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Optical magic in the late Renaissance : Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593 / A. Mark Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, author.
- Series:
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, pt. 1.
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; volume 107, part 1
- Standardized Title:
- De refractione optices parte
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. De refractione optices parte.
- Porta, Giambattista della.
- Optics--Early works to 1800.
- Optics.
- Refraction--Early works to 1800.
- Refraction.
- Vision--Early works to 1800.
- Vision.
- Light--Early works to 1800.
- Light.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xc, 524 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : American Philosophical Society Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Introduction in English.
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- 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- De Refractione in historical content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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. De refractione optices parte. English.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Smith, Mark, 1960 May 10- author. Optical magic in the late Renaissance
- ISBN:
- 1606180711
- 9781606180716
- OCLC:
- 1056202418
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