Instrument using light waves for image viewing

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An optical experiment using a giant lens to reflect sun-rays to create fire, with optical instruments scattered and fountains in a Baroque setting. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1737, after J. de La Jouë.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.

A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.

The principles and methods of geometrical optics : especially as applied to the theory of optical instruments / by James P. C. Southall.

Ophthalmic lenses : dioptric formulae for combined cylindrical lenses, the prism-dioptry and other optical papers / by Charles F. Prentice.

Note on the stereophotochromoscope : a new optical instrument / by David Fraser Harris.

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Optical Devices

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The principles and methods of geometrical optics : especially as applied to the theory of optical instruments / by James P. C. Southall.

A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.

Ophthalmic lenses : dioptric formulae for combined cylindrical lenses, the prism-dioptry and other optical papers / by Charles F. Prentice.

Note on the stereophotochromoscope : a new optical instrument / by David Fraser Harris.

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Optical Devices

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The principles and methods of geometrical optics : especially as applied to the theory of optical instruments / by James P. C. Southall.

A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.

Ophthalmic lenses : dioptric formulae for combined cylindrical lenses, the prism-dioptry and other optical papers / by Charles F. Prentice.

Note on the stereophotochromoscope : a new optical instrument / by David Fraser Harris.

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