Andrews, Ernest John, 1863-, Howland, Howard Newell, 1865- joint author · New York, London, The Macmillan company · leaf 338
f surrounding objects, just as we do with planemirrors. But with spherical mirrors the images are alwaysmore or less distorted, and are us-j^ally larger or smallerthan the object. And another striking difference betweenconcave mirrors and plane mirrors is that when, in a dark-ened room, we reflect… … Fig. 200. This is because the rays from any point of the object,although diverging when striking the mirror, are caused bythe curvature of the mirror to converge; and if the screenis held at the place where the rays meet, an image of thepoint will be formed on the screen. All of the lightwhich…
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