Book of Optics
Vitello's "Perspectiva" was largely based on the work of the polymath Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham; d. ca. 1041) and in turn influenced later scientists, in particular Johannes Kepler. Vitello's treatise in optics was closely linked to the Latin version of Ibn al-Haytham's Arabic opus: "Kitab al-manazir" ("The Book of Optics"; "De aspectibus" or "Perspectivae"), and both were printed in the Friedrich Risner edition "Opticae Thesaurus" (Basel, 1572).