Dioptrica nova. A Treatise of Dioptricks, in Two Parts. Wherein the Various Effects and Appearances of Spherick Glasses both convex and concave, single and combined, in telescopes and microscopes, together with their usefulness in many concerns of humane life, are explained.
London: for Benj. Tooke, 1692. First edition of the first treatise on optics in English, “which for many years served as the standard textbook on lenses” (Albury, p. 455); it includes at the end the first publication of Halley’s famous theorem for finding the focal length of a spherical lens..... More
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