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As part of this effort, we increased staffing at our design center in Wuhan, China, an area known as "Optics Valley".
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At this time, it is supposed, he wrote the justly admired Treatise on Optics, which is in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Any questions should be directed toward someone who, for example, understands why the first one can be classified under "Optics". physics/0510209 [abs, ps, pdf, other]:
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Arabic writings, such as the celebrated "Book of Three Brothers", composed by the Beni Mûsa, "Optics" by Ibn Al-Haitam (the Alhazen of the Scholastics), "Astronomy" by Geber, and "De motu octavæ sphæræ" by Thâbit ibn Kûrrah.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Newton's works contain nothing in point of style and illustration comparable to Bacon's essays; Bacon's works contain nothing in point of scientific discovery and mathematical calculation comparable to Newton's "Optics" and "Principia."
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Bartlett's "Optics" was a fearful book, and the most formidable discussion in it was that called "optical images."
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894
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If you will look into the article 'Optics' in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia (vol.xv. p. 643), you will find an account of what has been previously done to reduce by one-half the length of reflecting telescopes.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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His old friend and class fellow, Whiteside, gave him a dinner to which I attended him, where was the late Dr. Lloyd, the Provost of the College, a learned man, whose works on "Optics" are well known.
John Forster Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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Among the books he read during this Bath period were Smith's "Optics" and Lalande's "Astronomy."
Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873
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"Optics," or the "Letters to Bentley," will see, even if he has no more special knowledge of the topics discussed than I have, that
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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