Optics
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
A Manuscript Note-book, c 1681-c 1693
Notes on precious stones, colours, temperatures, salts, medical matters, alchemy and other subjects, in English and Latin.
Additional publications and lectures, 1949-1964
Correspondence on the Optical Convention, 1925 - 1927
Correspondence regarding the Optical Convention of 12-17 April 1926 held at Imperial College. The papers cover the Astronomer Royal's election as President of the Convention, committee meetings, rules, the presidential address and broadcast, exhibits, lists of members and officers of the Convention, a circular on the convention's activities and minutes of meetings.
George Frederick Charles Searle: Notebooks and Class Experiments
Hydrostatics, Optics, Sound and Heat, c 1672-c 1706
Drafts of 'Optics' and other miscellaneous material.
Index of Reprints, c.1925-1982
Lectiones Opticae, January 1669
Early draft.
Letter to Rivers from G. Dawes Hicks concerning some experimental results to do with research on vision. Sent from the Great Northern Hotel, Leeds, 1904-07-31
Letter to Ward from Rivers dated 18 August 1905 and sent from St John' s College, Cambridge, 1905-08-18
The letter concerns the periodical darkening of the field of one eye, and the academic treatment of this subject by German scientists (with bibliography). The recipient of the letter is presumably Professor James Ward, Lecturer in Moral Sciences and founding member of the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology
Letters to Edgar W. Cox, 16 Jun 1912 - 30 Apr 1915
Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
Notes on Sanderson's lectures in the hand of William Haswell. Includes: lectures on hydrostatics, sounds, optics (with others), mechanics, astronomy, tides, technical chronology, and the doctrine of heat and cold. With (fo. 128) copy of letter from James Bate to Hans Deveille, 3 Jan. 1726
Papers on optics, 1827 - 1848
Papers on optics and navigation, 1884 - 1900
Physics: Optics, 1943-05-10 - 1985-12-09
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Problems in Geometrical Optics, c 1666
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
Proof sheets of the edition of Newton's Opticks, with a few MS. additions by Newton
Moved to Rare Books: Adv. D. 39.3
Richard Watson: Notes of lectures
184 folios. Includes: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 2v) rough notes; (fo. 3) notes by Richard Watson of lectures given by Gerras Holmes on natural philosophy; (fo. 66) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on optics; (fo. 134) notes by Watson of lectures by Holmes on hydrostatics; (fo. 180v) 'Lectures read by Mr. Holmes of Emanuel College in Cambridge', 'Cambridge 31' and scribblings; (fo. 184) 'twells Pigott Pigott Burslem Twells'.
Sir George Gabriel Stokes: Miscellaneous Papers
The Laws of Reflection, c 1665-c 1672
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
'The Optick Artists of Chiangsu', a paper by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei Djen, 1959-01-27 - 1992-02-18
Joseph Needham's file title also reads 'Po Yü, Sun Yün-Chhiu, & Telescope & Microscope Matters'.