Perspectiva In Qua Quae Ab Aliis Fuse Traduntur Succincte Neruose Ita Pertractantur Ut Omnium

by Roger Bacon

$7,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter for Anton Humm, 1614. First editions of these two rare works on optics by the ‘Doctor Mirabilis’ Roger Bacon 1214/1220-1292 – ‘perspectiva’ for Bacon had a different meaning from today’s ‘perspective’. Bacon’s “skill in mathematics, experimental science and mechanical inventions was so remarkable for his time that … he acquired the reputation … of being a magician”

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