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Frontispiece from Zahn's Oculus Artificialis
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm

Black and white photograph reproducing the frontispiece from an edition (1685) of Zahn's 'Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive telescopium'. From the copy in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library. Depicts two winged serpents entwined around a vertically aligned telescope with an eye radiating beams at the top, the scene set between two gate posts within a courtyard.


2007.954

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