Ad vitellionem paralipomen quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur; Potissimùm de artificiosa observatione et aestematione diametrorum deliquiorumq[ue] solis & lunae. Cum exemplis insignium eclipsium. Habes hoc libro, lector, inter alia multa nova, tractatum luculentum de modo visionis, & humorum oculi usu, contra opticos & anatomicos.
Frankfurt: Claudius Marnius & heirs of Johannes Aubrius, 1604. First edition, an excellent copy, of the foundation work of modern optics. “Working within the perspectivist tradition of Alhazen, Roger Bacon, Witelo, John Pecham, and others, Kepler accepts that sight is possible due to rays emitted from visible objects, with these..... More
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