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A Compleat System of Opticks (Thoemmes Press - History of Optics; Nicholas J. Wade, Series Editor)
A Compleat System of Opticks - Thoemmes Press - History of Optics; Nicholas J. Wade, Series Editor Author:Robert Smith Robert Smith published his magnum opus, A Compleat System of Opticks, in 1738. It was designed for use as a university textbook, and it proved to be one of the most authoritative surveys of optical theory of the time?an era when optics was a very fertile meeting ground for natural scientists and philosophers.