John Pecham and the Science of Optics, Perspectiva communis
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Hardcover. Gray cloth, orange & white dust jacket, 300 pp. G+ (DJ has a stripe of tanning along the top edge, along with moderate wear there; dj is corner clipped; rest of book is clean.). Item #147205
ISBN: 0299057305
"With the publication of David C. Lindberg's first English edition of John Pecham's treatise, Perspectiva communis, scholars have available the most widely read and cited of all medieval works on optics. John Pecham (d. 1292) ... was one of the men most actively engaged in the criticism and assimilation of the newly discovered learning of Islam and ancient Greece in the thirteenth century. In the center of the philosophical controversies associated with the new Aristotelianism, Pecham was also interested in the more technical aspects of scientific thought. ... In the Perspectiva communis, Pecham attempted to reconcile all the available authorities on optics and express their conclusions in easily understandable terms." (dj).
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