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The Elements of Optics: Designed for the Use of Students in the University. By James Wood, B.D. Second edition. 1801.

251 pages. Split into 13 sections; On the Nature of Light; On the Laws of Reflection; On the Laws of Refraction; On the Reflection of Rays at Plane and Spherical Surfaces; On Images formed by Refraction; On the Eye; On Optical Instruments; On Aberrations produced by the Unequal Restrangibility of different Rays; On Aberrations produced by the Spherical Form of Reflecting and Refracting Surfaces; On the Rainbow; On Caustics.

Accession number CCWSH:1343
Category Book
Date 1801
Dimensions length: 215mm, width: 135mm