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  • An English dictionary : explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick ... and other arts and sciences / [Elisha Coles].
  • Weekly memorials for the ingenious, or, An account of books lately set forth in several languages. With other accounts relating arts and sciences.
  • An English dictionary : explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick ... and other arts and sciences / [Elisha Coles].
  • A hermit in devotion before the Cross, turning his back on children with instruments of arts and sciences (a lute, a celestial globe, a book, and a paintbrush). Etching.
  • Astronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in the background an observatory [Greenwich?]. Engraving.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning, extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages / By E. Chambers.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • 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 woman personifying typography crowns a naked boy with a golden serpent; representing printing conferring immortality on the arts, sciences and literature. Coloured engraving by E. J. Roberts after H.J. Richter.
  • A human skull with scenes representing mental activities. Gouache painting by R. Ennis, 1991.
  • A man looking at his reflection in a mirror (?) with a dog at his feet. Gouache painting by an Indian artist(?).
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Nerves of the human body. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Thermal image of hot liquid being poured into a cold flask
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A scientist, posed with his microscope, in a drawing room setting. Photograph by Elliott and Fry.
  • A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.
  • Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität / Von Emil du Bois-Reymond.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Commercial chemical laboratory of the mid 18th Century.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the courtyard. Engraving.
  • Figure of Saraswati, Hindu Goddess, standing on a duck