Optics

Periscopic camera obscura, 1812

RS.8579

Images of objects seen through prisms, 1874

RS.9117

Unequal refrangibility of two differently coloured lights, 1874

RS.9118

Spectroscope with reflected scale, 1874

RS.9119

Prism experiments for detecting the motion of the solar system, 1786

RS.9949

Patrick Wilson’s method of determining the motion of the solar system, 2 March 1786

RS.9950

The Sun, observed through a prism , 1807

RS.10046

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10063

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10064

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10065

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10066

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10067

Spectra from light shone through prisms, 1817

RS.10068

Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, 17th century

RS.8491

Compound microscope, ca. 1810

RS.8481

Compound microscope, ca. 1810

RS.8480

Compound microscope, ca. 1843

RS.8460