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Clocks: a barometer face (below), and mechanism (top). Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40738i- Ephemera
John Marshall, maker of optic glasses to his Majesty at the Archimedes & two golden spectacles in Ludgate Street sells all sorts of double & single telescopes, microscopes, prospective & weather glasses.
Marshall, John.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]- Pictures
Clocks: a marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40838i- Pictures
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A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
King, Gunning.Date: 1911Reference: 15380i- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass, wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, the causes of its different gravitation are assigned and explained. And a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgment of the weather / By Edward Saul, A.M.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: 1766- Books
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A new improvement of the quicksilver barometer, made by John Patrick, in Ship-Court in the Old-Baily, London.
Patrick, John (Mathematical instrument maker)Date: [1710?]- Books
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Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer: with the description of an electrometer of a new construction: Illustrated with Copper-Plates and Notes. By A. Brook.
Brook, Abraham.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Pictures
Clocks: a [combined?] marine chronometer, barometer, and thermometer. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40737i- Pictures
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A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17083i- 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]- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass. Wherein The Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, and the Causes of its different Gravitation, are Assigned and Explained. And A Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edward Saul, A. M. Late Fellow of Magdalen-College, Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: [1766]- Books
The anemometer, the barometer, the rain gauge and the thermometer as portrayed by Charles Tomlinson / by Vernon Radcliffe.
Radcliffe, Vernon.Date: 2002- Books
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Barometrical observations on the depth of the mines in the Hartz. By John Andrew de Luc, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, March 20, 1777.
Luc, J. A. de (Jean André), 1727-1817.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
Clocks: a pocket watch mechanism (top), and details (below). Engraving [by Defehrt?] after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40779i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005411: Diorama showing Evangelista Torricelli inventing the barometer
Date: January 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/44/39Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich.
Brook, Abraham.Date: 1797- Books
A few remarks upon the construction and principles of action of the aneroid barometer : with observations on the mercurial barometer / [Charles Frodsham].
Frodsham, Charles, 1810-1871.Date: [1849]- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or weather-glass. Wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, and the causes of its different gravitation, are assign'd and explain'd. And A Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edward Saul, A.M. Late Fellow of Magdalen-College, Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
Finnish science barometer 2001 / Finnish Society for Scientific Information.
Date: 2001- Books
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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer. With a Scale of Rectification For estimating the True Altitude of the Column of Mercury (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also the theory and construction of the compound barometer ; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an Appendix, Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Pictures
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Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.
Date: 1774Reference: 40950i- Pictures
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A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Reference: 47021i- Books
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The human barometer: or, Living Weather-Glass. A Philosophick Poem. By Mr. Phelps.
Phelps, J.Date: 1743- Books
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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-engines; 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 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. Desaguliers.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick, garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Intersperss'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin, and English; and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening. Together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers proper for gardeners; and of the origin, causes, and nature of metegrs, and the particular influences of air, earth, fire and water upon vegetation, according to the best natural philosphers. Adom'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, gardener to the botanick garden at Chelsea, and F.R.S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]