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'Shapiro's magnificent edition will remain a precious tool for anyone working on Newton's thought and times.' Niccolo Guicciardini, Metascience
'Shapiro's magnificent edition will remain a precious tool for anyone working on Newton's thought and times.' Niccolo Guicciardini, Metascience
'These two volumes are the fruit of a formidable body of meticulous scholarly research into Newton's surviving optical writings by Alan E. Shapiro, extending back over many years … I warmly congratulate Professor Shapiro on his splendid achievement, over many years, in finally laying before us the contents of Newtons Optical Papers.' Allan Chapman, The Observatory
Alan E. Shapiro has written widely on the history of optics, and on Isaac Newton. He is the author of Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection (Cambridge, 1993). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as President of the International Academy of the History of Science.