Section 1: Galileo and Perspective
Works listed here were on display in Bizzell Memorial Library (Fall 2015, Summer-Spring 2016) and also at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Spring 2016).
Galileo, Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610), photograph of Moon engravings
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Euclid, Elements of Geometrie (London, 1570), trans. Henry Billingsley
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Ibn al-Haytham, Opticae thesaurus (Basel, 1572)
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John Peckham, Perspectiva (Paris, 1556)
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Athanasius Kircher, Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Rome, 1646)
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Leon Battista Alberti, “On Painting,” in Opuscoli Morali (Venice, 1568)
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Niccolo Tartaglia, Opere... Nova scientia (Venice, 1606)
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Luca Pacioli, Divina proportione (Venice, 1509)
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Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della Pittura (Paris, 1651), 1st ed
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