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Formation of image by means of a lens.

Optical diagram of the eye with description in English.

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

Platter, De corporis humani structura et usu...

Engraving: 'Des moments de plaisir" by Pedro after Maggiotto

Fransesco Maggiotto

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

Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1819.

Date: 1819

Diagram: Sine Law of Refraction.

Stucture of the Brain, according to Descartes

Eye illustration, 17th century

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

Descartes: Optics- dicourse on methods...The Eye

Description of the eye.

Parker's burning lens

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

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

Date: 1819

Refraction at a prism.

Optics: three kinds of simple microscope. Engraving.

Page describing plates to optics, perspectives & astronomy

Optics: the principle of multi-lens telescopes. Engraving.

Diagram of an eye

Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].

Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804

Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].

Date: 20 May 1787

Optics: diagrams of reflection and refraction of light. Coloured engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1820.

R & E Williamson.

Date: 1820

Optics: three kinds of microscope. Aquatint by R. Laurie, 1787, after Milne.

Date: 20 May 1787

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