5 sentences with 'optics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word optics and other words derived from it.
• « 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 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. »
• « Newton personally designed and built a new and more effective type of telescope, and wrote the founding document for the modern science of optics. »
• « 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. »