A rare edition of Newton’s scientific work, “Optics” is up for auction in London for $500 thousand
“Optics” is up for auction in Forum Auctions for $500 thousand Presentation publication of the scientific work of Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Optics (1704), was put up for sale at the London Auction Forum for £400,000 (almost $500,000).This is stated in the message of the capital trading house. This copy of the book of an English scientist, considered one of the most important in physics, was one of the first six printed ones that Newton personally handed to friends and colleagues.It was donated by an outstanding Englishman to a close friend of the Swiss mathematician Nicola Fatio de Duillet (1664-1753), a member of the Royal Society.A large part of his adult life was