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Title page from Porterfield's Treatise on the Eye
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
2007.949
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
Black and white photograph reproducing the title page from Volume 1 of an edition (1759) of William Porterfield's 'A Treatise on the Eye, The Manner and Phaenomena of Vision, in Two Volumes', including a six line quotation from Newton's 'Opticks' Query 28. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.
2007.949