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  • Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines / by Robert Boyle.
  • A woman representing truth sits in a chemical laboratory and points at the source of a ray of light, representing philosophy. Engraving by Crabb, 1817, after G.M. Brighty.
  • Cleveland, the ficitious natural son of Oliver Cromwell, sits in a library reading, but philosophy cannot prevent the conflict within him between the senses and reason. Line engraving, 1751.
  • Men and women with telescopes, gyroscopes, a balloon, battle ships, and other forms of technology; representing the benefits of philosophy and science. Engraving by E. Voysard after C.L. Desrais.
  • 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.
  • William Gladstone with Charles Bradlaugh who is splilling the content of a cup on which is written "Fruits of philosophy Bradlaugh" on to Rosebery's face; William Adam is shown behind. Engraving, ca. 1880.
  • Mr. Culpepper's Treatise of Aurum potabile. Being a description of the three-fold world, viz. elementary, celestial, intellectual. Containing the knowledge necessary to the study of hermetick philosophy ... / published by his wife.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • High matter, dark language : the philosophy of Robert Fludd (1574-1637) an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine catalogue / [prepared by] Christine English, Michael Fend and Robert Jan van Pelt.
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • [The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].
  • Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
  • A woman with five breasts on a pedestal, with attributes of nature and the elements, and with Apollo next to her seated on a cloud; men with various experimental instruments below them; representing natural philosophy. Engraving by A. Schoonebeek, 1692.
  • The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].
  • The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].
  • The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].
  • The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].
  • The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking, and in various arrangements contributing to the comfort and convenience of domestic life, adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and ... in several other public buildings / [Charles Sylvester].
  • An introduction to natural philosophy. Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford anno Dom. 1700. To which are added the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill ... Translated from the last edition of the Latin.