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  • Albertus Magnus expounding his doctrines of physical science in the streets of Paris ca. 1245. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students experimenting in a physics laboratory. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • We, the President and Fellows of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, having duly and deliberately examined ... in the principles and practice of medicine, and in the accessory sciences, and having found him well versed therein, do by these presents, grant him a license to practise in the Faculty of Physic and do hereby certify that he is a physician and licentiate in medicine of said college ... / King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics. Etching by C.L. de Lingée after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Doctor Zirkel follows Newton's famous steps under the fabled apple tree. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.
  • A child blowing bubbles. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1761, after G. Netscher, 1670 (?).
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science: the president-elect and presidents of departments. Wood engraving, 1883.
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  • The moon, viewed in oblique sunlight. Stipple engraving, 1806, by J. Russell.
  • The moon, viewed in oblique sunlight. Stipple engraving, 1806, by J. Russell.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • The moon, viewed in full sunlight. Stipple engraving by J. Russell, 1805.
  • A physician thinking that a cobbler's use of the title "D.M." means that he is a Doctor of Medicine. Coloured etching.
  • A canon at Cuzco, Peru, in his study, studying natural sciences while his adopted children fight. Wood engraving by Picard after E. Riou.