L Occhiale All Occhio Dioptrica Pratica Dove Si Tratta Della Luce Della Refrattione De Raggi Dell

by Count Carlo Antonio Manzini

$15,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Bologna: per l’herede del Benacci, 1660. First and only edition of this important work on the making of lenses, spectacles, telescopes and microscopes, “the most comprehensive book on the subject” Ilardi, p. 229 . “Seventeenth-century account of dioptrics, dealing with light, refraction, the eye, vision, the invention of spectacles, the making of spectacles and telescopes. The book, which is essentially

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