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Euclid, working in Hellenistic Alexandria in about …
Years: 309BCE - 298BCE
Euclid, working in Hellenistic Alexandria in about 300 BCE, establishes a set of axioms for geometry.
Around the same time, he writes a treatise entitled Optics and Catoptrics, in which he sets forth the correct law of reflection and applies the law to the study of plane and curved mirrors.
He also mentions the phenomenon of refraction.
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Years: 309BCE - 298BCE
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