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  • Five antiquaries look through magnifying glasses at objects. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • Five antiquaries look through magnifying glasses at objects. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
  • In a garden, men with wens look through magnifying glasses at round flowers. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1823.
  • A cartoon couple looking in opposite directions through magnifying glasses; warning pregnant women to take a test for HIV. Colour lithograph after Pat for the Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS, ca. 1995.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: nurse examining a small object with a magnifying glass. Photograph, 1916.
  • Two men and a boy read from a book, one man holds a magnifying glass. Line engraving by N. Cavalli after D. Maggiotto.
  • A kneeling figure is purified by the sunlight which falls through a magnifying glass held by an angel, representing consideration (meditation). Etching by J. Clark, 1720.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • A sleepy congregation in a country church with one clergyman reading the serman with the aid of a magnifying glass and the other ogling a sleeping woman. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep. Mezzotint after W. Hogarth.
  • Medical investigation
  • A young man, 'Sir Fopling Flutter' ogles women through a lens while a bailiff serves him a writ. Mezzotint, 1769, by J. Dixon after himself.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.