Electromagnetic radiation at or near visible wavelengths

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A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.

On the elements of light and their identity with those of matter, radiant and fixed / [John Howard Kyan].

Light energy : its physics, physiological action and therapeutic applications / by Margaret A. Cleaves.

Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.

Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.

Full paediatric sensory unit

A large vehicle (Phoebus's cart), on which is an electrical generator, being pulled along by winged horses with light bulbs on their heads: electricity sweeps all before it. Wood engraving by Swain, 1881, after J. Tenniel.

Optics: spectra of various stars, including our sun. Coloured process print by Cassell.

Adriaan van Cattenburgh. Drawing, c. 1794.

An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.

An optical experiment, by which a man and an angel demonstrate that the strength of a beam of light is not proportionate to the distance which it has travelled. Engraving by T. Galle, 1613, after P.P. Rubens.

A second course of light / by A.E.E. McKenzie.

Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

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Light

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Images referencing Light

Works from the collections

A second course of light / by A.E.E. McKenzie.

Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

Light

Images from the collections

Images referencing Light

Works from the collections

A second course of light / by A.E.E. McKenzie.

Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Optics: Thomas Young's apparatus for viewing thin-film colour interference fringes. Engraving by H. Mutlow, c.1804.

On light. Third course, On the beneficial effects of light, delivered at Aberdeen in November, 1885 / by Gabriel Stokes.

Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

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