An elementary treatise on optics
Henry Coddington's 1825 treatise on geometrical optics, printed at Cambridge for the university and London booksellers, teaching the subject through diagrams rather than prose. The plates are dense black-line ray diagrams showing light paths bending through lenses, mirrors, prisms and the eye, with lettered points and construction circles. A designer could draw on their clean, precise linework and the radiating beam geometry for abstract scientific graphics or pattern.
