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PECKHAM, John, Archbishop of Canterbury (c.1240-1292). Perspectiva communis, edited by Luca Gaurico. [Venice: Joannes Baptista Sessa, June 1504].
2° (297 x 197mm). Title with large woodcut and Sessa device, woodcut optical diagrams throughout, initials 12-line or smaller. (Light marginal soiling to title and a2, c4-e4 with stain at corner, a few minor stains elsewhere.) Modern vellum with morocco label, red edges (bowed, label rubbed).
SCARCE EARLY EDITION of Peckham's 13th-century treatise on optics, first published in Milan by Petrus de Corneno [1482?]. The propositions show the influence of Roger Bacon, and include the first known description of concave refracting surfaces. Other editions of this widely influential medieval text were published at Leipzig, 1504, and Nuremberg, 1542. Adams P-534; Durling 3579; Honeyman VI, 2435 (variant); cf. Stillwell Science, II 205.
2° (297 x 197mm). Title with large woodcut and Sessa device, woodcut optical diagrams throughout, initials 12-line or smaller. (Light marginal soiling to title and a2, c4-e4 with stain at corner, a few minor stains elsewhere.) Modern vellum with morocco label, red edges (bowed, label rubbed).
SCARCE EARLY EDITION of Peckham's 13th-century treatise on optics, first published in Milan by Petrus de Corneno [1482?]. The propositions show the influence of Roger Bacon, and include the first known description of concave refracting surfaces. Other editions of this widely influential medieval text were published at Leipzig, 1504, and Nuremberg, 1542. Adams P-534; Durling 3579; Honeyman VI, 2435 (variant); cf. Stillwell Science, II 205.
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