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Optics Collection

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Optics Collection: Letter from Sir Issac Newton to William Briggs, 20th June 1682. Artist: Isaac Newton
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Optics Collection: Professor Robert Wood, portrait photograph, 1932. Creator: Arnold Genthe
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Optics Collection: Professor Robert Wood, portrait photograph, 1932. Creator: Arnold Genthe
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Optics Collection: Design: Camera Obscura, from Encyclopédie, 1762/77. Creator: A. J. Defehrt
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Optics Collection: Design: Camera Obscura, from Encyclopédie, 1762/77. Creator: A. J. Defehrt
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Optics Collection: A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kobo Da
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Optics Collection: I. Newton, (1642-1727), 1830. Creator: Unknown
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Optics Collection: Hans Jansen and his son Sacharias, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
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Optics Collection: Microscope made by C Reichert, Vienna, 1895. Artist: C Reichert
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Optics Collection: Stereoopticon, c. 1937. Creator: William Spiecker
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Optics Collection: Moritz Hermann von Jacobis Telegraph, 1843. Creator: Historic Object
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Optics Collection: Portrait of Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (1801-1874), 1837. Creator: Hau, Eduard (1807-1887)
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Optics Collection: Huygens, (1629-1695), 1830. Creator: Unknown
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Optics Collection: Camera obscura. From Encyclopedie by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d Alembert, 1751-1765
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Optics Collection: Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 1646. Creator: Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
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Optics Collection: Comparative depiction of the human eye and the camera obscura, 18th century. Creator: Anonymous
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Optics Collection: Technician installing eye-glasses in helmet. Creator: NASA
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Optics Collection: Polyorama Panoptique, c1851
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Optics Collection: Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, 1924
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Optics Collection: Thomsons Lantern, 19th century(?)
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Optics Collection: Christiaan Huygens, 17th century Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, c1870
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Optics Collection: Optical studies, late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
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Optics Collection: Reflections of the sun on water, late 15th or early 16th century (1954). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
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Optics Collection: A letter from Isaac Newton, and a view of his birthplace at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, 1682, (1840)
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Optics Collection: Roger Bacon, 13th century English Franciscan friar and philosopher, (c1850)
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Optics Collection: The Spectacles Seller, Eyesight (from the series The Five Senses ), 17th century
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Optics Collection: Sir David Brewster, 19th century Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. Artist: DJ Pound
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Optics Collection: Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692
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Optics Collection: William Herschels reflecting telescope of 40 ft (12 m) focal length, 1789 (1807)
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Optics Collection: David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1868
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Optics Collection: Galileo demonstrating his telescope, Venice, 1609 (1870)
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Optics Collection: Microscopes and microscopical objects, 1750
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Optics Collection: Universal joint invented by Robert Hooke, 1676
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Optics Collection: Newtons experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757
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Optics Collection: Optical phenomena observed and described by Sir Isaac Newton, 1704
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Optics Collection: William Wollastons reflecting goniometer for measuring the angles of crystals, 1874
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Optics Collection: Plate measuring microscope, 1895
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Optics Collection: Light, c1850
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Optics Collection: Hans Lippershey, Dutch optician credited with the discovery of the telescope, 1655
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Optics Collection: Discovery of the principle of the telescope, 17th century (1863)
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Optics Collection: Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1800s. Artist: William Holl
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Optics Collection: Joseph Jackson Lister, English wine merchant and amateur microscopist, 1830s. Artist: Maull & Co
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Optics Collection: Archimedes Burning Mirror, device used at the Siege of Syracuse, 215-212 BC (1642)
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Optics Collection: Experiment showing that prismatic colours cannot be split further, 1747
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Optics Collection: Isaac Newtons prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747
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Optics Collection: Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704
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Optics Collection: The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth, c1990s
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Optics Collection: Microscope by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch, c1670


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