Optics -- Early works to 1800
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Color -- Early works to 1800
- Geometrical optics -- Early works to 1800
- Optical instruments -- Early works to 1800
- Perspective -- Early works to 1800
- Physical optics -- Early works to 1800
- Physiological optics -- Early works to 1800
- Refraction -- Early works to 1800
- Wave theory of light -- Early works to 1800
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Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light; Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (first edition, 1704), by Isaac Newton (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646), by Athanasius Kircher (page images in Germany)
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (London: Printed for H. Herringman, 1664), by Robert Boyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Tratado Instructivo y Práctico Sobre el Arte de la Tintura: Reglas Experimentadas y Metódicas para Tintar Sedas, Lanas, Hilos de Todas Clases y Esparto en Rama (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de Blas Román, 1778), by Luis Fernández
- Dissertation sur la Cause Physique de la Couleur des Negres, de la Qualité de Leurs CHeveux,et de la Degeneration de l'un et de l'Autre (in French; Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- La Perspective Pratique (second edition, 3 volumes in French; Paris: A. Dezallier, 1679), by Jean Dubreuil
- Maniere Universelle de Mr Desargues, Pour Pratiquer la Perspective par Petit-Pied, Comme le Geometral (in French; Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1648), by Gérard Desargues and Abraham Bosse (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (London: R. Knaplock, 1719) (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (third edition; London: J. Ward, 1749), by Brook Taylor and John Colson (multiple formats at Google)
- Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (third edition; London: Printed for T. Bowles and J. Bowles, 1743), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (fourth edition; includes Hodgson's "Theory of Perspective"; London: Printed for J. and C. Bowles, 1765), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, contrib. by James Hodgson
- Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc , in English and Latin (London: J. Sturt, 1707), by Andrea Pozzo, trans. by John James, illust. by John Sturt (page images at E-Rara)
- Stereography: or, A Compleat Body of Perspective, in All its Branches (2 volumes in 1; London : Printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1738), by John Hamilton (multiple formats at Google)
- Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)
- Dr. Brook Taylor's Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing Upon a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, As They Appear to the Eye (new edition; London: M. Taylor, 1835), by Brook Taylor, ed. by Joseph Jopling
- Linear Perspective; New Principles of Linear Perspective (2 books published in 1715 and 1719, bound together; some figures and first 16 pages of "Linear Perpective" main text bound out of order), by Brook Taylor (page images at Sapienza Digital Library)
- Brouillon Project d'une Atteinte aux Evenemens des Rencontres du Cone avec un Plan, par L,S,G,D,L (in French; 1639), by Gérard Desargues
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- Description de la Vision (in French; London: Shorn, 1776), by Peter Degravers, illust. by J. Dezauche (page images at NIH)
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Optics -- Industrial applications- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Optics Express (1997-) (full serial archives)
- Annual Review of Vision Science (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Optical Society of America (partial serial archives)
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science: An Investment in the Future, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times (New York: W. Helburn, c1938), by Elizabeth Burris-Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Color and its Applications (second edition; New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1921), by Matthew Luckiesh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Goethe's Theory of Colours (based on the 1840 edition), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (illustrated HTML with commentary at theoryofcolor.org)
- Goethe's Theory of Colours: Translated from the German, With Notes (London: J. Murray, 1840), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ed. by Charles Lock Eastlake (multiple formats at Google)
- The Laws of Harmonious Colouring, Adapted to Interior Decorations, Manufactures, and Other Useful Purposes (London: W. S. Orr and Co.; Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1838), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archiuve.org)
- Manual of the Science of Colour: On the True Theory of the Colour-Sensations and the Natural System (London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by William Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Painter's Companion: or, A Treatise on Colours (sixth edition, published anonymously; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823), by John Hoofnail (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Harmonies of Tones and Colours Developed by Evolution (with supplement; London and New York: Marcus Ward and Co., 1883-1885), by F. J. Hughes
- Handbuch der Angewandten Optik (only volume published, in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1891), by Adolph Steinheil and Ernst Voit, contrib. by Carl August von Steinheil and Philipp Ludwig Seidel
- Selected works and commentary, by William Rowan Hamilton (multiple formats in Ireland)
- The Difference Meter for Measuring Interior Quality of Foods and Pigments in Biological Tissues (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1965), by G. S. Birth and K. H. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
- Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
- On the Rationalization of Sight; With an Examination of Three Renaissance Texts on Perspective (papers #8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- Linearperspectiven, Anvendt paa Malerkunsten: En Raekke af Perspectiviske Studier (in Danish; Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1841), by C. W. Eckersberg, contrib. by G. F. Ursin (page images in Germany)
- The Theory and Practice of Perspective, by G. A. Storey (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)
- La Genesi Dello Scorcio nell' Arte Greca (in Italian; Rome: Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1907), by Alessandro Della Seta
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