Abstract
The salient contributions of writers on optics from Euclid to Newton and Huygens are outlined, with a workable bibliography, to encourage present-day workers to restudy the classical writings and to find ideas that lie outside the paths that orthodox optical science has taken.
© 1966 Optical Society of America
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