Light -- Symbolic aspects -- Early works to 1800
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Aula Lucis, or, The House of Light: A Discourse Written in the Year 1651 (London: Printed for William Leake, 1652), by Thomas Vaughan (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Light -- Early works to 1800- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646), by Athanasius Kircher (page images in Germany)
- Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light (reprinted from Philosophical Transactions; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1800), by Thomas Young (page images at NIH)
- Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. (10 volumes; 1797 and 1807), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, trans. by James Smith Barr (multiple formats at HathiTrust, archive.org, and Gutenberg)
- Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (London: Printed for H. Herringman, 1664), by Robert Boyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Tratado Instructivo y Práctico Sobre el Arte de la Tintura: Reglas Experimentadas y Metódicas para Tintar Sedas, Lanas, Hilos de Todas Clases y Esparto en Rama (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de Blas Román, 1778), by Luis Fernández
- Dissertation sur la Cause Physique de la Couleur des Negres, de la Qualité de Leurs CHeveux,et de la Degeneration de l'un et de l'Autre (in French; Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap