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and Western European Renaissance scientists and artists, and is further credited with laying the foundations of classical optics.

Historical significance

Writers before Euclid had developed theories of vision. However, their works were mostly philosophical in nature and lacked the mathematics that Euclid introduced in his Optics. Efforts by the Greeks prior to Euclid were concerned primarily with the physical dimension of vision. Whereas Plato and Empedocles

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