Baruch Spinoza
Treatise on the Rainbow (lost)
Manuscript
Treatise on the Rainbow (lost)
Tractatus de iride
A treatise on the optics of the rainbow, consistent with his trade as a lens grinder and with his letters on optics to Hudde and Jelles. Some scholars have proposed identifying it with the anonymous booklet Stelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog (1687), a disputed hypothesis.
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Authorship note
The editors of the Opera posthuma mention it among the unpublished writings; according to Colerus, who learned it from the Van der Spyck family, Spinoza threw it into the fire some six months before his death.
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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
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- 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
- Colerus, Johannes. Korte, dog waaragtige levens-beschryving van Benedictus de Spinosa. Ámsterdam, 1705; trad. francesa «La Vie de B. de Spinosa» (1706), en Œuvres de Spinoza, trad. Émile Saisset, t. II, París, Charpentier, 1861 (Wikisource).
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