- A
catoptric system is also
called a
catopter (catoptre).
Catoptrics is the
title of two
texts from
ancient Greece: The Pseudo-Euclidean
Catoptrics. This...
- 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...
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would later become Fermat's principle. He made
major contributions to
catoptrics and
dioptrics by
studying reflection,
refraction and
nature of images...
- an
optical system,
usually via
lenses (dioptrics) and
curved mirrors (
catoptrics).
Catadioptric combinations are used in
focusing systems such as searchlights...
- A
catadioptric sensor is a
visual sensor that
contains mirrors (
catoptrics) and
lenses (dioptrics), a
combined catadioptric system.
These are panoramic...
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especially by lenses. In contrast, the
branch dealing with
mirrors is
known as
catoptrics.
Telescopes that
create their image with an
objective that is a convex...
-
large telescopes. The two
traditional optical systems are mirror-systems (
catoptrics) and lens-systems (dioptrics). However, in the late
twentieth century...
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commonly also
prisms (dioptrics)
Reflecting telescopes,
which use
mirrors (
catoptrics)
Catadioptric telescopes,
which combine lenses and
mirrors An optical...
- 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...
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Syracuse (c. 213–212 BC), but no
sources from the time have been confirmed.
Catoptrics is a book
attributed to
Euclid on how to
focus light in
order to produce...
