De Radiis Visus Et Lucis In Vitris Perspectivus Et Itide Tractatus In Quo Inter Alia Ostenditur

by Marco Antonio De Dominis Marko Antonije

$38,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Tomasso Baglioni, 1611. First edition, extremely rare, of this important early work on the optics of the telescope and related optical phenomena, and containing the first essentially correct theory of the rainbow to be published. Dominis and Galileo were both teaching mathematics and physics in Padua at the same time, and it is almost certain that they knew each other. The present work has the same publisher as

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