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Athanasius Kircher A Jesuit polymath (1602–1680) known for his works on light and optics.	279
Marcus Marci Johannes Marcus Marci (1595–1667), a Bohemian physician and scientist who studied the refraction of light.	286
De la Chambre Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594–1669), a French physician and philosopher.	288
Isaac Vossius A Dutch scholar (1618–1689) who wrote on the nature of light.	295
Franciscus Maria Grimaldi An Italian Jesuit (1618–1663) who discovered the diffraction of light.	306
Robert Boyle An Anglo-Irish natural philosopher (1627–1691) famous for his experiments on air and color.	311
Hook Robert Hooke (1635–1703), an English scientist who proposed a wave theory of light.	322
Nicolaus Mallebranche Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), a French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher.	324
Johann Christoph Sturm A German philosopher and mathematician (1635–1703).	328
Funccius Johann Caspar Funck (1680–1729), author of a work on the color of the sky.	329
Lazarus Nüguet A French Jesuit mathematician (1639–1694).	331
Nüguet’s System of Colors	332
Reflections on the preceding treatise	343
Supplement of brief notes	346
Transition to the history of coloring Colorit: the use or distribution of colors in a painting	349
History of coloring since the restoration of art Refers to the Renaissance and the revival of classical artistic principles.	350 — 377