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