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  • Optics: spectra of various pigments, compared with that of our Sun. Coloured process print by Cassell.
  • Optics: two kinds of specialist microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.
  • Optics: a solar microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: three kinds of microscope. Aquatint by R. Laurie, 1787, after Milne.
  • Optics: spectra of various gases. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.
  • An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.
  • Optics: the principle of the camera obscura. Engraving, 1752.
  • Handbuch der physiologischen Optik / bearb. von H. von Helmholtz.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.
  • Optics: colour scales for violet and yellow. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868, after J. Silbermann.
  • Optics: three kinds of simple microscope. Engraving.
  • Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].
  • Optics: a micrometer, for range-finding [?], with diagrams of its operation. Engraving by Barlow.
  • Optics: a soap bubble exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint (?) by M. Rapine, c. 1883, after B. Desgoffe.
  • A woman drawing at a desk; representing optics. Engraving by M. Dossier after G. Allou.
  • William Kitchiner. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1827, after himself.
  • Painting personified with its ancillary arts and sciences: optics, chemistry and mineralogy. Engraving by P.C. Baquoy, 1809, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Optics: interference phenomena, exhibited by diffraction gratings. Coloured mezzotint by M. Rapine [1883], after B. Desgoffe.