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An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England; in a catalogue of the English fossils in the collection of J. Woodward, M. D. Containing A Description and Historical Account of each; with Observations and Experiments, made in order to discover, as well the Origin and Nature of them, as their Medicinal, Mechanical, and other Uses. Part I. Of the Fossils that are real and natural: Earths, Stone, Marble, Talcs, Coralloids, Spars, Crystals, Gemms, Bitumens, Salts, Marcasites, Minerals, and Metals. ...
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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Oratio de novo physiologiæ explicandæ munere, ex Celeberrimi Woodwardi Testamento instituto: Habita Cantabrigiae in Scholis Publicis a Conyers Middleton, S. T. P. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Protobibliothecario & Lectore ibidem Woodwardiano.
Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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A natural history of fossils. By Emanuel Mendes da Costa. Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London, and Member of the Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum of Germany.
Mendes da Costa, Emanuel, 1717-1791.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Fossils of all kinds, digested into a method, suitable to their mutual relation and affinity; With The Names by which they were known to the Antients, and those by which they are at this Day known: And Notes conducing to the setting forth the Natural History, and the main Uses, of some of the most considerable of them. As also several papers tending to the further advancement of the knowledge of minerals, of the Ores of Metalls, and of all other Subterraneous Productions. By John Woodward, M. D. late Professor of Physick at Gresham College, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and the Royal Society.
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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An introduction to mineralogy: or, an accurate classification of fossils and minerals, viz. Earths, Stones, Salts, Inflammables and Metallic Substances. To which are added I. A Discourse on the Generation of Mineral Bodies. II. Dr. Lehman's Tables on the Affinities of Salts. III. Tables on the specific Gravities of mineral Bodies. IV. A View of their respective Powers as Conductors of Electricity. By John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. And Tutor in the Modern Languages and Natural History in the Warrington Academy.
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]