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A new and complete illustration of the occult sciences: or, the art of foretelling future events and Contingencies, by the Aspects, Positions, and Influences, of the heavenly bodies. Founded on Natural Philosophy, Scripture, Reason, and the Mathematics. In four parts. Part I. An Enquiry into, and Defence of, Astrology; with an interesting Discourse on Natural and Occult Philosophy-in which the Wisdom and Omnipotence of God; the intellectual Faculties of Angels, Spirits, and Men; the Order, Harmony, Sympathy, and wonderful Properties, of the Celestial and Terrestrial Worlds; the Signs, Influences, and Effects, of the Heavenly Bodies upon all animal, vegetable, and mineral, Substances; the Number of the Spheres; the Method of erecting the Horoscope to cast Nativities; and the Doctrine of Horary Questions; are clearly exemplified and explained. Part II. Examples for acquiring a Practical Knowledge of Astrology, with Rules for calculating, rectifying, and judging, Nativities; by which the Reader is enabled to discover, with Precision and Accuracy, every material Incident of his future Life and Fortune. Illustrated by a Variety of new, entertaining, and curious, Questions, lately resolved, upon every material Occurrence in public and private Life. With a Collection of the most remarkable Nativities that have been cast for Kings, Princes, and other eminent Men, by the most celebrated Professors of this Science, in all Ages of the World; with astonishing Instances of their exact Completion. Part III. Meteorological Astrology defined and explained: Wherein certain Rules are laid down for prejudging the Revolutions, Vicissitudes, and Misfortunes, with which every Part of the habitable World may be occasionally threatened. General Effects produced by great Conjunctions, Eclipses, Transits, Comets, Blazing Stars, and other extraordinary Phaenomena; with the Art of calculating Eclipses, Tides, and Weather, for any Number of Years to come. To-Which is added, A Collection of improved Tables, contrived to answer all the Purposes of Astronomical Calculations. Part IV. The Distinction between Astrology and the Diabolical Practice of Exorcism; in which the Methods used for raising up and consulting Spirits are laid open, with various instances of their Compacts with wicked Men. Account of Apparitions and Spirits; including a general Display of the Mysteries of Witchcraft, Divination, Charms, and Necromancy. Compiled from a Series of intense Study and Application, and founded on real Examples and Experience. By Ebenezer Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris. Embellished with curious copper-plates.
Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.Date: MDCCXC. [1790] [1792?]- Books
Genetics and the law II / edited by Aubrey Milunsky and George J. Annas.
National Symposium on Genetics and the Law 1979 : Boston, Mass.)Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Archives and manuscripts
Darwin, Sir Francis to Francis Galton
Date: Dec 1896-Jan 1897Reference: GALTON/2/5/4/2/6Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.Date: 1745-1748Reference: MSS.1302, 2391-2392 & 5403- Books
Chasing ghosts : a memoir of a father, gone to war / Louise DeSalvo.
DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-2018Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2007-2010Reference: GC/253/A/37/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
Against empathy : the case for rational compassion / Paul Bloom.
Bloom, Paul, 1963-Date: [2016]- Books
Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history / Simon Werrett.
Werrett, Simon.Date: 2010- Archives and manuscripts
Offprints and Journals
Date: 1947-1997Reference: PSY/KEN/9/6Part of: Kenna, John Corbett- Books
A troublesome inheritance : genes, race and human history / Nicholas Wade.
Wade, NicholasDate: 2014- Books
Go your Crohn way : a gutsy guide to living with Crohn's disease / Kathleen Nicholls.
Nicholls, KathleenDate: 2016- Pictures
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Patient suffering under conventional medicine compared with health via Morisonian alternative medicine; represented by trees, one bloated and dying under the varied administration of conventional doctors and the other drained of impurities and healthy. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10766i- Books
The larder : food studies methods from the American South / edited by John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby.
Date: [2013]- Books
Mental health and human rights : vision, praxis, and courage / edited by Michael Dudley, Derrick Silove and Fran Gale.
Date: 2012- Books
Borrowed time : the science of how and why we age / Sue Armstrong.
Armstrong, Sue (Writer on science)Date: 2019- Books
Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.
Date: [2014]- Videos
Science Britannica. Part 2 Methods and madness.
Date: 2013- Books
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Energy Medicine East and West.
Mayor, David FDate: 2011- Books
Homestead of dilution / Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy.
Mangano, Domenico, 1976-Date: [2017]- Books
Beyond trans : does gender matter? / Heath Fogg Davis.
Davis, Heath FoggDate: [2017]- Archives and manuscripts
Cuthbert, Charles Firmin (1858-1939), surgeon
Cuthbert, Charles Firmin, 1858-1939.Date: 1885-1926Reference: MSS.1982-1997- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
Disability visibility : first-person stories from the twenty-first century / edited by Alice Wong.
Date: [2020]- Books
Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake / Leo Damrosch.
Damrosch, LeopoldDate: [2015]