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A seated young man with clenched fists, leaning against an ornate table. Photograph by A.E. Scales.
Scales, A. E. (Artist, photographer)Reference: 39028i- Books
The alternatives growth and defense : resource allocation at multiple scales in plants : International Leopoldina Symposium / editors: Rainer Matyssek, Ulrich Lüttge, Heinz Rennenberg.
Date: 2013- Pictures
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Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) and Taurus (the bull). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583109i- Books
Supplement to First report of Nurses Salaries Committee : notes on application of scales of salary (with examples) for the guidance of hospital authorities.
Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.Date: 1943- Pictures
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The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
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A woman stands behind the counter of a butcher's shop in France weighing meat on the scales for a customer. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
Lhermitte, Léon Augustin, 1844-1925.Date: [1881]Reference: 29772i- Pictures
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A boy with a variety of icthyosis, a skin disease, which in this case resembles the scales of an alligator. Stipple engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1818.
Date: 8th July 1818Reference: 2923i- Pictures
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Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans. Engraving by G. Scott, 1805, after Bell.
Date: May 31 1805Reference: 29754i- Books
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions in astronomie, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1652- Books
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usual propositions in astronomy, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30 and 60 gr. of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1654- Ephemera
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New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, 23, New Bond Street. This young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales ...
Date: [between 1810 and 1820?]- Pictures
Justice, holding scales, points to a woman squeezing her breasts, representing the role of justice in nourishing mankind. Engraving by G. Audran, 1675, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: 1675Reference: 2897458i- Books
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Remarks on the general and particular construction of the scales of some of the Lepidoptera, as bearing on the structure of the 'test scale' of Lepidocyrtus curvicollis / by R.L. Maddox.
Maddox, Richard Leach, 1816-1902?Date: [1871]- Books
The compositor's and pressman's guide to the art of printing. Containing hints and instructions to learners, with various impositions, calculations, scales of prices, &c. &c / by C. Stower, printer.
Stower, C. (Caleb), 1778 or 1779-1816.Date: 1808- Pictures
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A baby and a man being weighed on scales: dosing schedule for Artemether-lumefantrine: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756097i- Books
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The description and use of an architectonick sector, and also of the architectonick sliding plates, Whereby scales of all sizes are most readily and universally obtain'd for fluting pillasters and columns, and drawing the geometrical plans and uprights, in any of the five orders, according to the given diameter of a column. With several other scales, very convenient and ready for the practice of the ingenious designers of building.The second edition. To which is added, an appendix, shewing the application and usefulness of the architectonick setor lines in drawing the geometrical plan and upright of a building. By T. Carwitham, painter.
Carwitham, T. (Thomas).Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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New methods of calculating plans and maps, by proportional scales and squares. To which are added, tables for measuring, inclosing, and planting of ground. By John Leslie, surveyor of ground.
Leslie, John (Surveyor)Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
The mental growth of children from two to fourteen years : a study of the predictive value of the Minnesota preschool scales / by Florence L. Goodenough and Katharine M. Maurer.
Goodenough, Florence L. (Florence Laura), 1886-1959.Date: 1942- Pictures
A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette, 1758-1836.Date: [1790?]Reference: 37207i- Pictures
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Standing male figure, rear view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: [1879]Reference: 568737i- Pictures
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Standing male figure, front view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: [1879]Reference: 568735i- Pictures
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Standing female figure, front view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: [1879]Reference: 568736i- Pictures
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Standing female figure, rear view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes a detail of a foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: [1879]Reference: 568738i- Books
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The description and use of an architectonick sector, and also of the architectonick sliding plates whereby scales of all sizes are most readily and universally obtain'd for fluting pillasters and columns, and Drawing the Geometrical Planes and Uprights, in any of the Five orders, according to the given Diameter of a Column. With several other scales, very Convenient and Ready for the Practice of the Ingenious Designers of Buildings. By T. Carwitham of Twickenham.
Carwitham, T. (Thomas).Date: 1723- Pictures
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The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Apr. 1st 1808Reference: 579403i