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Dedication Page from Cherubin's La Dioptrique Oculaire
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
2007.950
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
Black and white photograph reproducing a page from an edition (1671) of Cherubin D'Orleans' 'La Dioptrique Oculaire', including the dedication to Secretary of State Colbert beneath a tableau illustration featuring putti using telescopes and other observation equipment lined up against a steeple on a far off hilltop. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.
2007.950