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The Wonders of Optics

by Fulgence Marion

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Part I — The Phenomena of Vision
  3. 3Chapter II — The Structure of the Eye
  4. 4Chapter III — The Errors of the Eye
  5. 5Chapter IV — Optical Illusions
  6. 6Chapter V — The Appreciation of Colour
  7. 7Chapter VI — Illusions Caused by Light Itself
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Influence of the Imagination
  9. 9Part II — The Laws of Light
  10. 10Chapter II — The Solar Spectrum
  11. 11Chapter III — Other Causes of Colour
  12. 12Chapter IV — Luminous, Calorific, Chemical, and Magnetic Properties…
  13. 13Chapter V — The Laws of Reflection — Mirrors
  14. 14Chapter VI — Metallic Burning Mirrors
  15. 15Chapter VII — Lenses
  16. 16Chapter VIII — Optical Instruments — The Simple and Compound Micros…
  17. 17Chapter IX — The Telescopes of Galileo, Gregory, Newton, Herschel,…
  18. 18Part III — Natural Magic
  19. 19Chapter II — The Phantasmagoria
  20. 20Chapter III — Other Optical Illusions
  21. 21Chapter IV — The Properties of Mirrors
  22. 22Chapter V — Chinese Shadows
  23. 23Chapter VI — Polyorama — Dissolving Views — Diorama
  24. 24Chapter VII — The Stereoscope
  25. 25Chapter VIII — The Camera Obscura and Camera Lucida
  26. 26Chapter IX — The Spectroscope
  27. 27Chapter X — Spectres — The Ghost Illusion

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