Giambattista Della Porta - Works

Works

  • Natural Magic 1558 expanded to 20 books 1589. English translation 1658. Available online at
  • De furtivis Literarum Notis (1563) On secret codes and Cryptography
  • Villa (1583–92) An agricultural encyclopaedia
  • De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586) On Physiognomy
  • De refractione optices (1589) On Optics
  • Elementorum curvilineorum libri duo (1601)
  • Coelestis Physiogranonia (1603) pub. Naples
  • De aeris transmutanionbus (1609) On Meteorology
  • De distillatione (1610) Della Porta's chemical experiments and observations.
  • De Miracoli & Maravigliosi Effetti dalla Natura prodotti (1665) pub. Venice

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