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  • [Speaker] An Anatomy of Lenses by Dr. Tina Lu

    Center for East Asian Studies @ University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, United States

    Dr. Tina Lu of Yale University delves into the history of Jingshi (translated as An Anatomy of Lenses), a book produced circa 1681 and discovered in the Shanghai Library archives in 2007. Dr. Lu will discuss what this book tells us and doesn't tell us about the development of optical lenses in 17th Century China. The difficulties in […]

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