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Descartes and the hyperbolic quest : lens making machines and their significance in the seventeenth century / D. Graham Burnett.

viii, 152 p. :, 25 cm.

QB88 .B87 2005

Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650 -- Knowledge -- Science., Refraction., Conics, Spherical., Conic sections., Telescopes -- History -- 17th century., Lenses -- History -- 17th century.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2005.

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