catoptrics

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Concerning other aids; besides what the masters of the catoptrics, phonocamptics, otacoustics, &c., have done, something has been attempted by the Royal Society; and you know the industrious Kircher has much laboured.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

The science of reflected light, now called catoptrics.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Catoptric, kat-op′trik, adj. relating to catoptrics or vision by reflection.—n.pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Quinola Senor knows mechanics, ballistics, mathematics, dioptrics, catoptrics, statistics?

From The Resources of Quinola by Balzac, Honoré de