Reflection in Curved and Plane Mirrors

The upper portion of the print shows a stylized, anthropomorphic sun radiating light toward a rectangular framed mirror hung against a sky background. Below, a table with an intricate patterned surface holds three distinct objects: a convex mirror on the left, a flat mirror in the center, and a concave mirror on the right. Floating above each object is a single disembodied human eye, each emitting a straight line representing the line of sight or reflected light rays focused on the surface of the mirrors.

This image is a plate from Robert Fludd’s 'Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris metaphysica, physica, atque technica historia' (1617–1621), illustrating the author’s natural philosophical inquiry into optics and the correspondence between the celestial sun and human perception.