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Frontispiece from Gassendi's Institutio Astronomica, Galileo's Nuntius Sidereus and Kepler's Dioptrice
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm

Black and white photograph reproducing frontispiece from an edition (1653) of Gassendi's Institutio Astronomica, to which is appended a copy of Galileo's Nuntius Sidereus and Kepler's Dioptrice. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.


2007.935

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