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Image number: RS.8626
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Cod eye lens under polarised light
Date
1816
Creator
David Brewster (1781 - 1868, British) , Natural philosopher
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Dimensions
height (painting): 256mm
width (painting): 204mm
width (painting): 204mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 12 figures 1-6 from the paper "On the structure of the crystalline lens in fishes and quadrupeds, as ascertained by its action on polarised light", by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.106 (1816), pp.311-317. Brewster compares the structures displayed by a fish eye lens with those of a sphere of crown glass (figure 5). The paintings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "Ruse & Turners 1813."
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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