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  • Optics: the principle of the camera obscura. Engraving, 1752.
  • The components of a camera obscura. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].
  • A camera obscura shown in use in a landscape and in diagram. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A seated man looking through a camera obscura at half a skeleton suspended upside down from a tripod as two men look on. Etching.
  • The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, from the south, the Isle of Dogs and West India Docks beyond. Engraving by T. Reeve after E. Pugh, 1804.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1809, after E. Pugh, 1804.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.
  • A monument within which is suspended the flayed skin of a man, with a canal system as an allegory of the circulation of blood, and other allegories of anatomy. Engraving, 1651.