Perspectiva in qua, quæ ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, neruose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant … Edited by Johann Combach. [Bound with:] Specula mathematica: in qua, de specierum multiplicatione, earundemque in inferioribus virtute agitur: liber, omnium scientiarum studiosis apprime utilis … Edited by Johann Combach.
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..... More
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