Optical experiment posters & prints

Unequal refrangibility of two differently coloured lights C Laplante

Roundel for use in optical experiments Robert Waring Darwin

Fun with Optics Anonymous

Light, c1850 Unknown

Spectra from light shone through prisms Anonymous

Newton experimenting with light. From a painting J. A. Houston

Double reflecting microscope Unknown

Reflecting Mirror Igniting Fire Anonymous

Powell & Lealand microscope Hugh Powell

Compound microscope William Cary

Compound microscope William Cary

A Trompe l'Oeil Letter Rack with Letters and a Medallion Jean Valette-Penot

Polyorama Panoptique and Slides. France, mid-19th century Unknown

Two Putti with Flames of Love 'Allegory of Love', 1696 Adriaan van der Werff

Galerie des vues de la Rome antique, 1758 Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini

The Infant Christ and Saint John the Baptist as children embracing in a landscape, surrounded by a classical archway Joos van Cleve

Dome of the Church of St Ignatius, 1685 Andrea Pozzo

Light Beam Through Glass Prism Anonymous

Optical studies Leonardo Da Vinci

Optical studies Leonardo Da Vinci

Optical effects in crystalline materials under pressure David Brewster

Hunting Equipment Johannes Leemans

Frauhofer diffraction patterns generated through different apertures L Schwerd

Catoptric microscope Robert Barker

Optical Illusions Anonymous

Starfire Adaptive Optics Telescope Anonymous

Fantascope disc, 1833. Thomas Mann Baynes

Giant burning glass of the Academie des Sciences, Paris, 18th century, (1874). Amedee Guillemin

Fantascope disc, 1833. Thomas Mann Baynes

Anamorphosis of Rubens Domenico the Elder Piola

Rack Picture for Dr. Nones, 1879 William A. (attr.to) Mitchell

Newton's experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757 Unknown

Fantascope disc, 1833. Thomas Mann Baynes

Spectra from light shone through prisms Anonymous

Blond woman magnifying glass held up to and enlarging one eye Anonymous

Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. Thomas Mann Baynes