Roger Bacon & the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition & English Translation of Bacon's Perspectiva with Introduction and Not

ISBN-13: 9780198239925 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 528 str.

David C. Lindberg; Roger Bacon

Opis

David Lindberg presents the first critical edition of the text of Roger Bacon's classic work Perspectiva, prepared from Latin manuscripts, accompanied by a facing-page English translation, critical notes, and a full study of the text. Also included is an analysis of Bacon's sources, influence, and role in the emergence of the discipline of perspectiva.

Recenzje

The bibliographic details will convince any well-educated historian that this book should be available in all good libraries. So indeed it should. The advent of microfilm has helped the editor to make full use of many more manuscripts than his predecessors, with consequent benefit to the authority of the resulting text ... for anyone frivolous or serious enough to plunge straight into the main text, it is very good indeed, with scholarly notes providing hand-holds and water wings.