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