Newton vs. Hooke on the Theory of Colors
A
Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the
University of Cambridge; Containing His New Theory about Light and
Colors: Sent by the Author to the Publisher from Cambridge, Febr. 6.
1671/72; In Order to be Communicated to the R. Society Philosophical
Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 6. (1671), pp. 3075-3087.
Mr.
Isaac Newtons Answer [to Robert Hooke] to Some Considerations upon His Doctrine of Light
and Colors; Which Doctrine Was Printed in Numb. 80. of These Tracts
Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 7. (1672), pp.
5084-5103. (Hooke's original
letter to the Royal Society was not
published until 1757, when Birch included it in his History of the
Royal Society. Evidently, Oldenburg felt the letter was too long
to publish in full and
that Newton conveyed the substance of Hooke's objections in his reply to
them.)
Someone from Paris joins in:
An Extract of a Letter Lately Written by an Ingenious Person from Paris,
Containing Some Considerations upon Mr. Newtons Doctrine of Colors, as
Also upon the Effects of the Different Refractions of the Rays in
Telescopical Glasses, Vol. 8 (1673), pp. 6086-6087
Mr. Newtons Answer to the Foregoing Letter
Further Explaining His Theory of Light and Colors, and Particularly That
of Whiteness; together with His Continued Hopes of Perfecting Telescopes
by Reflections Rather than Refractions, Vol. 8 (1673), pp. 6087-6092
Extracts
of Two Letters, the One of Mr. Newton, Concerning the Number of Colors,
and the Necessity of Mixing Them All for the Production of White,
&c; the Other, of a Philosopher at Paris, by Way of Answer to the
Former Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 8.
(1673), pp. 6108-6112.