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HomeScientific and publishing activitiesProjectsCzech Science FoundationThe Age of Peckham: The Role of John Peckham’s Perspectiva communis in the Dissemination and Development of Optical Knowledge, 1279–1542

Investigator: Mgr. Lukáš Líčka, Ph.D.

Provider: Czech Science Foundation

Programme: Standard

Duration: 2024-2026

The project examines the development of optics between John Peckham’s Perspectiva communis (c. 1279) and its printed edition revised by Georg Hartmann (1542). It is based on the hypothesis that Peckham’s treatise played a key role in the dissemination and development of optics.