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Part I
THE PREHISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The history of the camera obscura
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Professor E. Wiedemann in j. M. Eder's jahrbuchfur Photographie, 19ro, p. 12.
2 Roger Bacon, Perspecti11a, Combach's edition, Frankfurt, 1614, p. 166.
3 Joannis Pisanais [de Peckham], Perspectiva vu/go communis appellata rationes visus in radiationibus
ac lineis visualibus, 38 11., Leipzig, 1504, Part I, prop. 5.
4 MS. no. 728 l, folio 143, at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. First translated and published
by E. Littre in Histoire litteraire de la France, vol. xxv, Paris, l 869.
5 Theoricae novae planetaru111 Georgii Purbachii Germani ab Erasmo Reinholdo auctae, Wittenberg,
1542, pp. 131-2.
6 Gemma-Frisius, De radio astronomico et geometrico liber, Antwerp and Louvain, 1 ' 545, p. J2.
7 Giorgio Vasari, Lives 0:.f the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Everyman's edit;on, 1927, vol. i,
p. 347.
8 Giorgio Vasari, Vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti, Milan, 1807-11, vol. v, p. 81.
9 Gainsborough's apparatus and glass paintings were reproduced in The Illustrated London
News, 20 Jan. 1934. They are at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
1 0 MS. in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, with a diagram on folio 337, recto a.
1 1 MS. in the Institut de France, Paris, folio 8.
12 Venturi, Essai sur /es ouvrages physico-mathematiques de Leonard de Vinci, Paris, 1797.
13 Vitruvius, De architectura libri dece, traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati, Como, 1 52 l, book i,
leaf 23, verso.
14 Hieronymi Cardani, De Subtilitate libri xxi, Nuremberg, 1550. In book iv, p. ro7.
15 Jo. Baptista Porta, 1'vfagiae natural is, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium, libri iiii, Naples, 15 58.
1 6 Jo. Baptista Porta, Magiae naturalis libri xx, Naples, 1589.
17 Natural Magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitaine : in twenty books, published by Thomas
Young and Samuel Speed, London, 1658, pp. 363 et seq. Second English edition published
by John Wright, London, 1669. The first description in English of the camera obscura
(based on Porta) is contained in Henry van Etten's [pseud. for Claude Mydorge] Mathematical/
Recreations, London, 1633, Problem II, pp. 6-9, with two small illustrations.
This was an amended edition with critical comments by W. Oughtred of an earlier work
by Jean Leurechon, Examen du li11re des recreations mathematiques, Paris, 1624.
18 Daniele Barbaro, La Pratica de/la perspettiva, Venice, 1 568, chap. v, p. 192.
1 9 Ignatio Danti, La prospetti11a di Euclide, Florence, 1573 .
2 0 Jo. Batistae Benedicti, Di11ersarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber, Turin,
I 58 5, p. 270.
2' Daniel Schwenter, Deliciae physico-mathematicae, Nuremberg, 1636, p. 255. Posthumously
published.
22 Kaspar Schott, Magia universalis naturae et artis, Herbipoli (Wiirzburg), 1657, p. 87.
23 Friedrich Risner, Opticae, posthumously published, Kassel, 1606.