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On defects of vision which are remediable by Optical appliances : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Carter, Robert Brudenell, 1828-1918.

Date: 1877

Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Coloured process print by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Digeon, René Henri, active 1866-1872.

Date: 1868

Compound microscope, Boston, United States, 1870-1880

Science Museum, London

Section of eye showing a glioma springing from the optic nerve

Dysplasia, septo-optic

Zebrafish optic chiasm

Dr Steve Wilson

Refraction and how to refract : including sections on optics, retinoscopy, the fitting of spectacles and eyeglasses, etc.

Thorington, James, 1858-1944.

Date: 1910

Old, decolourised clot in the substance of the optic thalamus

Round celled sarcoma of the anterior mediastinum : extensive metastases, including the brain, both choroid coats, oculo-motor and optic nerves, and external ocular muscles

Meigs, Arthur V. 1850-1912.

Date: [1894]

On defects of vision which are remediable by optical appliances : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Carter, Robert Brudenell, 1828-1918.

Date: 1877

Double optic neuritis with paralyis of olfactory nerves, and sensory division of right fifth nerve

Date: 1884

Diagram of an eye

MRI scan; cancer of the pituitary gland

Cardiac output in man.

Forssmann, W. (Werner Theodor Otto), 1904-1979.

Date: 1951

"loose" gamma ganglion cell from the retina

Richard Wingate

Enamelled metal optical novelty inside paper packet bearing instructions, "Les 2 Picelos" in form of two torsos, possibly manufactured in Germany and then sold in France, puzzle, German(?), 1850-1900. Copy view of all four figures. White background.

Science Museum, London

Observations on the arrangement of the fibres in the optic nerve of the loligo and other animals.

Power, John Hatch, 1806-1863.

Date: 1842

Crystals of the amino acid cysteine

Fernan Federici & Jim Haseloff

A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Date: [1754]

General and practical optics

Laurance, Lionel.

Date: 1914

Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.

Date: 1761

La perspective cvrievse ov magie artificiele des effets merveillevx. De l'optique, par la vision directe. La catoptrique, par la reflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la refraction des crystaux ...

Nicéron, Jean François, 1613-1646.

Date: 1638

Optics: a simple microscope. Engraving.

Optics: three kinds of simple microscope. Engraving.

Zebrafish optic chiasm

Dr Steve Wilson

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