Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On seeing the stars) : a critical edition of Oresme's treatise on optics and atmospheric refraction Oresme, Nicole | Burton, Dan 2007 Medieval and early modern science, 1567-8393 ( Serie ) Leiden ; Boston : Brill Englisch | Latein 9789047410898 Abstract

In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.