Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

LensesReset filters
29 results
  • An old man trying on spectacles at a street vendor's optical shop. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Optics: lens grinders at work (top) and stages in grinding a lens with the tools used (below). Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Optics: glass tubes (right) and Leeuwenhoek's first microscope (left) Photograph.
  • Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1820.
  • Optics: microscopy, including a magnified title page and a specimen holder. Engraving by Barlow.
  • Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.
  • Optics: lens grinding tools and different products with lenses. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • 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.
  • Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1820.
  • Optics: various microscopes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Optics: a variety of microscopes and specimens. Engraving, c.1770.
  • 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.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Engraving.
  • Optics: optical phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Optics: four kinds of microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: a simple microscope, concealed within a book binding. Engraving.
  • Sir Isaac Newton (?) showing an optical experiment to an audience in his laboratory. Wood engraving by Martin after C. Laverie.
  • Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].
  • Optics: the principle of multi-lens telescopes. Engraving.
  • The workshop of the spectacle maker and examples of his craft. Line engraving by ÆB.
  • Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.
  • Optics: two kinds of specialist microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: a solar microscope. Engraving, 1787 [by Goodnight after Milne ?].
  • Optics: three kinds of microscope. Aquatint by R. Laurie, 1787, after Milne.
  • Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.
  • Optics: three kinds of simple microscope. Engraving.
  • Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].
  • Optics: a micrometer, for range-finding [?], with diagrams of its operation. Engraving by Barlow.