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Optics (Ancient Greek: Ὀπτικά) is a work on the geometry of vision written by the Greek mathematician Euclid around 300 BC. The earliest surviving manuscript of Optics is in Greek and dates from the 10th century AD.
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| Brunelleschi | instance of | Renaissance artists | 0.80 | text |
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| and Dürer used Euclid's Optics in their own work on linear perspective | instance of | Renaissance artists | 0.80 | text |
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