Faraday's magnetic sparking coil

M0018514: "Les Effets du Magnetisme.....animal", French satirical drawing

Physics: a magnetic needle [?], with logarithmic apparatus (below). Engraving.

Magnetism: electrical equipment and magnetic phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850.

A. Kircher, Magnes sive de arte magnetica op

1 volume 8 leaves + 1 l. + 154 pp. + 2 bl. leaves folio. 321/2 x 21 cm. Unbound.

Bruno, Louis de

Cotton, Aimé Auguste (1869-1951)

4 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to (23 cm)

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.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0002526: First magnetic sparking coil made by Michael Faraday

1 volume 290 leaves 4to. 22 x 16 cm. Paper. The last section is on vellum. 18th century half calf binding.No. 1 On the first leaf is an ornamental initial S, in blue and red with floreated border decoration in red and blue, and red and green: in the lower margin an emblazoned coat of arms [Aldobrandino di Lippo of Florence ?]. Other initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. (59 leaves)Nos 19 and 20 are illustrated with rough pen-drawings of apparatus, diagrams, etc. No. 14 has a circular pen-drawn zodiacal figure in black and red on foleave 3. 27 has a geomantic figure inred on foleave 36, and zodiacal-geomantic tables in red and black on foleave 37v and foleave 38.

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)

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Bruno, Louis de

Cotton, Aimé Auguste (1869-1951)

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.

M0002526: First magnetic sparking coil made by Michael Faraday

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)

Magnetism

Images from the collections

Images about Magnetism

Works from the collections

Bruno, Louis de

Cotton, Aimé Auguste (1869-1951)

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.

M0002526: First magnetic sparking coil made by Michael Faraday

Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)

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