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Baptist College

Central upper scene shows drawing the numbers in Coopers' Hall while the lower shows Change Alley

View of the Flora Tea Gardens

'Brittannia roused or the Coalition Monsters Destroyed'

Catoptric microscope Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Baptist CollegeView of a microscope shown on a pedestal stand: with a section through the instrument, a scheme of its optical arrangement and details of the mirror based instrument. The microscope was inspired by the Newtonian reflecting telescope. From the manuscript paper 'An account of a catoptric microscope', by Robert Barker. Not signed. Royal Society Register Book Original, vol. 19 1734 1736, pp. 256 260. The paper was read before the Royal Society on 8

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