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Title page from Aguilon's Opticorum Libri Sex
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 an edition (1613) of Francois d'Aguilon's 'Optocorum Libri Sex'. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library. Depicts various symbols of science and medicine including burning oil lamps, radiating sun, peacock, woman with eye on end of sceptre, Mercury carrying a caduceus and Minerva with the Medusa shield. There are some mathematical instruments at the bottom.


2007.955

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