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 | | Euclid of Alexandria (ca 325 BC - ca 265 BC) writes, among many other works, Optics, dealing with vision theory and perspective. |
 | | Chinese fortune tellers begin using loadstone to construct their divining boards, eventually leading to the first compasses. |
 | | Claudius Ptolemy (ca 85 - ca 165) writes on optics, deriving the law of reflection from the assumption that light rays travel in straight lines (from the eyes), and tries to establish a quantitative law of refraction. |
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