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A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service, for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks / collected by J.W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1668- Books
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A rich cabinet with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious sirpits [sic] at their vacant hours : Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, air, and vvater. And fire works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1658- 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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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits : Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. / By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1689- Books
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits : Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1689- Books
Proposal for Atlas for Animate Bodies : moving drawing installations and artist books
Pummell, SimonDate: [2013?]- Books
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1677- Books
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The traytors pilgrimage from the Tower to Tyeburn : being a true relation of the drawing of William Lord Munson, Sir Henry Mildmay, and Esquire Wallop, upon three several sledges on Munday last the 27th of this instant January, being the day that our late Gracious Soveraign King Charles received that horrid and most unjust sentence to lose his dear and precious life before the gates of his own royal palace. With manner of the proceedings at Tyburn, in order to the degrading and devesting them of their former titles of honour; and their declaratory speeches to both the right worshipful sheriffs of London and Middlesex.
Date: 1662- Books
Epidemic encounters, communities, and practices in the colonial world / edited by Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen.
Date: [2023]- Books
Objectivity / Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison.
Daston, Lorraine, 1951-Date: 2007- Books
A handful of quiet : happiness in four pebbles / Thich Nhat Hanh.
Nhất Hạnh, ThíchDate: 2012- Books
Stethoscope : the making of a medical icon / Anna Harris and Tom Rice.
Harris, Anna (Medical anthropologist)Date: 2022- Books
Reversing diabetes : food plan + 70 delicious recipes / Dr Alan Barclay ; [forewords by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller and Professor Peter Colman].
Barclay, Alan W.Date: 2016- Books
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A sexennial diary, or an almanack for six years : containing certain astrological judgments for the said years, with several new and useful problems, very satisfactorily resolved in a manner more easie, and far different from any extant in any other almanack; particularly for finding the golden number, the epact, the moons age, her coming to south, the time of high water at any port, the cycle of the sun, dominical letter; roman indiction, what day of the week the first day of any moneth happens for ever, how long the moon shines when she riseth and setteth, with all her quarters. All of them by sure and short rules for ever. To which are added 9 large tables for all vertical declining dyals speedy drawing, with directions at large for the use of them. Price 6d. By Samuel Gilbert, Philomath.
Gilbert, Samuel, philomathDate: 1683- Books
Outrageous reason : madness and race in Britain and empire, 1780-2020 / Peter Barham.
Barham, PeterDate: 2023- Books
The other side of happiness : embracing a more fearless approach to living / Brock Bastian.
Bastian, BrockDate: 2019- Books
The refusal of work : the theory and practice of resistance to work / David Frayne.
Frayne, DavidDate: [2015]- Books
The village effect : why face-to-face contact matters / Susan Pinker.
Pinker, Susan, 1957-Date: 2015- Books
The believing brain : from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths / Michael Shermer.
Shermer, Michael.Date: 2011- Books
Breastfeeding older children / Ann Sinnott.
Sinnott, Ann (Health writer)Date: 2010- Books
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The three distinct knocks, or the door of the most antient free-masonary, opening to all men, neither naked nor cloath'd, Bare-Foot nor Shod, &c. being an universal description of all its branches, from Its first Rise to this present Time, As it is delivered in all Lodges: Giving an exact Account of all their Proceedings in making a Brother, with the Three Obligations or Oaths belonging to the First Second, and Third Degrees of Masonry, viz. The Enter'd Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master-Mason; with the Obligation belonging to the Chair, and the Gripe and Word. Also, Full Descriptions of the Drawing upon the Floor of the Lodge, with the Three Steps, and a Prayer used at the making of a Brother; with Songs to be sung after grave Business is done, and the Examination of a Brother, whereby he may get Admittance into a Lodge, without going through the Obligations. With, The Author's Reasons for opening the Door of Masonry to all the World: Also the Character of some Masters of Lodges at this Time. By W- O- V-n. Member of a Lodge in England at this Time.
V-n, W- O-.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie : Containing 1. The curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies; gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding the length and circumference answering any arch, in degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The like never before made publick; illustrated with 14 copper-plates. / By Dr. Colton.
Colton, H., Dr.Date: 1698- Pictures
Vishnu in his incarnation as a fish, Matsya, dives into the water to save the Vedas (holy books) from the demon. Drawing by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576975i- Books
The depths : the evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic / Jonathan Rottenberg.
Rottenberg, JonathanDate: [2014]- Books
Neanderthal man : in search of lost genomes / Svante Pääbo.
Pääbo, SvanteDate: [2014]