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Peripatetic and Euclidean theories of the visual ray
1Department of Classics, University of Toronto.
Physis; Rivista Internazionale Di Storia Della Scienza
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
The visual ray of Euclid's Optica is endowed with properties that reveal the concept to be an abstraction of a specific physical account of vision. The evolution of a physical theory of vision compatible with the Euclidean model can be traced in Peripatetic writings of the late fourth and third centuries B.C.