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Ioan. Baptistae Portae neap. De refractione optices parte, libri nouem

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615 · 1593 · Neapoli : Ex officina Horatij Saluiani : Apud Io. Iacobum Carlinum, & Antonium Pacem · 54 pictures

A 1593 Neapolitan optics treatise by Giambattista della Porta, printed in Naples for a scholarly readership, with geometric diagrams of refraction and lens geometry. The pictures are line diagrams with lettered points, circles, arcs and rays drawn in plain strokes, offering a designer clean technical schematics showing light paths and construction lines.

Optics

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