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  • Anatomical drawings of the eye. Description of plate facing page 85, shown in M0011086.
  • Optics: spectra of various substances. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.
  • Anatomical drawings of the eye. Description of plate facing page 85, shown in M0011086.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Engraving.
  • Optics: optical phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.
  • Optics: four kinds of microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: a simple microscope, concealed within a book binding. Engraving.
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].
  • Optics: the principle of multi-lens telescopes. Engraving.
  • Muscles of the eye.
  • Optics: spectra of various pigments, compared with that of our Sun. Coloured process print by Cassell.
  • Formation of image by means of a lens.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Optics: a solar microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: three kinds of microscope. Aquatint by R. Laurie, 1787, after Milne.
  • Schematic eye, Sloane MS 420
  • Optics: spectra of various gases. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.
  • Optics: the principle of the camera obscura. Engraving, 1752.
  • Handbuch der physiologischen Optik / bearb. von H. von Helmholtz.
  • Diagram: Refraction
  • Handbuch der physiologischen Optik / bearb. von H. von Helmholtz.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Anatomical drawings of the eye.
  • Professor Snellen's Standard Test letters for testing vision.