Details

Subject(s)

• Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615—De refractione optices parte [Browse]
• Optics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Refraction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Vision—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Light—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Translator

• Smith, Mark, 1960 May 10- [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Smith, Mark, 1960 May 10- [Browse]

Series

• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 107, pt. 1. [More in this series]
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; volume 107, part 1 [More in this series]

Contains

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. De refractione optices parte. English. [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Introduction in English.

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• De Refractione in historical content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.

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Other title(s)

• Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593
• Refractione of 1593

ISBN

• 1606180711 ((alkaline paper))
• 9781606180716 ((alkaline paper))

LCCN

2018037988

OCLC

1056202418

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