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Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception: An English Translation of the Optics with Introduction and Commentaryby A. Mark Smith

✍ Scribed by Review by: G. A. Russell

Book ID
123717494
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
119 KB
Volume
89
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-1753

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Until fairly recently, Ptolemy's Optics has been regarded as an exercise in what would today be called physical optics, its focus purportedly upon ray-geometry. In terms of methodology, therefore, the Optics has generally been regarded as a model of applied mathematics. The purpose of this essay is