pecham john (21 resultados)

Hardcover. Cloth,

Condición: New.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. First English edition of 'the most widely read and cited of all medieval works on optics'; original Latin text with translation on opposite pages. Pecham lectured at Oxford & Paris and eventually became Archbishop of Canterbury, and was actively involved in assimilating newly discovered ancient Greek and Islamic science into European society. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; #14 in the publisher's series on medieval science. Corners bumped, light general wear, price-clipped jacket edgeworn, particularly at the head of the spine, some scuffs & light tanning, heavier to the spine Text clean; xvii, 300 pages, index, bibliography, notes, figures; biographical sketch of the author, essays on the 'Perspectiva', notes on the manuscripts and printed versions used. Size: Quarto.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 37 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condición: New. pp. 37.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. University of Wisconsin Press, 1970; no additional printings indicated; xvi, 300, [2 ads]pp. Peckham's (here called Pecham) Perspectiva Communis in the original Latin, with English translation on facing pages. Edited with an introduction, English translation, and critical notes by David C. Lindberg. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear, faint foxing to edges of gray cloth boards, black titling remains bold; very light foxing to edges of page block; text very good throughout. Edges of unclipped dust jacket are foxed with light wear; faint evidence of damp-staining around bottom edge of front panel and over spine, not apparent on book beneath; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Cloth, dw sl rubbed & frayed.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 110 pp; 18 figs. Original printed wrappers. Very Good. Contains the Latin text. Franciscan Institute Publications, Text Series No. 16.

LVII + 160pp., in the series "Biblioteca di Studi Francescani" volume I, text in Latin, 25cm., original softcover, pages still uncut, two small stamps, good condition, rare, F106971.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 25 x 17 cm. Octavo. xvii 300pp [1]. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Parallel text in English and Latin of Peacham's Middle Ages treatise "Perspectiva communis". Jacket is worn with chipping and a closed tear to the spoine and a piece out of the back of the jacket and some toning. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Date written on front free endpaper. Toning to the cloth at the spine and edges.

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Orig. full cloth. XVII,300 pp., textdiagrams.

Small folio, 20 leaves. With the final errata leaf, large woodcut on title depicting a master and his students and with Sessa?s cat and mouse device beneath, some fine woodcut initials, and 77 woodcut diagrams in the margins. Small repair to upper outer corner of last leaf. Modern limp vellum with ties, in a black morocco solander box. A fine and large copy. Bookplate of David L. DiLaura. A handsome early edition of this classic work on optics, which was the most influential text on the subject for three hundred years. Pecham endeavoured to reconcile all the available authorities ? Aristotle, Euclid, Augustine, al-Kindi, Ibn Rushd, Grosseteste, Bacon, but most of all, Ibn al-Haytham or Alhazen. This is the first edition to be edited by Luca Gaurico (1476?1558), the expatriate Neapolitan scholar who also edited the works of Archimedes and Ptolemy. ?The work on which Pecham?s fame has chiefly rested is the Perspectiva Communis, probably written between 1277 and 1279 during Pecham?s professorship at the papal curia. In the first book Pecham discussed the propagation of light and color, the anatomy and physiology of the eye, the act of visual perception, physical requirements for vision, the psychology of vision, and the errors of direct vision. In Book II he discussed vision by reflected rays and presented a careful and sophisticated analysis of image formation by reflection. Book III was devoted to the phenomena of refraction, the rainbow, and the Milky Way? ?Pecham?s optical system included significantly more than a theory of direct vision. He briefly discussed the doctrine of species; treated at length the propagation of rays; and developed a theory to explain how solar radiation, when passing through noncircular apertures, gives rise to circular images. He expressed the full law of reflection and applied it to image formation by plane, spherical, cylindrical, and conical mirrors; in this analysis he revealed an implicit understanding of the nature of the focal point of a concave mirror? ?The Perspectiva Communis was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century, and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject? (DSB). Probably the third or fourth edition (an inferior edition was published in Leipzig also in 1504); there were two incunable editions. DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 8: ?This?edition is particularly interesting and important.? See Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science, II, 205.

4to, ff. 47, (1) blank. Oval woodcut Jesuit device on title, woodcut initial and headpiece, diagrams in the text. Old vellum (edges and spine repaired), new pastedowns and front free endpaper. Giovanni Battista Borelli?s copy, inscribed on the title ?Ex lib. Borelli? and the price paid in the same(?) hand. A late edition of this classic work on optics, which was the most influential text on the subject for three hundred years, and the work on which Pecham?s fame has chiefly rested. Written between 1277 and 1279, ?the Perspectiva Communis was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century, and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject? (DSB). ?This is the second edition of Pascal DuHamel?s slight editing of, and commentary on, Georg Hartmann?s edition of Peckham?s optics textbook, with some additional woodcut figures in the text. This is essentially a reprinting of the edition of 1556, save that it does not include Hartmann?s preface of 1542. The periodic appearance of Peckham?s Perspectiva Communis demonstrates its continued use as a textbook on optics in the Renaissance up to the time of Kepler? (DiLaura). DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 35.

8vo, (viii) + 48 leaves. Woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams in the text. Light foxing throughout. 18th century French mottled calf (joints rubbed, head of spine missing, foot of spine and tips of corners worn, upper joint cracking at foot), marbled endpapers, red edges. Early signature of Jo. Ant. Girardi and the name Fontanini on title; bookplates of Charles Verzon and David L. DiLaura. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Pecham?s classic work on optics, translated and with an added commentary by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci using Hartmann?s edition of 1542. This was also the first translation into any vernacular language and made Pecham?s work available to a wider audience. ?Gallucci?s glosses feature examples taken from everyday life? The long section on mirrors discusses the reflections of colors, the angles of incidence, transparency, the function of lead on glass mirrors, mirrors made of iron or diamond, spherical or plain or shaped like a column, and the appearance of images on broken mirrors? (DiLaura). Pecham?s book was written just over three hundred years before this translation appeared, and was the most influential text on the subject throughout that time. DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 44. Pecham is identified as ?Archbishop John of Canterbury? in the title.

4to, 4 leaves (the last bank), 43 leaves. Without the final blank leaf l4 but with 18 other blank leaves bound in at the end. Woodcut device on title, two woodcut initials and headpieces, numerous woodcut diagrams, text printed in italics. 17th century English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments and with red morocco label. A nice copy. Signature of W. Patten 1557 in upper corner of title, undoubtedly the first owner of this copy and possibly William Patten (d. 1598), author and government official; bookplates of the Turner Collection at Keele University, and David L. DiLaura. Pecham?s textbook of optics, the principal work on the subject from when it was written in 1279 until the end of the sixteenth century, is here edited with a commentary by Pascal Duhamel, who added new figures for the text. Duhamel, who was mathematician to the French king, used Georg Hartmann?s edition of 1542 which became the standard.

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Condición: New. Print on Demand pp. 37.

Condición: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 37.