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Plate from Celestino Cominale, Anti-Newtonianismi pars prima

Celestino Cominale’s Anti-Newtonianismi pars prima (Naples, 1754–56)
was typical of the passionate, though not particularly well-informed,
eighteenth-century assaults on Newton’s optical theories. – Science,
Industry and Business Library, NYPL
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