Peri optikes in Greek , id est de natura, ratione, & projectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo perspectivam vocant, libri X.

by Witelo

$95,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Nuremberg: Johann Petri, 1535. First edition, rare, a copy with numerous early annotations, of the first comprehensive European treatise on optics, and the first work to contain descriptions of medieval laboratory instruments. Witelo born ca. AD 1230 begins with the geometrical theorems required for the optical demonstrations of the remaining books. He details the essential features of optical systems,

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