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Opticks logo #21000 Opticks is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. (A scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706.) The book analyses the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color m...
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Opticks logo #21000[software] Opticks is a remote sensing application that supports imagery, video (motion imagery), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, and other types of remote sensing data. Opticks supports processing remote sensing video in the same manner as it supports imagery, which differentiates it from other remote sensin...
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Opticks logo #21003(from the article `Newton, Sir Isaac`) ...optics as the initial topic; during the following three years (1670–72), his lectures developed the essay `Of Colours` into a form which was later ... ...discovery of laws of macroscopic action that could be accounted for by microscopic forces. Here the seminal work was not the Pr...
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