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The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
Catalogue
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Optics of photography : on a new process for equalizing the definition of all the planes of a solid figure represented in a photographic picture / by A. Claudet.
Claudet, A. (Antoine), 1797-1867.Date: [1866?]- Books
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Esperienze di ottica fisiologica intorno alle variazioni dell'angolo visuale rispondenti alla luce decrescente / per Giuseppe Albertotti.
Albertotti, Giuseppe, 1851-1936.Date: 1895- Pictures
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Optics: spectra of various stars, including our sun. Coloured process print by Cassell.
Reference: 47496i- Pictures
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Optics: spectra of various pigments, compared with that of our Sun. Coloured process print by Cassell.
Reference: 47497i- Books
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The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.
Pepper, John Henry, 1821-1900.Date: 1890