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  • Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].
  • Astronomy: telescopic and photographic equipment, set up to record the shadow of the moon. Wood engraving.
  • Astronomy: telescopic and photographic equipment, with a device for projecting the shadow of the moon. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • 4 Stethoscope. A- telescopic, see Maw 1882. B- made of aluminium, like Hughe's but no record of material. C- unusual design, said to be 1845-1855. D- Italian, but like Williams.
  • Yellow fever in Cuba: (above) the Aedes-aegypti mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, seen as a target through a telescopic gun-sight; (below) a discarded tyre, oil drum etc. as places where the mosquito breeds. Colour screen print (?) after S. Goire Castilla, 198- (?).
  • De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia. Ubi de eorum confectione, ac usu, seu de effectibus agitur, novaque quaedam circa ea proponuntur. Accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum / Authore Petro Borello.
  • A barber's shop in which men demonstrate the sense of sight. Etching by W. Peeters after C. de Wael.
  • Vim you see in sizes three, every size saves L.s.d / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.
  • John Dolland, after B. Wilson's painting at Greenwich Observatory.
  • John Dolland, after picture in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  • Navigation: various navigational aids, including a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving by Barlow.
  • Astronomy: two rococo allegorical compositions about the art and sciences, and on the stars. Engraving.
  • Navigation: a gimbal compass and a sextant. Engraving.
  • Optics: a micrometer, for range-finding [?], with diagrams of its operation. Engraving by Barlow.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
  • Simon Marius [Mayr]. Woodcut.
  • Simon Marius [Mayr]. Woodcut.
  • Navigation: the engraved titlepage to the Mariners Magazine. Engraving by T. Cross 1669 [after S. Sturmy?].
  • Mr. Gray's School, Westminster: the interior. Lithograph by J. Miller.
  • Astronomy: a young astronomer in his study, talking with his sister, who holds a book in her lap. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • Astronomy: Thomas Phelps (left) and John Bartlett making astronomical observations in the observatory of the Earl of Macclesfield, Oxfordshire. Mezzotint by J. Watson, 1778.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Etching by F.D. Née after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • The workshop of the spectacle maker and examples of his craft. Line engraving by ÆB.
  • The Royal Observatory, Paris: the terrace on the garden side, with men experimenting with astronomical and other scientific instruments. Etching, early eighteenth century.
  • Astronomy: a large party climbing to observe the transit of Venus. Wood engraving.