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Brief History of Optics

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.
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http://members.aol.com/WSRNet/D1/hist.htm

Author: 
John Gormally
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Euclid (Alexandria) In his Optica he noted that light travels in straight lines and described the law of reflection. He believed that vision involves rays going from the eyes to the object seen and he studied the relationship between the apparent sizes of objects and the angles that they subtend at the eye

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