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  • Back cover and binding of' 'Cullen's Practice of Physics'
  • Physics: a magnetic needle [?], with logarithmic apparatus (below). Engraving.
  • Physics: scientific equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Physics: mechanical equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Arthur Schuster and Ernest Rutherford with students: Physics Department, Manchester University. Photograph,.
  • Researcher in molecular physics laboratory
  • Researcher in molecular physics laboratory
  • Physics: effects of weight, sound, heat, light, electricity and magnetism on solids, liquids and gases. Colour lithograph by C. Bethmont.
  • Episodes illustrating forces in physics, dynamics and mechanics. Process print after J. Bartholomew.
  • Light energy : its physics, physiological action and therapeutic applications / by Margaret A. Cleaves.
  • Light energy : its physics, physiological action and therapeutic applications / by Margaret A. Cleaves.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students experimenting in a physics laboratory. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • 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.
  • An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.
  • 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.
  • Rural economy, in its relations with chemistry, physics, and meterology; or, An application of the principles of chemistry and physiology to the details of practical farming / By J.B. Boussingault. Translated with an introduction and notes by George Law.
  • Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea physic garden
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751.
  • Society of Apothecaries of London. Cedar trees in Physic Garden looking south.
  • Terracotta bust of Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the Chelsea Physic Gardens.
  • Society of Apothecaries of London. Cedar trees in Physic Garden looking north.
  • Society of Apothecaries of London. Plan of improvements to Physic Garden, 1725.
  • The "Torpedo" ball : Physic ... / C.R. Harker, Stagg & Morgan Ltd.
  • Sir Isaac Pennington in his ceremonial congregational robes as doctor of physic at Cambridge. Watercolour.
  • A doctor of physic of Oxford in his ceremonial robes, Oxford. Watercolour after T. Uwins.
  • Sir Isaac Pennington in his ceremonial robes as doctor of physic at Cambridge. Coloured pen drawing.
  • A doctor of physic in his ceremonial congregation robes at Oxford. Coloured pen drawing after T. Uwins.