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Anatomical drawings of the eye. Description of plate facing page 85, shown in M0011086.

Diagram of an eye

Essay de dioptrique / [Nicolas Hartsoeker].

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

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.