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Imagination

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  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • The eyes of a man; expressing, according to Lavater, a character upon which "you can easily impose, unless his imagination be heated by his uncommon vivacity". Drawing, c. 1794.
  • The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • An artist painting a woman with a hand mirror and the devil; representing the faculty of the imagination. Engraving, 16--.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • The profile of an imaginative man in a state of fear (left), and a woman afraid (right). Drawing, c. 1789.
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Catalogue

  • view Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de imaginatione morborum causa ac remedio : quam ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Oswaldus Hunter ... Ad diem 24 Junii.
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    Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de imaginatione morborum causa ac remedio : quam ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Oswaldus Hunter ... Ad diem 24 Junii.

    Hunter, Oswald. | Date: 1803
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    An essay on the freedom of will in God and in creatures, and on Various Subjects connected therewith. Viz. The Ideas of Liberty and Necessity; The Causes of the Determination of the Will; The Use of the Understanding to direct, not to determine it; The Liberty of God as a Creator, a Governor, and a Benefactor; The Doctrine of Fatality; The Spring of Moral Good and Evil; The Difference between Moral and Positive Laws; The Sin and Fall of Man, and the Free Grace of God; The Rewardableness of Faith in the Gospel, and the criminal Nature of Infidelity.

    | Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
  • view Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.
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    Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

    Galton, Sir Francis, 1822-1911. | Date: 1880
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    Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.

    Rocke, Alan J., 1948- | Date: 2010
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    The pleasures of imagination. A poem. In three books. By Dr. Akenside.

    Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770. | Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]
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