Baruch Spinoza
Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution)
Traditional attribution
Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution)
Stelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog
A short treatise of geometrical optics that calculates mathematically the formation of the rainbow from the refraction of light in water drops. It was published together with the Calculation of Chances. Modern critical editions include it among the doubtful works.
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Authorship note
An anonymous booklet published in The Hague in 1687 by Levyn van Dyck; its attribution to Spinoza, proposed in the nineteenth century, is disputed: some identify it with the lost Treatise on the Rainbow; others reject it.
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Baruch Spinoza
Stelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog
The Conscious LibraryStelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog
Levyn van Dyck, La Haya, 1687
Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 1677
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect · 1677
- Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being · 1660
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy · 1663
- Metaphysical Thoughts · 1663
- Compendium of Hebrew Grammar · 1677
- Letters · 1677
- Posthumous Works · 1677
- Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost) · 1656
- Treatise on the Rainbow (lost) · 1676
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Calculation of Chances (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Treatise of the Three Impostors (spurious) · 1719
- Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza · 1705
- Spinoza: A Life (biography by Steven Nadler) · 1999
- The Collected Works of Spinoza (ed. Edwin Curley) · 1985
- Spinoza: Complete Works (trans. Samuel Shirley) · 2002
- Spinoza Opera (ed. Carl Gebhardt) · 1925
- Opere (ed. Filippo Mignini) · 2007
Sources
- Wikipedia (en), «Baruch Spinoza»; y (es), «Baruch Spinoza».
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