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Peckham, John, -1292, Cardanus, Facius · [Milan : Petrus de Corneno] · 28 pictures

A late fifteenth-century Latin treatise on optics by John Peckham, edited by Facius Cardanus, printed in Milan for scholars and students of perspective and vision. Its pictures are geometric diagrams of rays converging on a sphere and a point, drawn with plain letter labels and straight lines, offering a designer a clear model of ray-based construction and radiating lines.

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