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Illicium anisatum L. Illiciaceae Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. This was also called Illicium religiosum and the fruits are toxic. Effects of taking Illicium anisatum tea include epilepsy, vomiting, shakiness and rapid eye movements (US Food and Drug Administration report, 2003). Lindley (1838) and Bentley (1861) thought that I. anisatum was used in cooking, but they were describing the uses of I. verum which is used as a spice in Asia. Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum is 'used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples and was called Skimi by Kaempfer. This derives from the Japanese word 'shi-kimi'. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Jacobi Petiveri opera, Historiam naturalem spectantia: containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fish, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants, on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names. N.B. Above one hundred of these plates were never published before. To which are now added seventeen curious tracts, most of them so scarce as not to be purchased, which completes all he ever wrote upon natural history; viz, Gazophylacium naturæ et artis. Musei rariora naturæ, &c. 238 land and water beetles. 26 Humble-bees. 19 British fresh-water fishes. 42 [British] land and water shells. 100 [British] sea-shells, eggs, stars, &c. 26 Kentish 25 Sheppey 59 Gloucestershire fossils. 112 Merian's Surinam insects. On snails and worms being Hermaphrodites. Ray's Method of plants illustrated. Herbs of the same class have similar virtues. Virginian cicada, wasps, bees, &c. The two volumes containing above ten thousand articles, engraved in the most accurate manner, from originals, the gifts of the most eminent persons in all nations. The additions corrected by the late Mr. James Empson, of the British Museum, &c.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: 1767- Books
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Every young man's companion: containing directions for spelling, reading, and writing English. Instructions in the Art of Penmanship. Epistolary Writing, containing Letters of Compliment and Business. Forms of Address to Persons of all Ranks. Arithmetic, Vulgar, Fractional, Decimal, Logarithmetical, and Algebraical. Practical Geometry. Astronomy, or an Account of the Globe, fixed Stars, Planets and Comets. Geography, or a general Account of the World, and a particular Description of Great-Britain and Ireland, Plain Trigonometry. The Resolution of Astronomical Questions. The making and fixing all Kinds of Dials. The measuring Superficies, Solids, Timber, Carpenters, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glasiers, and Joiners Work, &c. Surveying of Land. Gauging of Casks, with a Description of Everard's Gauging-Rule. The Gardener's Calendar, shewing what Work is to be done every Month in the Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit Garden. Farriery, or the Art of knowing and curing the Diseases of Horses. Useful Receipts of various Kinds. The Art of making Rockets, and artificial Fireworks. The Method of Painting [Dials], Rooms, Timber Work, and Mezzotinto Prints on Glass, and of the making and mixing Colours. The Art of colouring Maps, Plots, and Prints. Together with a great variety of cuts and tables, Accurately drawn and made for the more ready Performance of the different Operations taught in this Treatise. By W. Gordon, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Gordon, W.Date: 1755- Books
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Every young man's companion: Containing directions for spelling, reading, and writing English. Instructions in the art of penmanship. Epistolary writing, containing letters of compliment and business. Forms of address to persons of all ranks. Arithmetic, vulgar, fractional, decimal, logarithmetical, and algebraical. Practical geometry. Astronomy, or an account of the globe, fixed stars, planets and comets. Geography, or a general account of the world, and a particular description of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plain trigonometry. The resolution of astronomical questions. The making and fixing all kinds of dials. The measuring superficies, solids, timber, carpenters, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, glasiers, and joiners work, &c. Surveying of land. Gauging of casks, with a description of everard's gauging-rule. The gardener's calendar, shewing what work is to be done every month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit garden. Farriery, or the art of knowing and curing the diseases of horses. Useful receipts of various kinds. The art of making rockets, and artificial fireworks. The method of painting dials, rooms, timber work, and mezzotinto prints on glass, and of the making and mixing colours. The art of colouring maps, plots, and prints. Forms for business in the mercantile way. Forms in law of general use. Together with a great variety of cuts and tables, accurately drawn and made for the more ready performance of the different operations taught in this treatise. By W. Gordon, teacher of the mathematics.
