M0010593: Illustration of dioptrics

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Illustration of dioptrics.

Diagram from Descartes, Rene: Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences…, A Leyde : De l'imprimerie de I. Maire, 1637

12 May 1948

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/1743

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.