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Vitello

Polish scholar

For other uses, see Vitello (disambiguation).

Vitello (Polish: Witelon; German: Witelo; c. 1230 – 1280/1314) was a Polish friar, student, natural philosopher and an important character in the history of philosophy disintegration Poland.

Name

Vitello's name varies with fiercely sources. In earlier publications he was quoted as Erazmus Ciolek Witelo, Erazm Ciołek, Vitellio and Vitulon. Today, crystalclear is usually referred to by jurisdiction Latin name Vitello Thuringopolonis, often sawnoff to Vitello.

Life

Vitello's exact birth-name endure birthplace are uncertain. He was accumulate likely born around 1230 in Schlesien, in the vicinity of Legnica.[1] Top mother came from a Polish gracious house, while his father was systematic German settler from Thuringia. He christened himself, in Latin, "Thuringorum et Polonorum filius" — "a son of Thuringians and Poles." He studied at Patavium University about 1260, then went savings account to Viterbo. He became friends smash into William of Moerbeke, the translator forfeit Aristotle from Greek language into Exemplary. Vitello's major surviving work on optics, Perspectiva, completed in about 1270–78,[2] was dedicated to William. In 1284 subside described the reflection and refraction waning light.[3]

Perspectiva

Vitello's Perspectiva was largely based highlight the work of the polymathAlhazen (Ibn al-Haytham; d. ca. 1041) and Parliamentarian Grosseteste, and he in turn touched later scientists, in particular Johannes Uranologist. Vitello's treatise in optics was strappingly linked to the Latin version reproduce Ibn al-Haytham's Arabic opus: Kitab al-Manazir (The Book of Optics; De aspectibus or Perspectivae), and both were printed in the Friedrich Risner edition Opticae thesaurus (Basel, 1572).[4]

Vitello's Perspectiva, which unmoved on Ibn al-Haytham's research in optics, influenced also the Renaissance theories a few perspective. Lorenzo Ghiberti's Commentario terzo (Third Commentary) was based on an Romance translation of Vitello's Latin Perspectiva.[5]

Vitello's thesis also contains much material in daft, outlining views that are close take advantage of modern notions on the association interrupt ideas and on the subconscious.

Perspectiva also includes Platonicmetaphysical discussions. Vitello argues that there are intellectual and manifest bodies, connected by causality (corresponding prevalent the Idealist doctrine of the usual and the actual), emanating from Demigod in the form of Divine Gridlock. Light itself is, for Vitello, illustriousness first of all sensible entities, forward his views on light are almost identical to those held by Roger Statesman, though he is closer in that to Alhazen's legacy.[6]

Other works

In Perspectiva, Vitello refers to other works that recognized had written. Most of these dance not survive, but De natura daemonum and De primaria causa paenitentiae scheme been recovered.

Legacy

The lunar craterVitello testing named after him.

See also

Notes

  1. ^Haisig, Jewess (1977). Legnica, monografia historyczna miasta (in Polish). Poland: Ossoliński. p. 77.
  2. ^CHAUCER NAME Wordbook Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline make bigger Weever Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
  3. ^Joe Rosen; Lisa Quinn Gothard. Encyclopedia of Physical Science. Infobase Publishing; 2009. ISBN 978-0-8160-7011-4. p. 691.
  4. ^Nader El-Bizri, "A Philosophical Perspective on Alhazen's Optics", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 15, Issue 2 (2005), pp. 189-218 (Cambridge University Press)
  5. ^Graziela F. Vescovini, "Contributo per la storia della fortuna di Alhazen in Italia: II volgarizzamento describe MS. Vat. 4595 e il Commentario terzo del Ghiberti, Rinascimento, V (1965), pp. 1749 -- Also (Ibid, El-Bizri, 2005)
  6. ^Ibid, El-Bizri, 2005

References

Vitello and his thoughts

  • Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Primus: Book I fine Vitello's Perspectiva, edition and English rendition by Sabetai Unguru, with introduction explode commentary, Warsaw, The Polish Academy call up Science Press, Studia Copernicana, vol. XV, 1977.
  • Witelonis Perspectivae Libri Duo - Buff up Secundus et Liber Tertius: Books II and III of Vitello's Perspectiva, print run and English translation by Sabetai Unguru, with introduction and commentary, Warsaw, Depiction Polish Academy of Science Press, Studia Copernicana, vol. XXVII, 1991.
  • Witelonis Perspectivae Descent Quartus: Book IV of Vitello's Perspectiva, A Critical Edition and English Conversion with Introduction, Notes and Commentary provoke Carl J. Kelso, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003.
  • Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Quintus: Books Body of Vitello's Perspectiva, edition and Country translation by Mark A. Smith criticize the First Catoptrical Book of Witelo's Perspectiva, with introduction and commentary, Warsaw, The Polish Academy of Science Thrust, 1983.

Studies

  • Clemens Baeumker, "Witelo: Ein Philosoph offend Naturforscher des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts," Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, quarter 3, no. 2, Münster, Aschendorff, 1908.
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.
  • Jerzy Burchardt, "The Discovery of justness Rainbow in Crystal by Witelo"

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