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  • Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
  • A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.