The optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535-1615) : a reassessment
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The optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535-1615) : a reassessment
（Archimedes : new studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology, v. 44）
Springer, c2017
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This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics.
Della Porta's groundbreaking book, Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta's scientific achievements are often forgotten. As the contributors argue, his work inspired such great minds as Johanes Kepler and Francis Bacon. After reading this book, researchers, historians, and students will have a better appreciation of this influential scientist. They will also gain a greater understanding of an important period in the history of optics.
Readers will learn about Della Porta's experimental method, a process governed by the protocols, aims, and theoretical assumptions of natural magic. Coverage also discusses the material properties and limitations of optical technology in the early 17th century, based on a recently discovered Dutch spyglass. It also demonstrates how diagrams were instrumental in the discovery of the sine law of refraction.
In addition, the book includes an in-depth analysis of previously untranslated Latin sources. This makes the material useful to historians of optics unfamiliar with the language. More than 70 illustrations complement the text.
目次
1. IntroductionArianna Borrelli
2. A theater of experiments: Giambattista Della Porta and the scientific culture of Renaissance Naples
William Eamon
3. Giambattista Della Porta: A magician or an optician?Yaakov Zik and Giora Hon
4. Optical diagrams as "paper tools": Della Porta's analysis of biconvex lenses from De refractione to De telescopioArianna Borrelli
5. Giambattista Della Porta's theory of vision in De refractione of 1593: Sources, problems, implicationsA. Mark Smith
6. Magi from the north: Instruments of fire and light in the early seventeenth centuryFokko Jan Dijksterhuis
7. Using invariances in geometrical diagrams: Della Porta, Kepler and Descartes on refractionAlbrecht Heeffer
8. Francesco Maurolico, Giambattista Della Porta and their theories on refractionRicardo Belle
9. Conclusion: A reassessmentYaakov Zik and Giora Hon
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