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Optics

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  • Diagram of an eye
  • Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.
  • M0010893: Refraction of light at a prism
  • Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

    Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630. | Date: 1980
    • Books

    Science and instruments in seventeenth-century Italy / Silvio A. Bedini.

    Bedini, Silvio A. | Date: 1994
    • Books

    Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures / By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt.

    Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. | Date: 1721
    • Pictures

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

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 47500i
    • Pictures

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

    | Reference: 47501i
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