John Pecham's Perspectiva communis
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John Pecham's *Perspectiva communis* is a foundational 13th-century scholastic treatise on optics that synthesized and transmitted earlier Arabic and Latin theories of vision and light to later medieval and Renaissance thinkers.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pecham's Perspectiva communis Context triple: [European scholastic optics, associatedWork, John Pecham's Perspectiva communis]
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Roger Bacon's Perspectiva
Roger Bacon's Perspectiva is a 13th-century treatise that systematically analyzes vision, light, and optical phenomena within a scholastic and experimental framework, significantly influencing later developments in medieval and Renaissance optics.
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Liber de perspectivis
Liber de perspectivis is a Renaissance treatise on perspective and geometrical optics by the Italian mathematician and scientist Guidobaldo del Monte.
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Perspectiva (perspective treatise)
Perspectiva is a seminal Renaissance treatise on linear perspective by Hans Vredeman de Vries that profoundly influenced architectural drawing and illusionistic space in European art.
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Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva
Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva is a seminal 16th-century architectural treatise by Sebastiano Serlio that systematized Renaissance architectural theory and perspective for widespread use by architects and builders.
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Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pecham's Perspectiva communis Target entity description: John Pecham's *Perspectiva communis* is a foundational 13th-century scholastic treatise on optics that synthesized and transmitted earlier Arabic and Latin theories of vision and light to later medieval and Renaissance thinkers.
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A.
Roger Bacon's Perspectiva
Roger Bacon's Perspectiva is a 13th-century treatise that systematically analyzes vision, light, and optical phenomena within a scholastic and experimental framework, significantly influencing later developments in medieval and Renaissance optics.
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B.
Liber de perspectivis
Liber de perspectivis is a Renaissance treatise on perspective and geometrical optics by the Italian mathematician and scientist Guidobaldo del Monte.
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C.
Perspectiva (perspective treatise)
Perspectiva is a seminal Renaissance treatise on linear perspective by Hans Vredeman de Vries that profoundly influenced architectural drawing and illusionistic space in European art.
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D.
Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva
Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva is a seminal 16th-century architectural treatise by Sebastiano Serlio that systematized Renaissance architectural theory and perspective for widespread use by architects and builders.
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E.
Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
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