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catoptrical

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ca·top·tric  (k-tptrk) also ca·top·tri·cal (-tr-kl)
adj.
Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.
[Greek katoptrikos, from katoptron, mirror; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]
ca·toptrics n.
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Adj.1.catoptrical - of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors
catoptric
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Moreover, not only did Galileo and his friends blend Dutch rumors with Alexandrian stories, but Reeves also argues that the literary motifs had a correlate in sixteenth-century catoptrical experimentation.
Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror by Dupre, Sven / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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