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Scheiner was a Jesuit mathematician working in Rome. This treatise describes how the eye sees an inverted image that it somehow is able to flip. Scheiner's descriptions played a large role in the success of Johannes Kepler's theory of vision.

Galileo's Starry Messenger discusses his discoveries in the field of astronomy. These discoveries made it critical to correctly analyze geometrical optics that observations with a telescope were based on.

It has been a debate for centuries whether or not Vermeer used optics to help create more realistic paintings. This work has clear signs of using a camera obscura. Using this device helps him to figure out the size of the people in relation to one…

The title transaltes to A Physico-mathematical Treatment of Light, Colors, and the Rainbow. Grimaldi challenged the principle that the propogation of light occurs in a linear fashion. The text discusses his findings based on experiments he did with…

This treatise discusses the physiology of vision. The work was first presented to the Royal Society in 1681. Briggs' discoveries on the anatomy of the eye are presented

A book on mathematical proportions and their applications to geometry was written in Milan between 1496 and 98 and first published in Venice.

A book on Johannes Kepler's cosmological theory based on the Copernican system. The full title translates to Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe; on the Marvelous Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and…

This painting of a German writing master and his son features a dodecahedron

A treatise studying the five regular solids.

A treatise made to be a manual for artists and architects to incorporate measurement into their work.