Catoptrics

Light path of a Newtonian (catoptric) telescope

Catoptrics (from Ancient Greek: κατοπτρικός katoptrikós, "specular",[1] from Ancient Greek: κάτοπτρον katoptron "mirror")[2] deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. A catoptric system is also called a catopter (catoptre).

  1. ^ Jannaris, Antonius Nicholas (1895). A Concise Dictionary of the English and Modern Greek Languages: As Actually Written and Spoken : English-Greek (in Greek). J. Murray.
  2. ^ "Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, κάτοπτρον". Retrieved 2015-03-13.

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