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Footnote: Perhaps the likeliest instance of borrowing occurs in Perspectiva communis III, prop. 12, for which Pecham may have drawn from Ptolemy's account of atmospheric refraction in V, 24-31; but even in this case the evidential support is slim. See David C. Lindberg, ed., and trans., John Pecham and the Science of Optics: Perspectiva Communis (1970) pp. 222-225
• A. Mark Smith (Tr.) Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics with Introduction and Commentary (1996)
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Witelo seems to have used the Optics more sparingly than Bacon, and this trend continues with John Pecham, whose Perspetiva communis reveals no unequivocal borrowings and has only a handful of possible ones.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Witelo seems to have used the Optics more sparingly than Bacon, and this trend continues with John Pecham, whose Perspetiva communis reveals no unequivocal borrowings and has only a handful of possible ones." in the context of "Footnote: Perhaps the likeliest instance of borrowing occurs in Perspectiva communis III, prop. 12, for which Pecham may have drawn from Ptolemy's account of atmospheric refraction in V, 24-31; but even in this case the evidential support is slim. See David C. Lindberg, ed., and trans., John Pecham and the Science of Optics: Perspectiva Communis (1970) pp. 222-225
• A. Mark Smith (Tr.) Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics with Introduction and Commentary (1996)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Peckham

About John Peckham

John Peckham (or Pecham) (c. 1230 – 1292) was a native of Sussex who was educated at Lewes Priory and became a Franciscan friar about 1250. He studied under Bonaventure at the University of Paris and became regent master (official lecturer) in theology. He was a conservative theologian who debated Thomas Aquinas with some success. He also taught at Oxford University and then traveled to Rome via France, to study law. In Rome he received a papal appointment to the position of Lector Sacri Palatii (theological lecturer) in the papal palace schools, where his lectures were attended by large audiences, including many bishops and cardinals. After one or two years in Rome, he was appointed by Pope Nicholas III as Archbishop of Canterbury (1279–1292), where he became known as one of the three earliest champions of English clerical reform.