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Science: a machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.

Facts about the Ontario Science Centre.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.

The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.

Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].

A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

The Centre for medical science and history : an introduction, May 1991.

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

In the Zone at home / Wellcome Trust.

Proposal for a Council decision concluding the Agreement amending the Agreement for scientific and technical cooperation between the European Community and Australia / presented by the Commission.

John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ...  with portrait and illustrations.

The unfinished universe / Louise B. Young.

On the interdependence of science and the healing art : being the Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1896 / [Joseph Lister].

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In the Zone at home / Wellcome Trust.

Proposal for a Council decision concluding the Agreement amending the Agreement for scientific and technical cooperation between the European Community and Australia / presented by the Commission.

John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations.

The unfinished universe / Louise B. Young.

On the interdependence of science and the healing art : being the Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1896 / [Joseph Lister].