AGUILON, François d' (1567-1617). Opticorum libri sex, Philosophis iuxta ac Mathematicis utiles . Antwerp: Plantin, 1613. 2° (348 x 230mm). Half title. Engraved title, six engraved vignettes by Theodor Galle after Rubens, numerous wood-cut diagrams, woodcut printer's device at end. (Some browning, occasionally heavy.) Old vellum (repair to lower part of spine, recased, later endpapers). FIRST EDITION of a 'master treatise' on optics: a synthesis of the works of Euclid, Alhazen, Roger Bacon, Kepler and others. 'The sixth book on orthographic, stereographic, and scenographic projections, remains important in the history of science.' DSB .
AGUILON, François d' (1567-1617). Opticorum libri sex, Philosophis iuxta ac Mathematicis utiles . Antwerp: Plantin, 1613. 2° (348 x 230mm). Half title. Engraved title, six engraved vignettes by Theodor Galle after Rubens, numerous wood-cut diagrams, woodcut printer's device at end. (Some browning, occasionally heavy.) Old vellum (repair to lower part of spine, recased, later endpapers). FIRST EDITION of a 'master treatise' on optics: a synthesis of the works of Euclid, Alhazen, Roger Bacon, Kepler and others. 'The sixth book on orthographic, stereographic, and scenographic projections, remains important in the history of science.' DSB .
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