Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Concept

Optical instruments

Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
All images (3)

Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    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
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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.

    Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845. | Date: [1793?] | Reference: 575724i
    • Books
    • Online

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

    Prentice, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1854- | Date: 1907
    • Books
    • Online

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

    Fraser-Harris, David Fraser, 1867-1937. | Date: [1895]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Notes on Diseases

    | Date: Late 17th Century - early 18th Century | Reference: MS.MSL.25
All works (42)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 16:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence