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Transverse section of brain and eyes, Zebrafish model

Dr Steve Wilson

A manual and atlas of medical opthalmoscopy

Zebrafish embryo

Dr Steve Wilson

Anatomical drawings of the eye.

An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.

M'Quin, A. D. 1756-1823.

Date: January 1820

Operation for cataract. Manuscript in the Brussels National Library.

Anatomical drawings of the eye. Description of plate facing page 85, shown in M0011086.

Chevalier's Workshop. Chevalier is a firm in Paris famous for microscopes and other optical instruments.

Zebrafish optic chiasm

Dr Steve Wilson

Eye illustration, 17th century

An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.

Francesco Maggiotto

Cells showing DNA and mitochondria

Paul J.Smith &Rachel Errington

An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.

Francesco Maggiotto

A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

Fluorescent beads

Paul Appleton, University of Dundee

Descartes: Diagram of ocular refraction.

developing embryonic heart

NIMR, Francis Crick Institute

Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales.

Macroscopic Solutions.

Date: 2015

Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Coloured mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.

Date: 1883

Sir Isaac Newton (?) showing an optical experiment to an audience in his laboratory. Wood engraving by Martin after C. Laverie.

MRI scan; cancer of the pituitary gland

Fluorescent beads

Paul Appleton, University of Dundee

CT scan; bilateral optic nerve cancer (glioma)

Visualising the human breath ("I"), Artwork

Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.

Date: 1819

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