Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 569
rically, except in the case wheresome parts of a body are nearer the mirror than others. The distortionof features observed on looking into a spherical garden mirror is moremarked the nearer we are to the glass. Objects seen in cylindrical orconical mirrors appear ludicrously distorted. From the… … seen in such mirrors, appear in their normal proportions.anamorphoses. 544. Parabolic mirrors.—Parabolic mirrors are concave mirrors whosesurface is generated by the revolution of the arc of a parabola, AM, aboutits axis AX (fig. 510). It has been already stated thatin spherical mirrors the rays…
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