Petzval surface

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Petzval surface

The imaginary curved surface upon which images would be formed if curvature of field were the only aberration present. It is the curved surface in which the tangential and sagittal image shells of a point-focal lens coincide. See oblique astigmatism; curvature of field; anastigmatic lens.

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