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Lectures of experimental philosophy. Wherein The Principles of Mechanicks, Hydrostaticks, and Opticks, are Demonstrated and Explained at large, by a great Number of curious Experiments: With a Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: Of the Condensing-Engine; as also of the different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers; with several Experiments to prove and explain Sir Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colours, as performed in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy. By J. T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. Illustrated with several curious Copper Plates suitable to each Subject. To which is added, a description of Mr. Rowley's Machine, called the orrery, which represents the Motion of the Moon about the Earth, Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System: All carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr. Desaguliens.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Pictures
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Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
Date: 1 August 1795Reference: 47579i- Pictures
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A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
Reference: 25917i- Archives and manuscripts
Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832)
Leslie, John, Sir, 1766-1832.Date: 1814-1830Reference: MS.8880- Archives and manuscripts
`E.N.B.': volume of photographs of apparatus, notes on others' work (with illustrations and diagrams), offprints, graphs, notes on technique, preparations of solutions, tabular summaries of data, records of experiments, calibrations, notes on discussion, bibliography, correspondence, instructions for operation of equipment
Date: 1939-1950Reference: PP/DBD/B/23Part of: Daly, Professor Ivan de Burgh- Pictures
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A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: May 23 1802Reference: 1i- Archives and manuscripts
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Parkes Pamphlet Collection: Volume 9
Date: 1808-1818Reference: RAMC/474/9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection