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Claudius Ptolemy and Giambattista Della Porta: Two Contrasting Conceptions of Optics

Yaakov Zik, Giora Hon

We address the phenomenon of reflection in concave spherical mirror in two contrasting approaches to optics. In his Optics (ca.165) Ptolemy applied the cathetus principle as a regu…