- 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...
-
originally comprising six
Argand lamps burning colzo oil and ****ed with
catoptric reflectors, was made by De
Ville & Co, London. It
projected a
fixed red...
-
Hutchinson developed the
first practical optical system in 1777,
known as a
catoptric system. This
rudimentary system effectively collimated the
emitted light...
- are two main
types of anamorphosis:
perspective (oblique) and
mirror (
catoptric). More
complex anamorphoses can be
devised using distorted lenses, mirrors...
- of cut
granite was
painted white. The
original light was a
fixed white catoptric third order lens
pointed to land 66 feet
above high
water and visible...
-
would later become Fermat's principle. He made
major contributions to
catoptrics and
dioptrics by
studying reflection,
refraction and
nature of images...
-
reflecting telescopes use mirrors, the
design is
sometimes referred to as a
catoptric telescope. From the time of
Newton to the 1800s, the
mirror itself was...
- Data and Phaenomena. Euclid's
authorship of On
Divisions of
Figures and
Catoptrics has been questioned. He is
thought to have
written many lost works. The...
