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  • Weights and measures: marks only
  • Weights and measures: marks only
  • Weights and measures in the Exchequer, 15th century.
  • A sheet of standard weights and measures in use during the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII. Engraving, 1746, probably by I. Basire, after a manuscript of c.1497.
  • The standard of weights and measures in the Exchequer : Anno 12o. Henrici Septimi / From the original table formerly in the Treasury of the Kings Exchequer at Westminster, and preserved in the M.S. Library of the late Earl of Oxford.
  • The book of knowledge; treating of the wisdom of the ancients. In four parts. I Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... II. Prognostications for ever, necessary to keep the body in health ... III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's kalendar ... / Written by Errapater ... Made English by W. Lilley ... To which is added, The dealer's directory; containing, 1. The true form of all sorts of bills, bonds ... 2. The best method of getting in debts ... 3. An account of weights, measures, numbers, coins.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force; and diagrams of weights and paths of descent. Engraving, after 1861.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: room with bottles, measuring scales and weights, possibly the pharmacy. Photograph, 1916.
  • Double egg-cup of pewter.
  • Measures: glass
  • Printed label on box of weights.
  • Printed label on box of weights.
  • The Mughal emperor being weighed on his birthday. Coloured etching.
  • Leiden, the Netherlands: the anatomy theatre, interior of a church, town weighing establishment and portraits. Line engraving.
  • Left, forceps to cut out circular pieces of bone; right, tables of measures. Engraving with etching.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.
  • Richmond's condition powder for horses : 3lbs 3/6 : measure inside the box.
  • Nerve fibres in a healthy adult human brain, MRI.
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from the side, tractography
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from below, tractography
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from the side, deep dream
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from above, tractography
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed face on, tractography
  • Healthy brain, composite of tractography and MRI
  • Healthy human adult brain viewed from the side, tractography
  • A family threatened by influenza is prepared for a large scale bloodletting. Coloured etching, 18--.