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The law of periodicity for menstruation
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How to cure the eco-anxious
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Spheres of medicine to be delivered in capsule form
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Spheres of medicine to be delivered in capsule form
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A woman representing Necessity, seated on a throne supported by the Fates, is flanked by the planets and by Sirens; representing the Harmony of Spheres. Etching by Agostino Carracci after A. Boscoli after B. Buontalenti.
Buontalenti, Bernardo, 1536-1608.Date: [between 1589 and 1595]Reference: 38968i- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and Explaining the use, of New Celestial and Terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, The Phoenomena of the Earth and Heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, the phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]