The title page for the six books on optics by Franciscus Aguilonius shows optics as a science in its own right, as the queen of mathematical sciences. It also offers a visual discussion on the importance of the science within the Jesuit belief and educational system. Drawing on a well-known visual language consisting of allegorical, mythological and architectural elements, Rubens elevates Optics to the status of a queen, while also emphasising the connection of vision, the passions and knowledge, especially spiritual knowledge. This connection is not only the key to understanding of Rubens’s title page, but it explains the awkward outdatedness of Aguilonius’s book, in that it does not touch upon Kepler’s latest theories. The book was nevertheless important for Jesuit teaching in the following decades. This article offers a reading of the Aguilonius title page in its historical context.

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提升光学：弗朗西斯·阿吉洛尼乌斯 (Franciscus Aguilonius) 的 Opticorum Libri Sex (1613) 在其历史背景下的标题页

弗朗西斯·阿吉洛尼乌斯 (Franciscus Aguilonius) 所著六本光学书籍的扉页将光学展示为一门科学，它是数学科学的女王。它还提供了关于科学在耶稣会信仰和教育系统中的重要性的视觉讨论。鲁本斯利用由寓言、神话和建筑元素组成的著名视觉语言，将光学提升到女王的地位，同时也强调视觉、激情和知识，尤其是精神知识的联系。这种联系不仅是理解鲁本斯扉页的关键，而且解释了阿吉洛尼乌斯这本书令人尴尬的过时之处，因为它没有触及开普勒的最新理论。尽管如此，这本书在接下来的几十年里对耶稣会的教学很重要。