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Witelo
| German-Polish monk, theologian and scientist; natural philosopher, physicist and mathematician Country: Poland |
Biography of Vitelo
Vitelo, also known as Erazmus Ciolek Witelo, Witelon, Vitellio, Vitello Thuringopolonis, Vitulon, and Erazm Ciołek, was a German-Polish monk, theologian, and scholar.
He was born around 1220-1230 in the village of Borek or Borow in Lower Silesia. His mother was from a Polish knightly family, while his father was a German settler from Thuringia. Vitelo referred to himself as "Thuringorum et Polonorum filius," meaning "son of the people of Thuringia and the Poles."
Vitelo studied at the University of Padua in the 1260s and later moved to Viterbo.
Author: Witelo, active 13th century.He became friends with William of Moerbeke, a translator of Aristotle. Vitelo dedicated his main work in optics, titled "Perspectiva" or "Optics," consisting of 10 books and completed around 1270-1278, to William. This work was heavily influenced by the Arabic scholar Ibn al-Haytham's book