5 sentences with “optics”

Newton personally designed and built a new and more effective type of telescope, and wrote the founding document for the modern science of optics.

In optics: the first telescopes, along with the definitive refutation of the idea that the eye sends out rays to detect things and instead receives information reflected from objects.

The English Royal Society focused particularly on military applications, especially optics and ballistics, establishing a pattern of state-funded science in the service of warfare that continues to this day.

A couple of decades ago that brain created a global information network without which civilisation would fall apart: it is a world of computers talking to each other by telephone cable, fibre optics and satellite.

The Book of Optics was available to Brunelleschi in Latin translation, and, crucially, Brunelleschi applied the concept of perspective to actual art (which al-Haytham did not, focusing instead on the scientific basis of optics). In doing so, Brunelleschi introduced the ability of artists to create realistic representations of their subjects.