Dioptrics

Word DIOPTRICS
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Hyphenation di op trics
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Definitions and meanings of "Dioptrics"

What do we mean by dioptrics?

The study of the refraction of light. noun

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light passing through different media, as air, water, or glass, and especially through lenses. noun

The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light. noun

Plural form of dioptric. noun

The study of the refraction of light, especially by lenses noun

(in the plural) The branch of optics concerned with refraction.

A dioptric telescope.

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The word "dioptrics" in example sentences

Mathematics and mechanics, optics and dioptrics are present in discussions of color practices, especially those at the fine-arts academies, but chemistry was more directly a part of the daily routine of colormakers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650) published Discours de la méthode, an introduction to his philosophy, which served as a preface to his works on dioptrics, meteorology, and geometry. ❋ Unknown (2001)

ALLVAR GULLSTRAND (1862 – 1930), professor of physiological and physical optics at the University of Uppsala: the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye." ❋ Unknown (1971)

Caroline Institute wished to show their respect for Gullstrand's penetrating pioneer work on the dioptrics of the eye. ❋ Unknown (1967)

In 1911 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on the dioptrics of the eye. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Menschen (Introduction to the methods of the dioptrics of the human eyes), 1911. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Menschen (The optical image in heterogeneous media and the dioptrics of the human crystalline lens), 1908, which was awarded the Centenary Gold Medal of the Swedish Medical Association. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Uppsala, for his works concerning the dioptrics of the eye. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Whatever the reasons, the fact is that considerable progress had already been made in both catoptrics, the study of reflected light, and dioptrics, the study of refraction. ❋ WILLIAM A. WALLACE (1968)

In 1604 he published “A Supplement to Vitellion,” containing the earliest known reasonable theory of optics, and especially of dioptrics or vision through lenses. ❋ Bryant, Walter W (1920)

Galileo, by his astronomical discoveries, Kepler, by his calculation, Descartes (at least, in his dioptrics), and Sir Isaac Newton, in all his works, severally saw the mechanism of the springs of the world. ❋ Voltaire (1909)

He applied this geometrical and inventive genius to dioptrics, which, when treated of by him, became a new art. ❋ Voltaire (1909)

Besides the "Discourse on Method" (1637), with the treatises on dioptrics, meteors, and geometry, his principal works were his "Meditations" addressed to the Deans of the ❋ Various (1909)

Emile will never learn dioptrics unless he learns with this stick. ❋ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1745)

But in order co a more full explication of this point, and to show how far the hypothesis of the mind's judging by the various divergency of rays may be of use in determining the apparent place of an OBJECT, it will be necessary to premise some few things, which are already well known to those who have any skill in dioptrics. ❋ George Berkeley (1719)

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