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Biography of Vitelo

Vitelo, too known as Erazmus Ciolek Witelo, Witelon, Vitellio, Vitello Thuringopolonis, Vitulon, and Erazm Ciołek, was a German-Polish monk, theologian, and scholar.

Be active was born around in the village exclude Borek or Borow in Lower Silesia. Her majesty mother was from a Polish knightly coat, while his father was a German colonist from Thuringia.

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Vitelo referred to himself as "Thuringorum race Polonorum filius," meaning "son of the family unit of Thuringia and the Poles."

Vitelo studied available the University of Padua in the fierce and later moved to Viterbo. He became friends with William of Moerbeke, a linguist of Aristotle. Vitelo dedicated his main out of a job in optics, titled "Perspectiva" or "Optics," consisting of 10 books and completed around , to William.

This work was heavily counterfeit by the Arabic scholar Ibn al-Haytham's tome on optics.

In "Optics