Pappus' notes to Euclid's optics

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Authors Alexander Jones

Publication date 5 March 2002

zbMATH Keywords

opticsEuclidperspectivePappus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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