Oculus Hoc Est: Fundamentum Opticum

Title

Oculus Hoc Est: Fundamentum Opticum

Subject

Optics

Description

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.

Creator

Christoph Scheiner

Publisher

Oeniponti (Innsbruck): Daniel Agricola

Date

1619

Contributor

Christoph Scheiner

Language

Latin

Type

text

Identifier

Printed text with woodcuts

Citation

Christoph Scheiner, “Oculus Hoc Est: Fundamentum Opticum,” Art and Science in the Early Modern World, accessed December 21, 2024, http://artandscience.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/137.

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