KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). Dioptrice seu Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, Augsburg: typis Davidis Franci, 1611, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, woodcut diagrams (small perforation affecting 4 letters of title, stamp on verso of title and accession number at foot of following leaf), old vellum (slightly snagged at head, small John Crerar blind stamp on front cover and shelf-mark on spine). [Brunet III, 653; Caspar 40; Honeyman 1788; Zinner 4320]

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KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). Dioptrice seu Demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter Conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, Augsburg: typis Davidis Franci, 1611, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, woodcut diagrams (small perforation affecting 4 letters of title, stamp on verso of title and accession number at foot of following leaf), old vellum (slightly snagged at head, small John Crerar blind stamp on front cover and shelf-mark on spine). [Brunet III, 653; Caspar 40; Honeyman 1788; Zinner 4320]

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FINE COPY of an important work in which Kepler explains the theory of refraction by lenses, enlarges his sytem of geometrical and instrumental optics, and expounds the principle of the inverting telescope.

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