Nicole Oresme on the Nature, Reflection, and Speed of Light
@article{Marshall1981NicoleOO,
title={Nicole Oresme on the Nature, Reflection, and Speed of Light},
author={Peter Marshall},
journal={Isis},
year={1981},
volume={72},
pages={357 - 374},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144035661}
}L ATE MEDIEVAL VISUAL THEORY presents an untidy amalgam of Aristotelian natural philosophy, geometric optics, scholastic metaphysics, and even theology. Modern scholarship has treated each of these medieval categories of thought separately, and it has therefore proved very difficult for the student of medieval visual theory to comprehend his subject fully-that is, both to analyze what the medieval authors who wrote about vision were trying to accomplish, and to discern what sources they drew…
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