheel (Isaac Newton / Wikimedia) Castel himself has been mostly forgotten, but the idea of a link between music and colors became part of the 19th-century zeitgeist as new ...