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Title page from Vitello's De Natura
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
2007.940
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
Black and white photograph reproducing title page from a rare first printed edition (1535) of Vitello's [Per optikes] De natura, ratione et proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum., originally written circa 1270. Includes imagery of a burning glass focusing the sun's rays, a rainbow, a man viewing his upside-down reflection in a mirror and a ray of vision emanating from a man's eye. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.
2007.940