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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIV
Possibly the biggest ever upheaval in the history of optics was the emergence of the telescope at the end of the first decade of the seventeenth century, closely followed by that of the microscope....
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The sixteenth century saw major changes in astronomy and in particular in cosmology. These changes was go on to have a major influence on the development of the theory of mechanics in the seventeenth...
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