Diagram of an eye

Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.

Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819.

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.

A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.

Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1820.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Optics: microscopy, including a magnified title page and a specimen holder. Engraving by Barlow.

Optics: lens grinding tools and different products with lenses. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.

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

[vii], 490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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.

4 unnumbered leaves, 382 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 12 folded plates : diagrams ; (8vo)

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.

1 print : aquatint(?), printed in colours ; image 18.1 x 12 cm

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

1 print : engraving ; image and border 15.8 x 9.2 cm

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

186, that is, 187 pages : illustrations (engravings) ; (8vo)

Le covrs de mathematiqve, contenant en cent figvres vne idée generale de toutes les parties de cette science, l'vsage de ses instrumens, diuerses manieres de prendre les distances, l'art d'arpenter, diuers moyens de lever et tracer vn plan, la reduction des figures par les triangles de rapport, la trigonometrie, les fortifications regulieres & irregulieres, leurs dehors, profil, esleuation, & sciagraphie. Contenant de plus vn traité de l'vsage du globe terrestre, et vn autre de l'optique dioptrique & catoptrique ... / par le R.P. Bovrdin, de la Compagnie de Iesvs.

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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.

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.

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.

Optics

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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.

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.

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.

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