Engraving depicting Giuseppe Piazzi's refracting telescope with achromatic lens built by Jesse Ramsden. Giuseppe Piazzi an Italian Catholic priest of...
Giuseppe Piazzi's Palermo Circle: refracting telescope with achromatic lens of 5 ft local length. Piazzi used this instrument to discover the...
Giuseppe Piazzi's Palermo Circle: refracting telescope with achromatic lens of 5 ft local length. Piazzi used this instrument to discover the...
Photograph of a scientific instrument exhibited in the Special Loan Collections of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum, 1876. This...
Engraving from the Illustrated London News, showing the machinery used to move the telescope known as 'The Leviathan of Parsonstown'. The Rosse...
Photograph of an equatorially mounted heliometer, of 7 inch aperture, at the Cape Observatory, in South Africa. Made by Repsold and Sons, Hamburg in...
Photograph of the observatory building for the seven inch aperture heliometer at the Cape Observatory, South Africa. Made by Repsold and Sons,...
Photograph of a 7 inch refracting telescope on an equatorial mounting built by Thomas Cooke and Sons Limited of York, England in 1921. This...
Printed Handbill giving a description of an improved achromatic telescope being sold by the English optical instrument makers Peter and George...
Print of the refracting telescope assembled by Edward Joshua Cooper in 1831. It was fitted with a 13.5 inch lens acquired from the French optician...
Engraving of the 'Great Equatorial', a 12-inch refracting telescope at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . Merz of Munich, Germany made the telescope...
This miniature telescope is a instrument that has been variously called an opera or prospect glass. It is a small Galilean telescope that provides a...
Selection of four miniature telescopes, a type of instrument that has been variously called an opera or prospect glass. These are small Galilean...
One of the few microscopes made by John Marshall that bears a date. The bottom of the drawer is stamped with the date 1715, and bears the signature...
Following the publication of Robert Hooke�s �Micrographia� in 1665, English makers, notably John Marshall began to produce large compound microscopes...
One of the few microscopes made by John Marshall that bears a date. The bottom of the drawer is stamped with the date 1715, and bears the signature...
Detail of the turret section of a tent-type camera obscura made by Charles Chevalier, Paris during the second quarter of the 19th century. It...
Detail of the turret section of a tent-type camera obscura made by Charles Chevalier, Paris during the second quarter of the 19th century. It...
Turret section of a tent-type camera obscura made by Newton & Co, London, in the 1850s. This consists of an adjustable right-angle glass prism with...
Tent-type camera obscura made by Charles Chevalier, Paris during the second quarter of the 19th century. It consists of a turret with an adjustable...
Tent-type camera obscura made by Charles Chevalier, Paris during the second quarter of the 19th century. It consists of a turret with an adjustable...
William Storer�s �Royal Delineator�, an advanced form of camera obscura which was granted a British patent . The superior design of the instrument...
William Storer�s �Royal Delineator�, an advanced form of camera obscura which was granted a British patent . The superior design of the instrument...
William Storer�s �Royal Delineator�, an advanced form of camera obscura which was granted a British patent . The superior design of the instrument...
The working instrument of R B Tolles of Boston, Massachusetts. It has a nosepiece and fine adjustment, and the stage has a hemispherical condensing...
Bust by D Brucciani of Andrew Ross , the founder of a photographic-lens making dynasty. Ross was the first optician in England to produce achromatic...
Sir George Shuckburgh commissioned this telescope from the famous London instrument maker Jesse Ramsden in 1781 but it was only completed ten years...
This reflecting telescope was made by the famous London instrument maker, James Short . It is one of several telescopes ordered by the Royal Society...
This reflecting telescope was made by the famous London instrument maker, James Short . It is one of several telescopes ordered by the Royal Society...
This reflecting telescope was made by the famous London instrument maker, James Short . It is one of several telescopes ordered by the Royal Society...
This reflecting telescope was made by the famous London instrument maker, James Short . It is one of several telescopes ordered by the Royal Society...
Detail showing a heliometer, a split-lens micrometer originally used to measure the angular size of the Sun. Made by the famous London instrument...
Detail showing a heliometer, a split-lens micrometer originally used to measure the angular size of the Sun. Made by the famous London instrument...
This brass telescope was made by the London instrument maker partnership of W & S Jones. The instrument has a 3 1/4 inch aperture main lens and is...
Made by the London instrument maker Charles Tulley, this brass telescope has a 3 1/4 inch aperture lens and is mounted on a yoke stand with braced...
This small brass telescope was made in London by either Jonathan Sissons or his son, Jeremiah. The instrument has a 1 1/4 inch lens and is carried on...
This brass telescope was made by the London instrument makers Peter and George Dollond. It has a 2 3/4 inch lens and is carried on an equatorial...
This telescope was made by the American instrument maker Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The telescope has a 4-inch aperture...
Completed in 1848, this heliometer was made by A & G Repsold of Hamburg, Germany and installed at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. It was the...
Peter Dollond English optician, eldest son of John Dollond. Optical instrument designer and maker who worked with his father and nephew in London....
English supporters play bagpipe before the Rugby Union World Cup match England v. USA at the Felix Bollaert stadium in Lens, northern France, 08...
Long focal length refracting telescope, 1728. The lenses for this instrument were made by Francesco Campani, Italian lens maker of Bologna. From...
Dr G H Byford stands under an optokinetic drum wearing a contact lens with a miniature lamp cemented to the lens, during an experiment to investigate...
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old engraved illustration of optics, a spherometer is an instrument used for the precise measurement of the radius of curvature of a curved surface (primarily used by opticians to measure the curvature of the surface of a lens) - lens optical instrument stock-fotos und bilder
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Reballio, Extendable, ivory viewer with two lenses, monocular viewer ivory metal brass glass wood ebony textile felt stretched, rotated cut...
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Long focal length refracting telescope, 1728. The lenses for this instrument were by Francesco Campani, Italian lens maker of Bologna. From Hesperi...
Peter Dollond English optician, eldest son of John Dollond. Optical instrument designer and maker who worked with his father and nephew in London....