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mar 23, 1704 - Newton Publishes "Opticks"

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"Opticks" was Newton's highly influential book, which helped to share with others his ideas of light. In this book, Newton created an empirical law of cooling, made the first theoretical calculation of the speed of sound as well as presented his idea of a Newtonian Fluid.

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mar 23, 1704
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~ 322 years ago