Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535-1615): A Reassessment

1. Introduction.- 2. A theater of experiments: Giambattista Della Porta and the scientific culture of Renaissance Naples.- 3. Giambattista Della Porta: A magician or an optician?.- 4. Optical diagrams as "paper tools": Della Porta's analysis of biconvex lenses from De refractione to De telescopio.- 5. Giambattista Della Porta's theory of vision in De refractione of 1593: Sources, problems, implications.- 6. Magi from the north: Instruments of fire and light in the early seventeenth century.- 7. Using invariances in geometrical diagrams: Della Porta, Kepler and Descartes on refraction.- 8. Francesco Maurolico, Giambattista Della Porta and their theories on refraction.-9. Conclusion: A reassessment

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Early modern optics;History of lenses and mirrors;Natural magic;Illustrations and experiments;Giambattista Della Porta