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Optical Instruments

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Electrodynamics and Optics

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Our ability to see is probable the most important communication between the human individual and his surroundings.

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Demtröder, W. (2019). Optical Instruments. In: Electrodynamics and Optics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02291-4_11

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