10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIOPTRICS»
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dioptrics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dioptrics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical ...
... other students of dioptrics been doing? In this section, I sketch the
development of seventeenth-century dioptrics, with a particular emphasis on the.
43OC1, 280; 301-303; 321-322. Huygens did not pin much faith in Van
Schooten's proposal.
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, 2006
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Descartes: A Very Short Introduction
In the Dioptrics, it occupied the first chapter. Descartes solicited comments,
questions, and objections concerning all three essays: perhaps he hoped to
receive a request for an elaboration of the theory of light in the Dioptrics so as to
have a ...
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Elements of Natural Philosophy
Refraction of Light in Transparent Bodies ; or First Principles of Dioptrics. 540. All
aeriform fluids, most liquids, and many solid bodies, are transparent. Perhaps
there is no one which may not be traversed by light to a certain degree ; since
gold ...
Ernst Gottfried Fischer, Jean-Baptiste Biot, John Farrar, 1827
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System of Natural Philosophy
If we use the word optics, in the stricter sense of it, for the theory of vision; the
science of optics is divided into two parts: one part is called dioptrics, and the
other catoptrics. The laws of refractions and the effects, which the refraction of
light has ...
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Mechanics. Optics.-v. 2. Hydrostatics. Astronomy
If we use the word optics , in the stricter sense of it, for the theory of vision; the
science of optics is divided into two parts : one part is called dioptrics, and the
other catoptrics. The laws of refraction, and the effects, which the refraction of
light has ...
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Refracting Telescope: Optical Telescope, Lens, Objective, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Refractors were the earliest type of optical telescope.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
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Principles of Philosophy:
bodies, but solely by the globules of the second element;128 whence there
occurs a sensation of light and color; as I have already sufficiently explained in
the Dioptrics and in the Meteorology.129 196. That the soul does not feel except
insofar ...
René Descartes, Valentine Rodger Miller, R.P. Miller, 1984
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Descartes' Metaphysical Physics
But what practice is relevant here? Interestingly enough the three essays that
accompany the Discourse are not, by and large, what Descartes had in mind.26
The Dioptrics, Meteors, and Geometry are, of course, not unconnected to the
method ...
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Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Natural ...
On Dioptrics ; Instruments which that Science supplies : of Telescopes and
Microscopes. Different Figures given to Glasses or Lenses. The wonders of
dioptrics will now, I think, furnish a subject worthy of your attention. This science
provides us ...
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Renaissance Theories of Vision
Ibn al-Haytham's groundbreaking studies in optics, including his research in
catoptrics and dioptrics (respectively the sciences investigating the principles and
instruments pertaining to the reflection and refraction of light), were principally ...
Dr Charles H Carman, Dr John Hendrix, 2012
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIOPTRICS»
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dioptrics is used in the context of the following news items.
5 reasons VR headsets for smartphones are so great
“It is designed to adjust for different dioptrics — myopia or astigmatism — and eye separation, so the population segment is broad,” Manuel ... «Hypergrid Business, Oct 14»
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Things go full circle with Sunday's headliner Dioptrics, which was the special guest at the first Vegas Church party. Expect this one to spill over ... «Las Vegas Weekly, Jul 14»
Difference Engine: Looking up?
... combined mirrors (cataoptrics) and lenses (dioptrics). By the 1970s, the popularity of backyard astronomy sustained dozens of manufacturers ... «The Economist, Jul 13»
Nobel Prize in Medicine: 1901-Present
1911: Allvar Gullstrand, "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye." 1910: Albrecht Kossel, "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of ... «LiveScience.com, Oct 11»
