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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
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'Mortars'
Date: 1910-1914Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Ear/636Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case. Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, Architecture, Surveying, Geography, Perspective, &c. with an Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers. And The Description of, and Precepts for the Delineation of, Ship-Guns and Sea Mortars. To this Treatise, is prefixed A Brief Account of Authors, who have wrote on the Proportional Compasses and Sector. The third edition, with many additions. By John Robertson, Librarian to the Royal Society.
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
Bell-metal mortars / [D. Davison].
Davison, Daniel.Date: [1930?]- Archives and manuscripts
M0007519: Three stone mortars
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/67Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0007511: Two decorated mortars
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/59Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive