Kepler, Tycho, and the ``Optical part of astronomy: the genesis of Kepler's theory of pinhole images

DOI10.1007/BF00357311zbMath0478.01006MaRDI QIDQ1160614

Stephen Straker

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

pinhole camera

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Related Items (4)

Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus ⋮ Egidius of Baisiu's theory of pinhole images ⋮ Astronomical use of pinhole images in William of Saint-Cloud's Almanach Planetarum (1292) ⋮ Kepler's Optical Part of Astronomy (1604): Introducing the Ecliptic Instrument

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