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Wonders of light and of colour

1890 · London : [publisher not identified] · 11 pictures

A popular science primer on optics, light and colour, published anonymously in London in 1890 for general and young readers. The plates are line diagrams: convex and concave lenses shaded with stipple, dotted construction circles, ray paths with arrowheads, and lettered points, offering ready-made geometric marks, dotted arcs and hatched glass textures for diagrammatic layouts.

Light · Color · Optical illusions · Optics

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library