This work is the culmination of 25 years of teaching Geometrical Optics. The chapters are devoted to in-depth treatments of stops, pupils and ports; magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and camera lenses; ophthalmic instruments; resolving power and MTF; trigonometric ray tracing; and chromatic and monochromatic aberrations.

The volume is organized such that the single spherical refracting surface is the basic optical element.
Spherical mirrors are treated as special cases of refraction, with the same applicable equations.
Thin lens equations follow as combinations of spherical refracting surfaces while the cardinal points of the thick lens make it equivalent to a thin lens. Ultimately, one set of vergence equations are applicable to all these elements.

Brief Contents
PREFACE
Acknowledgments
1 LIGHT
2 REFLECTION AT PLANE MIRRORS
3 REFRACTION OF LIGHT
4 REFRACTION BY PLANES, PLATES AND PRISMS
5 PARAXIAL REFRACTION AT PLANES, PLATES AND PRISMS
6 REFRACTION AND REFLECTION AT SPHERICAL SURFACES
7 THIN LENSES
8 ROTATIONALLY SYMMETRICAL SYSTEMS
9 ASTIGMATIC LENSES
10 THICK LENS SYSTEMS: PART I
11 THICK LENS SYSTEMS: PART II
12 STOPS, PUPILS AND PORTS
13 NUMERICAL APERTURE, f-NUMBER AND RESOLUTION
14 MAGNIFIERS AND MICROSCOPES
15 TELESCOPES
16 CAMERAS AND PROJECTORS
17 OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENTS
18 DISPERSION AND CHROMATIC ABERRATION
19 TRIGONOMETRIC RAY TRACING
20 MONOCHROMATIC ABERRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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