- A
catoptric system is also
called a
catopter (catoptre).
Catoptrics is the
title of two
texts from
ancient Greece: The Pseudo-Euclidean
Catoptrics. This...
- A
catoptric cistula, also
called a
catoptric theatre or chest, is a box with
several sides lined with mirrors, so as to
magnify or
multiply images of any...
- In geometry, John
Horton Conway defines architectonic and
catoptric tessellations as the
uniform tessellations (or honeycombs) of
Euclidean 3-space with...
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Hutchinson developed the
first practical optical system in 1763,
known as a
catoptric system.[citation needed] This
rudimentary system effectively collimated...
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would later become the Fermat's principle. He made
major contributions to
catoptrics and
dioptrics by
studying reflection,
refraction and
nature of images...
- Phaenomena. Euclid's
authorship of two
other texts—On
Divisions of Figures,
Catoptrics—has been questioned. He is
thought to have
written many now lost works...
- are two main
types of anamorphosis:
perspective (oblique) and
mirror (
catoptric). More
complex anamorphoses can be
devised using distorted lenses, mirrors...
- (optikós), ὄψις (ópsis) amblyopia, anopia, autopsy, biopsy, catadioptrics,
catoptrics, catoptromancy, catoptrophobia, cyclops, diopter, dioptre, dioptrics,...
- Its name
comes from a café wall that
produced the illusion.
Catoptric cistula A
catoptric cistula is a box with
insides made of
mirrors so as to distort...
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Treatises Almagest Archimedes Palimpsest Arithmetica Conics (Apollonius)
Catoptrics Data (Euclid)
Elements (Euclid)
Measurement of a
Circle On
Conoids and...