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

John Thomas Quekett. Mezzotint by W. Walker, c. 1850, after E. Walker.

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.

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

Notes on Diseases

M0000251: Nachet collection: two Spy glasses

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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.

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

Notes on Diseases

M0000251: Nachet collection: two Spy glasses