Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On seeing the stars) : a critical edition of Oresme's treatise on optics and atmospheric refraction / with an introduction, commentary, and English translation by Dan Burton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part 1 INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY; I. INTRODUCTION; II. NICOLE ORESME'S LIFE AND WORKS; III. THE WRITING OF DE VISIONE STELLARUM: AUTHOR, DATE, TITLES, AND INFLUENCE; IV. OVERVIEW AND COMMENTARY ONORESME'S DE VISIONE STELLARUM; V. MANUSCRIPTS; VI. EDITORIAL PROCEDURES; VII. CITATION LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED OR ALLUDED TO IN ORESME'S DE VISIONE STELLARUM; Part II NICOLE ORESME'S DE VISIONE STELLARUM Latin Critical Edition with English Translation; Nicole Oresme [De Visione Stellarum] [Liber i]; II. NOTES; Part III BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDICES; I. BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDICES
Summary
A translation of "On Seeing the Stars", Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, in which Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve the problem of astronomy, while proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and indexes
