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Maurolico's ''Photismi de lumine et umbra'' concerns the [[refraction]] of light and attempted to explain the natural phenomenon of the [[rainbow]].
 
Other works include ''Arithmeticorum libri duo'' ([[1575]]), andthe first work to mention [[mathematical induction]].

His ''Opuscola mathematica'' ([[1575]]), which attempted to calculate the [[barycenter]] of various bodies ([[pyramid]], [[parabola]], etc.). In his ''Sicanicarum rerum compendium'', he presented the history of [[Sicily]], and included some autobiographical details.
 
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