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Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions : showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour / by J.H. Brown ; with sixteen illustrations.
Brown, J. H.Date: 1864Reference: 646382i- Pictures
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A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.
Date: [1817]Reference: 25520i- Books
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The method of calculating the magnifying power of a reflecting telescope, illustrated by example. With a general table of all the Magnifying Powers of 12 such Telescopes, from 4 to 100 Inches focal Distance of the Great Speculum.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1771]- Pictures
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An optical experiment, by which a man and an angel demonstrate that the strength of a beam of light is not proportionate to the distance which it has travelled. Engraving by T. Galle, 1613, after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [1613]Reference: 578790i- Books
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Elementa opticæ : nova, facili, & compendiosâ methodo explicata : cum schematibus aliquot (ad pleniorem elucidationem) in calce annexis.
Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660Date: 1651- Archives and manuscripts
Marmi, Josephus H.
Marmi, Josephus H.Date: c. 1695-c. 1715Reference: MSS.3445-3455- Books
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Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour / By J. H. Brown.
Brown, J. H.Date: 1865- Videos
Fibre optic bronchoscopy.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
Le covrs de mathematiqve, contenant en cent figvres vne idée generale de toutes les parties de cette science, l'vsage de ses instrumens, diuerses manieres de prendre les distances, l'art d'arpenter, diuers moyens de lever et tracer vn plan, la reduction des figures par les triangles de rapport, la trigonometrie, les fortifications regulieres & irregulieres, leurs dehors, profil, esleuation, & sciagraphie. Contenant de plus vn traité de l'vsage du globe terrestre, et vn autre de l'optique dioptrique & catoptrique ... / par le R.P. Bovrdin, de la Compagnie de Iesvs.
Bourdin, Pierre, 1595-1653.Date: 1661- Books
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The description and use of a new invented pocket reflecting microscope, With a Micrometer. The Power of Magnifying by this Microscope, and the use of the Micrometer in Measuring small Objects therein, made plain and easy by calculations. The Method of adapting this Microscope into a Walking-Cane, or Whip. The Description of an Universal Microscope, or the Method of mounting the Microscope on a Ball and Socket that renders it of universal Use. The Double Micrometer described, and its Use in the universal Microscope explained. The way of computing the Power of Magnifying in Telescopes, and of measuring the Heavenly Bodies by the Double Micrometer, fitted thereto. Instructions for rightly using the Microscope, Telescope, &c. The whole illustrated with Copper-Plate Figures. By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1739?]- Pictures
Malignant abscess in the stomach of a 68-year old man with cancer of the stomach, view from gastroscope. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1948.
Nicholson, BarbaraDate: 1948Reference: 32672iPart of: Barbara Nicholson medical illustration collection.- Videos
Fibre optic bronchoscopy.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
Pike's illustrated catalogue of scientific instruments / by Benjamin Pike, Jr. ; with a new introduction by Deborah Jean Warner ; and a new table of contents and index to instruments.
Pike, Benjamin, 1777-1864.Date: 1993- Books
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An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn, From the Principles of Optics, and the Nature of the Eye, that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, to the nature of things, &c. and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed. The whole illustrated by a large copper-plate print. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1756]- Books
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The young gentleman and lady's philosophy, in a continued survey of the works of nature and art; by way of dialogue. ... . containing, The Philosophy of the Heavens and of the Atmosphere. Illustrated by Thirty-Three copper-plates. The second edition corrected. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Zoonomia, or, The laws of organic life : vol. I / by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S. author of The botanic garden.
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.Date: 1796- Books
Opuscoli del dottor Don Gio. Battista Hodierna : 1. Il nunzio della terra. 2. La nuvola pendente. 3. L'occhio della mosca. 4. Il sole del microcosmo.
Hodierna, Giovanni Battista, 1597-1660.Date: 1644- Books
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A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and S. Jones, No.135, Holborn, London.
W. and S. Jones (Mathematical Instrument Makers)Date: 1795- Pictures
An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.
Date: [1741?]Reference: 16583iPart of: Tombeaux des princes, grands capitaines et autres hommes illustres, qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne vers la fin du XVII et le commencement du XVIII siècle ... le tout dirigé & mis au jour, par les soins de Eugene Mac-Swiny.- Books
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A supplement to the Philosophia Britannica. Appendix I. Containing New Experiments in electricity, and The Method of making artificial magnets. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Archives and manuscripts
Zisat, Johann Baptist
Zisat, Johann BaptistDate: 1618Reference: MS.801- Videos
Biological containment : Microbiological safety cabinets.
Date: 1980s- Archives and manuscripts
Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739)
Saunderson, Nicholas, 1682-1739Date: 1736Reference: MS.4374- Books
Maw's illustrated catalogue 1949 : chemists' sundries, surgical appliances, display, optical and veterinary requisites.
S. Maw, Son & Sons.Date: [1949?]- Books
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the Sector, the Gunter, and the Proportional Compasses, with a practical application, Exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1800?]