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Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
Date: 1 August 1795Reference: 47579i
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Specification of Ludwig Granholm : preserving vegetable and animal products.
Granholm, Ludvig.Date: 1855- Books
Tractatus, in quibus continentur suspiciones de latentibus quibusdam qualitatibus aeris; : unà cum appendice de magnetibus coelestibus, nonnullisque argumentis aliis, animadversiones in d. Hobbesii Problemata de vacuo, et dissertatio de causa attractionis per suctionem. / Authore Roberto Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]
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Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.
Date: 20 February 1796Reference: 47580i
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A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 25676i