Optical magic in the late Renaissance
Subtitle: Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593
By: A. Mark Smith
Contributors: Smith, Mark, 1960 May 10- translator, writer of introduction; Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society -- volume 107, part 1; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 107, pt. 1.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781606180716
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Optics; Early works to 1800; Refraction; Vision; Light
Other titles: Giambattista Della Porta's De Refractione of 1593; Refractione of 1593
Work titles: De refractione optices parte
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. Introduction in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The making of De Refractione; title: Giambattista Della Porta : a biographical sketch; title: The genesis of De Refractione; title: Della Porta's textual sources; title: The making of this edition and translation; title: The problem of sources; title: The Latin edition and English translation; title: Della Porta's optical analysis in De Refractione; title: The physical account of refraction; title: The workings of sight; title: Visual illusion and visual dysfunction; title: Rainbows and other meteorological appearances; title: De Refractione in historical content; title: Latin text; title: English translation; title: Biographical sketches; title: Primary sources for the text.