Here we present a selection of queries that are particularly interesting because they anticipated many problems that would have been under careful study for more than two centuries after the publication of the Opticks, and that received a comprehensive account only in the twentieth century, within the framework of modern theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity. They are not only about optics several branches of physics are touched, indicating the topics that, according to Newton, were the most important to be investigated in the immediate future. At the end of his Opticks treatise (1704) Sir Isaac Newton added a series of thirty-one queries in order to introduce a list of topics that were at the boundaries of the physics of that time.
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