Benjamin Martin: A New and Compendious System of Optics in Three Parts

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Benjamin Martin : A New and Compendious System of Optics in Three Parts

James Hodges, London, 1740

Privately Printed [ARC]. Part I: Captoptrics, or the doctrine of vision by rays reflected from mirrors or polished surfaces; Part II: Dioptrics, or the theory of vision by rays refracted through lenses or transparent substances; Part III: A practical description of a great number of the most useful optical instruments and machines and their construction shown from theory, the eye, the camera obscura, single and double microscopes, refracting and reflecting telescopes, perspective glasses and magic lanthorn etc., the manner of adapting micrometers to microscopes and telescopes of the reflecting sort. Limited to 125 numbered copies, this being NO. 32.. Illustr.: Plates. -- Faithfully Reproduced --. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Card Covers

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