1572 IBN AL-HAYTHAM, Hasan (ALHAZEN) (965 – 1040); RISNER, Friedrich (1533 – 1580); WITELO ( ERAZMUS CIOŁEK WITELO) (1230 – 1300)

Opticae thesaurus: Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi; Eiusdem liber De Crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus. Edited by Friedrich Risner.

The Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age Alhazen made significant contributions to the principles of optics and the theory of visual perception in his Opticae thesaurus. Risner's edi…

GMN 10937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13133

1613 D'AGUILON, François (1567 – 1617)

Opticorum libri sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles.

This work, beautifully printed by the Plantin-Moretus Press, includes an engraved title page and illustrations heading each chapter by Peter Paul Rubens. It contains one of the first studies of binocular vision. Digit…

GMN 13260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15526

1802 YOUNG, Thomas (1773 – 1829)

On the theory of light and colours.

Young, the “Father of physiological optics”, established the wave theory of light, explaining the phenomena of interference and dispersion.

GMN 1488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2529

1845 MACKENZIE, William (1791 – 1868)

On the vision of objects on and in the eye.

An introduction to the then little-known subject of catoptrics.

GMN 1504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2583

1867 HELMHOLTZ, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821 – 1894)

Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.

Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.

GMN 1513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2606

2021 DILAURA, David L.

Bibliotheca Opticoria 1475-1925: A library on the history of our understanding of light and vision.

GMN 13724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16008