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  • Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XXII/Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics/Optical Fabrication and Testing
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper FWW1
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2004.FWW1

How Much Optics did Medieval and Renaissance Scholars Know?

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Abstract

Widespread myths about the ignorance and intellectual stagnation of medieval Europe, along with equally widespread myths about the Scientific Revolution of the 15th and 17th- centuries as the birth of serious science, have left the impression that medieval optical knowledge was thin to nonexistent. This lecture will explore the level of medieval optical knowledge up to the year 1600 and beyond.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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