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Optical magic in the late Renaissance : Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593 /

"This volume includes the original Latin text of Della Porta's "De Refractione" with English translation. Della Porta's volume explored optics at the time of the late Renaissance."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615 (Author)
Other Authors: Smith, Mark, 1960 May 10- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Introduction in English.
Published: Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] : American Philosophical Society Press, [2019]
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, pt. 1.
Subjects:
Porta, Giambattista della, > approximately 1535-1615. > De refractione optices parte.
Optics > Early works to 1800.
Refraction > Early works to 1800.
Vision > Early works to 1800.
Light > Early works to 1800.
Light.
Optics.
Refraction.
Vision.
Early works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The making of De Refractione
  • Giambattista Della Porta : a biographical sketch
  • The genesis of De Refractione
  • Della Porta's textual sources
  • The making of this edition and translation
  • The problem of sources
  • The Latin edition and English translation
  • Della Porta's optical analysis in De Refractione
  • The physical account of refraction
  • The workings of sight
  • Visual illusion and visual dysfunction
  • Rainbows and other meteorological appearances
  • De Refractione in historical content
  • Latin text
  • English translation
  • Biographical sketches
  • Primary sources for the text.