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  • Formation of image by means of a lens.
  • 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.
  • Essay de dioptrique / [Nicolas Hartsoeker].
  • Schematic eye, Sloane MS 420
  • Diagram: Refraction
  • Anatomical drawings of the eye.
  • Diagram of an eye
  • Leonardo da Vinci. On the eye and vision.
  • Muscles of the eye.
  • Fick's Opthalmotonometer - instrument for determing the tension of the eyeball in cases of glaucoma.
  • Woodcuts: anatomy of the eye, circa 1503.
  • Theory of colours and vision
  • Developing eye in a chick embryo
  • William Kitchiner. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1827, after himself.
  • William Kitchiner. Stipple engraving by T. Woolnoth, 1827, after W. Rubidge.
  • The mystery and lore of apparitions : with some account of ghosts, spectres, phantoms and boggarts in early times / by C.J.S. Thompson.
  • Handbuch der physiologischen Optik / bearb. von H. von Helmholtz.
  • Handbuch der physiologischen Optik / bearb. von H. von Helmholtz.
  • Bovril rises daily in public estimation / [Bovril Limited].
  • Bovril rises daily in public estimation / [Bovril Limited].
  • John Thomas Quekett. Mezzotint by W. Walker, c. 1850, after E. Walker.
  • Prof. Dr. G. Grijns' researches on vitamins 1900-1911 and his thesis on the physiology of the N. Opticus / translated and reedited by a committee of honour on oaccsion of his 70th birthday.
  • A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
  • Transverse section of brain and eyes, Zebrafish model
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.
  • Ophthalmic Hospital, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Zur Physik Leonardo da Vincis / [Otto Werner].
  • Zur Physik Leonardo da Vincis / [Otto Werner].
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.