Opticae Thesaurus

Item author: Alhazen
Item date: 1572
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 23,895
Item date acquired: 1976
Item institution: Royal College of Art
Town/City: London

The earliest book in a collection of 842 volumes on colour. Also includes Goethes Farbenlehre 1810, Newtons Optics 1704, Kunckels Ars Vitraria Experimentalis 1689 and Portals Symbolic Colours 1844.