296 results
- Ephemera
Free NHS eye test at home : if you are 60 or over ... / Specsavers Healthcall.
Specsavers (Firm)Date: [2014?]- Books
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Description of an engine for dividing strait lines on mathematical instruments. By Mr. J. Ramsden, mathematical instrument-maker, and optician. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Ramsden, J. (Jesse), 1735-1800.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Description and use of a patent medical electrical machine, made by Thomas Blunt, (late Nairne and Blunt), optician and mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, 22, Cornhill / [Thomas Blunt].
Blunt, ThomasDate: 1807- Books
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Description, use, and method of adjusting Hadley's quadrant and sextant. By George Adams, Mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, and optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
Elements of zoology being a concise account of the animal kingdom according to the system of Linnaeus .. for the use of young persons ... / by Philip Carpenter, optician.
Carpenter, Philip.Date: 1823- Books
Eye health : let's keep an eye on your health / Boots UK Limited.
Date: 2012- Ephemera
Back to school offer : free Harry Potter glasses with NHS voucher / Eyeland Vision Care.
Eyeland Vision Care (Firm)Date: [2009?]- Books
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A new and general introduction to practical astronomy: with its application to geography, in describing the Earth. Topography and hydrography, in describing Places on Land and at Sea. Horometry, or the Measurement of Time. The Trial of Time-Keepers. The Obliquity of the Ecliptic. The Magnetic Variation, and Variation Charts of the Ocean. Refraction and Parallax. The Horizons of the Spheroidal Earth. Surveying the Coasts, and correcting the Charts. Observations of Lunar Eclipses, and Jupiter's Satellites. The Construction of temporary, and other Instruments; with tables of the sun and fixed stars, and a variety of interesting copper plates. The whole being designed, As a Course of plain and easy Instructions and Operations, preparatory to the discovery of the longitude. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical and Philosophical Sciences, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
Von Ocularien, Perspicillen und Mikroskopen, von Hungersnöten und Friedensfreuden, Optikern, Kaufleuten und Fürsten : Materialien zur Geschichte der optischen Werkstatt von Johann Wiesel (1583-1662) und seiner Nachfolger in Augsburg / bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Inge Keil ; Redaktion: Wolfgang M. Dipp.
Date: 2003- Pictures
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A optician gives an old lady an eye test, she asks him to read it for her as her eyesight is not very good. Reproduction of a drawing after E.H. Shepard, 1926.
Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976.Date: 1926Reference: 15468i- Books
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Outlines of a system of vegetable generation. By Dr. J. Hill. Illustrated with figures.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Archives and manuscripts
General Optical Council
General Optical CouncilDate: 1959-2000Reference: SA/GOC- Books
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John Cuff, optician, spectacle, and microscope maker, at the sign of The reflecting microscope and spectacles, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street, makes and sells all sorts of the most curious optical instruments, ...
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1745?]- Books
The optician's handbook : being an introduction to the study of the refraction of the eye, its anomalies and their estimation and correction by means of glasses / by an ophthalmic surgeon (M.R.C.S.E.).
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]- Ephemera
Contact lenses ephemera. Box 1.
- Ephemera
Browning's spectroscopes : all of which can be supplied from stock : direct vision spectroscopes ... chemical spectroscopes and spectrometers / R.M. Neumann, successor to John Browning.
Neumann, R. M.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]- Books
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A short dissertation on the barometer, thermometer, and other meteorological instruments: together with an account of the prognostic signs of the weather. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, and Optician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
Han'guk an'gyŏng sa taegwan.
Date: [1986?]- Books
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A short account of the nature and use of spectacles. In which is recommended, A Kind of Glass for Spectacles, preferable to any hitherto made use of for that Purpose. By James Ayscough, Optician, At the Great Golden Spectacles in Ludgate-Street, London.
Ayscough, James, -approximately 1762.Date: printed in the year, MDCCL. [1750]- Ephemera
Glasses ephemera. Box 1.
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An eye specialist (Monsieur Macaire) trying to convince a patient to spend more money on treatment. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier after C. Philipon.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 16369i- Books
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Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch. By George Adams, Mathematical - Instrument Maker to his Majesty, and Optician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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A system of naval mathematics: or, practical rules of the art of navigation. Intended for the Use of Schools, and Young Mariners. By J. Bettesworth, Master of the Naval Academy, Chelsea.
Bettesworth, John.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A particular account of the electrical experiments hitherto made publick, with variety of new ones, and full instructions for performing them: to which is annex'd, the description of a compleat electrical machine, and its Apparatus, with the Way of using it. Illustrated with cuts. By Francis Watkins, Optician to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The description and use of a new astronomical instrument, for taking altitudes of the sun and stars at sea, without an horizon; together with an easy and sure method of observing the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, or any other phoenomenon of the like kind, on ship-board; In order to determine the Difference of Meridians at Sea. To which are added, tables for computing the Times when the Eclipses of the First Satellite of Jupiter happen under the Meridian of London.
Ward, William, active 1735.Date: 1735