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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
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Mask, ritual and fertility
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Chemical observations and experiments on air and fire. By Charles-William Scheele, Member of the Royal Academy at Stockholm; with a prefatory introduction, by Torbern Bergman; translated from the German by J. R. Forster, L.L.D. F.R.S. and S.A. Member of several Learned Societies and Academies in Europe. To which are added notes, by Richard Kirwan, Esq. F.R.S. with a letter to him from Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A course of anatomico-physiological lectures on the human structure and animal oeconomy; interspersed with various critical notes, extracted from Memoirs, Transactions of Learned Societies, &c. and Pathological Observations deduced from Dissections of morbid Bodies. Including whatever is most valuable in the works of all the eminent professors on these subjects. Particularly Winslow, Haller, Ruysch, Morgagni, Monro, Heister, &c. Illustrated with an historical compendium of the Rise, Progress, and Discoveries, which have been made in the Animal Oeconomy, gradually traced to the present Time. With the art of injecting and making anatomical preparations. ... . The third edition. By Charles Nicholas Jenty, M. D. Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences and Surgery at Paris, Stockholm, Rouen, Dijon, Toulouse, &c.
Jenty, Charles Nicholas.Date: 1765- Books
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The present state of Europe: or, a genealogical and political description of all the kingdoms, states and principalities thereof; the Ministers, Archbishops, Bishops, Civil and Military Great Officers: the various Revolutions of each State; the particular Constitution of their Respective Government, the Extent of their Territories, their Vice-Royalties, Vice-Roys, Dependant Governments and Governours. Also Of The Pedigrees of all the Noble Families in each Country; their Orders of Knighthood, Academies or Learned Societies; with Lists of their Members, and Catalogues of the Ambassadors of all Countries. Published originally in the German Language in 1704. And now rendred into English. To all which is added Guicciardini's account by what means the Popes usurped their temporal power, which is expunged out of all the Editions of that Author in his Original Language, Printed in R. Catholick Countries, except the First. Translated out of Italian.
Date: 1705- Books
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Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779. In four volumes. ... The second edition. By Charles Peter Thunberg, M.D. Knight of the Order of Vasz, Professor of Botany in the University of Upsal, and Member of various academies and learned societies both in Sweden and other countries.
Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828.Date: 1795- Books
A survey of learned societies / Joint Committee on Learned Societies [of] the Royal Society and the British Academy.
Joint Committee on Learned Societies (Great Britain)Date: 1976