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Lenses

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  • An old man trying on spectacles at a street vendor's optical shop. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Optics: lens grinders at work (top) and stages in grinding a lens with the tools used (below). Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Optics: glass tubes (right) and Leeuwenhoek's first microscope (left) Photograph.
  • Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1820.
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    Optics: a simple microscope. Engraving.

    | Reference: 47512i
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    Optics: three kinds of simple microscope. Engraving.

    | Reference: 47510i
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    Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 47044i
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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.

    Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), 1871-1962. | Date: 1913
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    La lente : storia, scienza, curiosità attraverso la collezione Fritz Rathschüler catalogo della mostra, Genova, 5 marzo-5 giugno 1988, Museo civico di storia naturale "G. Doria".

    | Date: [1988], ©1988
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