a. = prec.

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1672.  Phil. Trans., VII. 4004. An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton. Ibid. (1696), XIX. 215. Catoptrical or Dioptrical or Cata-dioptrical Machines.

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1833.  Brewster, Nat. Magic, iv. 86. The apparatus … may be called the catadioptrical phantasmagoria, as it operates both by reflexion and refraction.

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