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Optics

Dinwiddie, Box 16, Folder D31
File
[1800?]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

In this scientific journal, James Dinwiddie focuses on optics. He begins with a series of queries related to optics and expands the discussion to the compositon and humours of the eye as well as various experiments in optics. Dinwiddie compares the eye to a camera obscura. The back portion of the journal contains notes on mathematics. This file consists of one journal.

One letter to James Dinwiddie from Dudley Adams

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A1
File
November 27, 1795

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Dudley Adams ; 1795 ; camera ; obscura ; optical ; machine ; lens ; optics

One letter to James Dinwiddie from D Burges

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A17
File
March 12, 1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::Nicholson's Journal ; Philosophical Magazine ; book binding ; "The Man on the Moon" ; 1790 ; France ; 1786 ; India ; 1791 ; Revolution ; Republican Government ; "Memoires De L'acadmie Des Science" ; Mechanical Arts ; Patent Machines ; Royal Institute ; 1805 ; optical machines ; specticales ; eye ; camera obscura

Two letters to James Dinwiddie from William Mackintosh Esq.

Dinwiddie, Box 3, Folder A71
File
September, [1792] ; N/D

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

INDICES:::bill ; chromatic ; telescope ; Mahogany ; camera obscura ; mirrors ; polyoptic ; cylindric ; machine ; microscope ; William Mackintosh Esq. ; 1792

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