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Standing male figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: 1879Reference: 568732i- Pictures
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Standing female figure, side view, with scales of proportion: illustration shows the skeleton and outline of the body and includes details of an arm and foot. Lithograph by J.S. Cuthbert, 1789.
Cuthbert, J. C.Date: [1879]Reference: 568734i- Books
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A thermometrical table on the scales of Fahrenheit, centigrade and Reamur : comprising the most remarkable phenomena connected with temperature, in relation to climatology, physical geography, chemistry, and physiology / by Alfred S. Taylor.
Date: 1845- Pictures
An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
Mainoto, Pietro.Reference: 16371i- Pictures
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George Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, holding a pair of unbalanced scales representing his budget, while William Pitt the elder and others mock him and make suggestions for reducing the British government's debt. Etching, 1765.
Date: [1765]Reference: 31513i- Pictures
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Leprosy on the ears and face of an Indian schoolboy; circular inserts show microscopic details of scales on his ears. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
Date: 1921-1950Reference: 567239i- Books
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Decorations for parks and gardens. Designed for gates, garden seats, alcoves, temples, baths, entrance gates, lodges, facades, prospects for towers Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also A Hot House & Hot Wall: with plans & scales on 55 plates.
Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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Anatomy of snakes: eight figures, including scales, a fang, the tails of a boa and a columber snake, and the heads of three species, including a rattle snake, all shown with open jaws. Line engraving after a drawing by S. Edwards (?), 1809.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: Feb. 1 1809Reference: 571519i- Archives and manuscripts
Report of a Committee assembled by order of HE the C-in-C India, for the purpose of examining certain matters relating to the rations of both British and Indian troops and to submit proposals for any changes in the existing scales of rations
Date: 1918Reference: GC/185/22Part of: Sir William Henry Willcox: observations on beri-beri, scurvy, etc- Ephemera
Francis Watkins, optician, at Charing Cross, London : makes spectacles of all sorts, ground in the correctest manner, and set in gold, silver and tortoiseshell ... money weights and scales finished with the greatest exactness = Francois Watkins, opticien, à Charing Cross, à Londres.
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: [1777?]- Books
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M. de Luc's rule for measuring heights by the barometer, reduced to the English measure of length, and adapted to Fahrenheit's thermometer, and other scales of heat, and reduced to a more convenient expression. By the Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society January 13, 1774.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Ephemera
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New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, no.23, New Bond Street : this young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales, with the exception of the face, soles of the feet, and palms of the hand, which are like those of any other man.
Date: [1817]- Books
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The sector and plain scale, compared. Containing I. The description of all the lines upon the sector and plain scales. II. The true use of the sector made plain and easie in several geometrical problems, and in all the cases of right lin'd trigonometry. III. All the proceeding geometrical problems, and cases of right lin'd trigonometry compared by the plain scale, and proved by Mr. Gunter's scale. IV. All the proceeding cases of right lin'd trigonometry, performed arithmetically, without the help of any sort of tables. Unto which is annexed, so much of decimal arithmetick, and the extraction of the square root, as is necessary for the working of arithmetical trigonometry. The second edition. By Roger Rea. N.P. Phi.
Rea, Roger.Date: 1727- Pictures
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Books
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Physiognomy; being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan: wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered. Hear you! whose graver heads in equal scales I weigh, to see whose heaviness prevails; Attend the trial I propose to make. Dunciad. By the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 1703-1773.Date: [1763]- Books
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Harmonic architecture. Exemplified in a plan, elevations and sections, &c. of a building, with four different fronts, upon an harmonic form or cube, now made octangular; being designed for a museum, in a retired situation of a park or garden: to which is added, a table of parts with two scales, one of Parts and the other of Feet and Inches, for measuring and proportioning the Members to the aforesaid Building. By J. Shortess,
Shortess, J.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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Thermometrum magnum: or, grand standard thermometer. Expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which Mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid Metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all Degrees of Temperature in the Air, or any other Bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772- Books
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Zelotes and Honestus reconciled: or, an equal check to Pharisaism & Antinomianism continued: being the first part of the scripture-scales to weigh the gold of gospel-truth -To balance a multitude of opposite Scriptures-To prove the Gospel-Marriage of Free-Grace and Free-Will, and restore primitive Harmony to the Gospel of the day. With a preface, containing some strictures upon the Three letters of Richard Hill, Esq; which have been lately published. By a lover of the whole truth as it is in Jesus.
Fletcher, John, 1729-1785.Date: 1775- Archives and manuscripts
FPA Pay Scales
Date: 1983-1994Reference: SA/FPA/C/C/11/5Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Handbook for ward sisters / by Margaret Scales.
Scales, Margaret.Date: 1952- Pictures
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Francis Shillington-Scales. Photograph.
Reference: 13536i- Books
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The Psalm-singer's delightful pocket companion. Containing, a plain and easy introduction to Psalmody; and an introduction explaining, more at large, the grounds of music in general, illustrated with great variety of tables, scales, and initial lessons: and between three and fourscore of the best Psalm-tunes in nine different meters; with variety of curious hymns and canons, in two, three, and four parts; all neatly engrav'd on plates, and printed on a superfine writing paper. To which is added, a collection of hymns, suited to all the different meters of the tunes. The whole render'd plain and easy to the meanest capacity. By Thomas Moore, author of the Psalm-singer's compleat tutor and divine companion in two volumes: Psalmody made easy: and the vocal concert. Published according to Act of Parliament.
Moore, Thomas, -1792.Date: [1762]- Books
A true and exact history of the island of Barbados. Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processes of sugar-making / By Richard Ligon.
Ligon, Richard.Date: 1657- Archives and manuscripts
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Essay "Time-Scales"
Date: Mid 20th CenturyReference: HALDANE/2/1/3/21Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Thermometrum magnum, or, Grand standard thermometer : expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all degrees of temperature in the air, or any other bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate / by Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772