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  • Detail: Illustration showing two prisms.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Simple Forms: Rhomboid and Rectangular Prism.
  • Dr MacMunn's spectroscope, comprising of one prism and with the scale-tube illuminated by a mirror. The spectroscope is an instrument employed for the analysis of light into its components. This illustration is taken from page 10 of 'Spectrum Analysis Applied to Biology and Medicine' by C A MacMunn.
  • Sir Isaac Newton: optical experiments. Stipple engraving by R.M. Meadows, 1809, after G. Romney, 1796.
  • Simple Forms, pg. xi
  • An owl spreads its wings clutching its prey beneath the moon; warning that AIDS is a prolonged death by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
  • Six types of press: cheese, wine (two), printing, clothes, and rolling. Engraving.
  • An owl spreads its wings clutching its prey beneath the moon; warning that AIDS is a prolonged death by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.