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  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • Mathematics: a graph-plotting machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • Mathematics: details of a dividing engine for making mathematical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mathematics: cutaway diagrams of the internal workings of Pascal's calculating machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children learning mathematics in the hospital school. Photograph, 1921.
  • Hercules holds up the world between two philosophers representing astronomy and mathematics. Etching by P. Aquila after G. Rossi after Annibale Carracci.
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.
  • Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.
  • Christ's Hospital, London: the Mathematical School. Etching in two colours by B. Green, 1793, after himself, 1775.
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • The new royal Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, complete, modern and universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... / [Edited] By G.S. Howard ... The mathematical ... and geographical parts, &c. revised by J. Bettesworth ... The historical ... departments, inspected by H. Boswell ... The philosophical, critical ... theological, musical, and other scientific subjects, revised ... by F. Stonehouse ... and others.
  • Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • Science: a pair of blow-pipes (above), and a calculating engine (below). Wood engraving, 1841.
  • Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
  • A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
  • Inventions: various things beginning with "A". Engraving by A. Bell.
  • An alchemist at his alembic; surrounded by vignettes of scientific pursuits. Wood engraving by Dalziel, 18--.
  • Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas et fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post cabalistarum, Arabum, gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera et licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • The hand of God spans out heaven with a compass while surrounded by angels. Line engraving by Robert Pranker, ca. 1761.
  • Leonardo de Piero Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • A woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Three figures of the muscles of the foot, showing the sole of the foot progressively dissected.
  • Urania, the muse of astronomy. Engraving by L. Kilian (?), 16--.