Optics
Perspectiva (De natura, ratione & proiectione radiorum visûs, luminum, colorum atque formarum)
Latin
Witelo c. 1270-1278 · published 1551
610 pages
First Complete Translation
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
Witelo's 'Perspectiva' (Optics) consists of ten books. Extensive catalog searches reveal that only Books 1, 2, 3, and 5 have been translated into English (primarily in the 'Studia Copernicana' series). No complete English translation of the entire ten-book work exists.
Related translations found:
Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Primus, trans. Sabetai Unguru (1977) [partial]
Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Secundus et Liber Tertius, trans. Sabetai Unguru (1991) [partial]
Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Quintus, trans. A. Mark Smith (1983) [partial]
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About This Book
opticsnatural philosophymathematicsnatural-philosophyastronomy
Witelo treats vision as a precise physical interaction between light and the human eye, grounded in rigorous Euclidean geometry. Readers will discover how mathematical proofs define the mechanics of light, the architecture of our sight, and the origins of optical illusions.
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