53 results filtered with: Optics - Early works to 1800
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An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn, From the Principles of Optics, and the Nature of the Eye, that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, to the nature of things, &c. and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed. The whole illustrated by a large copper-plate print. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1756]- Books
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A short system of ortfos, principally designed for the use of undergraduates in the University of Dublin. By the Rev. John Stack, A.M. Late Foot T. Old:
Stack, John, Rev.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The observations of Newton concerning the inflections of light; accompanied by other observations differing from his; and appearing to lead to a change of his theory of light and colours.
Jordan, G. W. (Gibbes Walker), 1757-1823.Date: 1799- Books
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Elementa opticæ : nova, facili, & compendiosâ methodo explicata : cum schematibus aliquot (ad pleniorem elucidationem) in calce annexis.
Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660Date: 1651- Books
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A compleat system of opticks in four books, viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole. By Robert Smith LL. D. Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, and Master of Mechanicks to his Majesty.
Smith, Robert, 1689-1768.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Traité d'optique mechanique : dans lequel on donne les régles & les proportions qu'il faut observer pour faire toutes de lunettes d'approche, microscopes simples & composés, & autre ouvrages qui dépendent de l'art avec une instruction sur le choix & l'usage des lunettes ou conserves pour toutes sortes de vûes / par M. Thomin.
Thomin, Marc Mitouflet, 1708-1752.Date: 1749- Books
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, The Art of Dialing, And The Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Catoptricæ et dioptricæ sphæricæ elementa. Auctore Davide Gregorio, M.D. astronomiæ professore saviliono oxoniæ, & societatis regiæ socio.
Gregory, David, 1659-1708.Date: Anno Dom. MDCCXIII. [1713]- Books
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Mathesis juvenilis: or a course of mathematicks for young students, ... Made English from the Latin of Jo. Christopher Sturmius, ... By George Vaux, M.D. In three volumes. ...
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: 1708-09- Books
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Isaaci Newtoni, Eq. Aur. in Academiâ Cantabrigiensi Matheseos olim Professoris Lucasiani lectiones opticæ, annis MDCLXIX, MDCLXX & MDCLXXI. In scholis publicis habitæ: et nunc primum ex MSS. in lucem editæ.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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Experiments and observations on the unequal refrangibility of light: from the transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [By Robert Blair, M.D.]
Blair, Robert, -1828.Date: 1791]- Books
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Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light. The second edition, with additions. By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: 1718- Books
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A short system of optics, principally designed for the use of undergraduates in the University of Dublin. By the Rev. John Stack, A. M. F. T. C. D.
Stack, John, Rev.Date: M.DCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Analysis of a course of lectures, on mechanics, pneumatics, hydrostatics, and astronomy; read by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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Découvertes de M. Marat, (docteur en médecine & médecin des gardes-du-corps de Monseigneur le comte d'Artois.) Sur la lumière; constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles ...
Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.Date: 1780- Books
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Phōtōphusis chroagenesis. De optice errores Isaaci Newtonis aurati equitis demonstrans. Ad illustrandas experientias sex figurae geometrices, ... præsentata fuit hæc dissertatio, simul a Scientiarum Academia ... 1749, auctore Jacobo Gautier, ... Ex Gallico idiomante in Latinum translatum.
Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785.Date: 1750- Books
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Storer's syllabus, to a course of optical experiments, on the Syllepsis Optica, or the new optical principles of the Royal Delineator analysed.
Storer, William.Date: 1782]- Books
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Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres. Authore Isaaco Newton, Equite Aurato. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, A. M. Reverendo admodum Patri ac Dno Joanni Moore Episcopo Norvicensi a Sacris Domesticis. Accedunt tractatus duo ejusdem Authoris de Speciebus & Magnitudine Figurarum Curvilinearum, Latine scripti.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: MDCCVI. [1706]- Books
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A treatise of opticks direct. Shewing, By New Observations, and from New Principles, how objects are apprehended by the visive sense, with Respect to their Distance from the Eye, and their Oblique Situation. Delivering also Plain Rules for Drawing Pictures against a Wall, to be seen Obliquely; which are likewise Applicable to the Carving Statues, to be set in high Places. To which is added, an appendix to perspective: Shewing those who are versed in that Art, the Reason, of some Disproportions in Perspective Draughts, thro' the Ill Placing the Eye; and Delivering a Rule for finding the most Commodious Distance of the Eye from the Object in that Art. By John Shuttleworth, Rector of Oborn and Lillington in the County of Dorset.
Shuttleworth, John, 1670 or 1671-1750.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
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Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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Petri Gassendi Institutio astronomica : juxta hypotheses tam veterum quàm recentiorum : cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuntius sidereus, et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice.
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655Date: 1653- Books
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A course of lectures in natural and experimental philosophy, geography and astronomy: in which the properties, affections, and phænomena of natural bodies, ... are exhibited and explain'd on the principles of the Newtonian philosphy, ... The whole confirmed by experiments, and illustrated with copper-plates. ... By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1743