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Hand-coloured 1850 plate of numbered optics diagrams showing lenses, prisms, an eye, a rainbow and a telescope.

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A hand-coloured plate titled Optics, numbered with diagrams of lenses, prisms, mirrors, the human eye, a rainbow and a telescope, with small figures such as dancers and a candle used to demonstrate light paths. The page is captioned Illustrations of Natural Philosophy and attributed to John Emslie, published in London in 1850.