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    Vitello (Polish: Witelon; German: Witelo; c. 1230 – 1280/1314) was a Polish friar, theologian, natural philosopher and an important figure in the history...
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    property of the luminous body, rejecting the "forms" of Ibn al-Haytham and Witelo as well as the "species" of Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste and Johannes...
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    Proclus, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), Omar Khayyám, Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Witelo, Gersonides, Alfonso, and later Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, John Wallis...
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  • Difficilium, also known as De Intelligentiis. This was originally attributed to Witelo. It was published as Adam's in 1908 but in the 1930s the question of this...
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    arguments backed by the writing of Alhazen and Aristotle. In the 1270s, Witelo considered the possibility of light travelling at infinite speed in vacuum...
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    influential in Europe. Among those Ibn al-Haytham is thought to have inspired are Witelo, John Peckham, Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes and Johannes...
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  • Edda written in Codex Regius, including Hávamál and Völwpá c. 1270–1278 – Witelo – Perspectiva 1274 Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla – Ginnat Egoz (Garden of...
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    around 1200 A.D. and further summarised and expanded on by the Polish monk Witelo making it a standard text on optics in Europe for the next 400 years. In...
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  • influence on its development among later European geometers, including Witelo, Levi ben Gerson, Alfonso, John Wallis and Saccheri. All of these early...
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  • the mathematician John Campanus, the Silesian naturalist and physician Witelo, and the astronomer Henri Bate of Mechlin, who dedicated to William his...
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    The same law was also investigated by Ptolemy and in the Middle Ages by Witelo, but due to lack of adequate mathematical instruments (i.e. trigonometric...
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  • first European attempt to prove the postulate on parallel lines—made by Witelo, the Polish scientists of the 13th century, while revising Ibn al-Haytham's...
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    and larger on the horizon. Through works by Roger Bacon, John Pecham and Witelo based on Alhazen's explanation, the Moon illusion gradually came to be accepted...
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    Lindberg, David (1971) "Lines of Influence in Thirteenth-Century Optics: Bacon, Witelo, and Pecham" Speculum 46(1) (Jan., 1971), pp. 66-83, via JSTOR...
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  • paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars opticae traditur (Supplements to Witelo, in which the optical part of astronomy is treated) as cited in Smith, A...
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    apparent distance. Through additional works (by Roger Bacon, John Pecham, Witelo, and others) based on Ibn al-Haytham's explanation, the Moon illusion came...
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    Zbrzyzny, SLD-UP Henry II the Pious (1196/1207–1241), High Duke of Poland Witelo (1230–died 1280–1314), philosopher and scientist Bolesław II the Bald (1220–1278)...
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    PMC 10062279. PMID 36995569. Johannes Kepler (1604) Paralipomena to Witelo whereby The Optical Part of Astronomy is Treated (Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena...
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  • part of the British NHS Foundation Trust. 1266–1308 Duns Scotus c. 1270 – Witelo wrote Perspectiva, a work on optics containing speculations on psychology...
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    S2CID 145493641. Gedzelman, Stanley David (1989). "Did Kepler's Supplement to Witelo Inspire Descartes' Theory of the Rainbow?". Bulletin of the American Meteorological...
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    his treatise Ad Vitellionem paralipomena [Emendations (or Supplement) to Witelo] (1604), Kepler explained how eyeglass lenses compensate for the distortions...
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    optics was developed by fourteenth century scholastics such as Bacon, Witelo, Ockham and Pecham following Arabian models, in particular, those of Alhazen's...
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    Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham, and Witelo (similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo...
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  • volcanologist, cinematographer, writer and French Cabinet minister Andrzej Trautman Witelo, philosopher, medieval optics August Witkowski Stanley Wojcicki Mieczysław...
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  • philosophical theories. Maimonides described rabies and belladonna intoxication. Witelo is considered a precursor of perception psychology. His Perspectiva contains...
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    translations, played a significant role in inspiring notable individuals such as Witelo, John Peckham, Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes, and Johannes...
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    Werner (1468–1522) – priest, mathematician, astronomer, and geographer Witelo (c. 1230 – after 1280, before 1314) – friar, physicist, natural philosopher...
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  • properties of transparent objects in his treatise Opus Majus. 1270 (approx) — Witelo writes Perspectiva — "Optics" incorporating much of Kitab al-Manazir. 1285–1300...
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    the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year uncertain). Witelo translates Alhazen's 200-year-old treatise on optics, Kitab al-Manazir,...
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    Moon appears far and large. Through works by Roger Bacon, John Pecham, and Witelo based on Ibn al-Haytham's explanation, the Moon illusion gradually came...
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