, or the science of the reflections of sounds, frequently used in reference to echoes, which are said to be sounds produced anacamptically, or by reflection. And in this sense it was used by the ancients for that part of optics which is otherwise called Catoptrics.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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