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Brief candle in the dark : my life in science / Richard Dawkins.
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-Date: 2015- Books
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The divine right of the revolution: in two sermons on the Fifth of November 1707, and 1708. By Thomas Bradbury.
Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759.Date: 1709 [1708]- Books
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An Act for reviving, continuing, and appropriating certain duties upon several commodities to be exported; and certain duties upon coals to be water-born and carried coastwise; and for granting further duties upon candles, for thirty two years, to raise fifteen hundred thousand pounds, by way of a lottery, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and eleven; and for suppressing such unlawful lotteries, and such insurance offices as are therein mentioned.
Great Britain.Date: 1710 [i.e. 1711]]- Books
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Reflection on a candle, in an irregular ode. By John Wallis, M.A.
Wallis, John, 1714-1793.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
Die Kerze als Symbol des Arzttums / von Annemarie Lipp und Georg B. Gruber.
Lipp, Annemarie.Date: 1959- Books
A candle was lit : life of Mother Mary Aikenhead / by Margery Bayley Butler.
Butler, Margery Bayley.Date: 1953- Pictures
Christmas tree decorations: a candle, baubles, a fairy etc. Watercolour by P. Day, 1966.
Day, Patricia, active approximately 1966.Date: Dec. 66 [December 1966]Reference: 2924464iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A Chinese man standing, seen from behind holding a candle above his head. Watercolour.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 727345iPart of: Single Chinese figures in different poses. Album of watercolours.- Books
The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark / Carl Sagan.
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.Date: 1996- Books
The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark / Carl Sagan.
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.Date: [1996], ©1996- Books
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An act for laying additional duties on hides and skins, vellom and parchment, and new duties on starch, coffee, tea, drugs, gilt and silver wire, and policies of insurance, to secure a yearly fund for satisfaction of orders to the contributors of a further sum of one millio eight hundred thousand pounds towards Her Majesties supply; and for the better securing the duties on candles; and for obviating doubts concerning certain payments in Scotland; and for suppressing unlawful lotteries, and other devices of the same kind; and concerning cake-sope; and for relief o Mary Ravenall, in relation to an annuity of eighteen pounds per annum; and concerning prize cocoa nuts brought from America; and certain tickets which were intended to be subscribed into the stock of the South-Sea Company; and for appropriating the monies granted in this session of Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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An Act for laying additional duties on hides and skins, vellom and parchment, and new duties on starch, coffee, tea, drugs, gilt and silver wire, and policies of insurance, to secure a yearly fund for satisfaction of orders to the contributors of a further sum of one million eight hundred thousand pounds towards Her Majesties supply; and for the better securing the duties on candles; and for obviating doubts concerning certain payments in Scotland; and for suppressing unlawful lotteries, and other devices of the same kind; and concerning cake-sope; and for relief of Mary Ravenall, in relation to an annuity of eighteen pounds per annum; and concerning prize cocoa nuts brought from America; and certain tickets which were intended to be subscribed into the stock of the South-Sea Company; and for appropriating the monies granted in this session of Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1718- Pictures
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The witch of Endor with a candle. Engraving by J. Kay, 1805, after A. Elsheimer.
Elsheimer, Adam, 1578-1610.Date: 1805Reference: 40384i- Pictures
A Chinese candle-lit dinner with two female musicians and three male diners. Gouache painting.
Reference: 580683iPart of: Chinese costumes and designs and views of Western towns, buildings and ports- Pictures
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A seated man and a girl look at a candle held by a woman. Oil painting by S. Jenner, 1871.
Jenner, Stephen, 1796-Date: 1871Reference: 560843i- Books
To light such a candle : chapters in the history of science and technology / by Keith J. Laidler.
Laidler, Keith J. (Keith James), 1916-2003.Date: 1998- Books
The candle revisited : essays on science and technology / edited by P. Day and C.R.A. Catlow.
Date: 1994- Pictures
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A garrotted man in a dungeon next to a burning candle. Etching by F. de Goya y Lucientes.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Reference: 43423i- Pictures
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A candle burning at both ends representing the effect of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after A. Jaar, 1993.
Jaar, Alfredo.Date: [1993]Reference: 672747iPart of: Images pour la lutte contre le SIDA- Pictures
A nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows, 1840.
Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.Date: 1840Reference: 11738i- Pictures
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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.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 37371i- Books
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Practical discourses on several important and useful subjects. By the Late Reverend Mr. John Ashwood, Minister of the Gospel at Peckham.
Ashwood, John, 1657-1706.Date: 1710- Archives and manuscripts
John Candler
Date: c 1890Reference: RET 1/8/9/1/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Pictures
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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.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 25676i- Books
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Lord Stonefield reporter. Information for Grizel Dalrymple, spouse to Daniel Rae, candle-maker in Dalkeith; against David Chalmers, butcher in Dalkeith.
Dalrymple, Grizel.Date: 1768]