Burrough's machine for grinding and polishing glass from a model in the Society of Arts, and angles of abberation for optics. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811.

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