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

A painting portraying renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli

A collection of texts that describes various alchemical processes.

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…

A commentary of Dioscorides Materia Medica translated in to Italian, includes detailed text and images that portray the natural world of the Eastern World as seen by Dioscorides, and its usage in healing of diseases. Includes Mattioli's own research…

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.

Raphael uses color, light and shadow in a way that shows he had a clear understanding of optical theories. The fresco shows a shift toward naturalism within art as more artists were beginning to understand optics and the role they play within art.

This painting shows da Vinci's theories of optics being put to use. He was one of the first painters to use optics in order to trick the viewer's eye.

This is an image that illustrates all phases of the Great Work or Magnum Opus. The crow represents Nigredo, the peacock represents Cauda Pavonis, the pheonix represents Rubedo. The man and woman symbolize duality. The circle at the bottom suggests…