Abstract
Newton's Opticks is a classic of scientific literature which is readily accessible to the general reader and from which his powers of observation, measurement and deduction may be recognized unequivocally. The fourth (1730) edition, last reprinted by Dover Publications in 1979, includes a Preface by I. Bernard Cohen, a Foreword by Albert Einstein and an Introduction by Sir Edmund Whittaker. More recently A. Rupert Hall's All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton's Opticks 1 provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the book, its preparation and subsequent reception. The object of this note is to examine a small but significant part of Newton's work in the Opticks , that of his measurements of the thicknesses of air, water and muscovy glass (i.e. muscovite) films and their corresponding interference colours, which appear in Parts I and II of the second book.
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