Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16136

    Cartesian optical diagrams

    Date
    late 17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p389
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 215mm
    width (page): 189mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    human body
       > eye
    Description
    Optical diagrams on reflections and structure of the eye. Keyed, but with no text. Some very close to diagrams in Rene Descartes, Specimina Philosophiæ (Amsterdam: D. Elsevier, 1677). From the papers of Robert Boyle.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
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