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- Title
Baroque Optics and Luis de Góngora's Polifemo.
- Authors
Vincent, Robert Hudson
- Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on topics related to baroque optics and poetry such as "Polifemo," by Luis de Góngora. Topics mentioned include the connections of contemporary Spanish poetry and baroque visual culture, the sine law of refraction discovered by European Thomas Harriot, and the concept of refraction, according to mathematician Johannes Kepler.
- Subjects
POLIFEMO (Poem); GONGORA y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627; VISUAL culture; HARRIOT, Thomas; REFRACTION (Optics); KEPLER, Johannes, 1571-1630
- Publication
MLN, 2018, Vol 133, Issue 2, p224
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2018.0016