Gordon, W.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The young man's companion: or, the several branches of useful learning made perfectly easy. Containing Plain Directions for a Young Man's attaining to Read and Write true English; the best and easiest Instructions for Writing Variety of Hands, with Copies both in Prose and Verse. How to write Letters of Compliment, Friendship, or Business. Forms of Notes, Receipts, Bills, Bonds, Indentures, Leases, and Releases, Letters of Attorney, Wills, &c. A short and easy Method of Shop and Book-Keeping, Merchants Accompts, &c. An Explanation of the Gregorian Kalendar, or New Style, Shewing the Method of finding the Golden Number, Epact, Dominical Letter, the Age of the Moon, Easter Day, &c. with an Account of the several Aeras, or Epochas, used by Historians. The art of Mensuration, Applied to the Measuring of Boards and Timber, Carpenters, Joyners, Sawyers, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Plummers, Masons, Glaziers, and Painters Work. How to compute the Charge of Building an House, or any Part thereof. Gauging, Surveying, Plotting of Land by Gunter's Chain, and taking Heights and Distances by the Quadrant, &c. Astronomy, or an Account of the Motions, Distances, Periods, &c. of the Planets and Fixed Stars. A Description of the Earth, and also of the Counties, Parishes, &c. in England and Wales. Monthly Observations in Gardening, Planting, Grafting, and Inoculating Fruit-Trees, and the best Time to prune them. To which is added, The Family Companion for Marking on Linen, Pickling, Preserving, Making Wine of Fruit; with many approved and experienced Medicines for the Poor. And Exact lists of all the Fairs in England and Wales, both Fixed and Moveable; wherein Market-Towns are likewise distinguished by the Days of the Week on which their Markets are held. Together with a compendium of interest, Shewing the Method of finding the Interest due at any Time for any Sum of Money, at 2, 21/2, 3, 31/2, 4, 41/2, 5 and 6 per Cent. per Annum Written by W. Mather, in a plain and easy Style, that a Young Man may both readily and easily improve and qualify himself for Business, without the Help of a Master. The Twenty-First Edition, with large Additions and Improvements, By J. Barrow.
Mather, W. (William), active 1695.Date: 1761- Books
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The art of heraldry. Containing I. The original and universality of arms and ensigns, with their Use and Necessity; their Blazon, Distribution, Abatements, and Rewards of Honour. II. Of diverse Kinds of Escotcheons, and of the Bearing or Using the Ordinaries in Coat Armour. III. Of Coat Armour form'd of Artificial Things, whether Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military or Marine, such as are made by Man, or for his Use. IV. Of Charges in Coat Armour form'd of Coelestials, as, the Sun, Moon, Stars, Angels, &c. Of Vegetables, as Trees, Flowers, Plants, Fruits, &c. Of the Parts of Man's Body, as the Hands, Legs, Arms, Heart, &c. Of Animals, as Lyons, Tygers, Horses, Stags, &c. in Whole and in Parts. V. Of Charges from Fowls and Birds of all Sorts, in Whole and in Parts. VI. Of Charges from Fishes of all Kinds, in Whole and in Parts. Vii. Of Charges from Monstrous Animals, in Whole and in Parts. Embellish'd with forty copper plates, containing above 900 Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, curiously engraven, with their particular Descriptions, and by whom borne. Interspers'd with the Natural History of the several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Vegetables, &c. comprehended therein. Together with Occasional Explications of all the Terms used in the Science of Heraldry, and peculiar thereto. To which is prefix'd, An Alphabetical list of the Names of the Families whose Coats are delineated in the Book, with References to the Pages where they are to be found.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Pictures
The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.
Reference: 47267i- Pictures
The Lord's prayer in English, represented in typefaces and vignettes. Lithograph by J.C. Napper.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 3150009i- Books
Inheritance : how our genes change our lives, and our lives change our genes / Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, with Matthew D. LaPlante.
Moalem, SharonDate: 2014- Videos
Public information film compilation.
Date: 1948-2003