Euclid's optics and its compatibility with linear perspective

DOI10.1007/BF00357417zbMath0478.01004MaRDI QIDQ1160610

C. D. Brownson

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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