Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.

An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches. Engraving with etching, 1685.

A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.

Ancient anatomists in discussion around a cadaver. Engraving by G. Appelmans, 1674.

Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.

Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.

The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.

The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.

A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.

An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.

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Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments made and sold by Heath and Wing, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, London.

The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the Sector, the Gunter, and the Proportional Compasses, with a practical application, Exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures. By Benjamin Martin.

Directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, with remarks on the construction of that instrument. With considerable corrections and additions. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

The description and use of a pocket-case of mathematical or drawing instruments: Containing, Particularly, A familiar Explanation of the Use of the Protractor, Plain Scale, Sector, Gunter's Scales, Marquoi's Parallel Scales, and the Proportional Compasses; with several Examples in Trigonometry, Arithmetic, &c. Together with plain Instructions for making several Kinds of Sun-Dials. Illustrated by copper-plates.

The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple Optics, or Direct Vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or Reflected Vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or Refracted Vision. Book IV. The Construction of Optical Instruments.

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Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments made and sold by Heath and Wing, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, London.

Directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, with remarks on the construction of that instrument. With considerable corrections and additions. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple Optics, or Direct Vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or Reflected Vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or Refracted Vision. Book IV. The Construction of Optical Instruments.

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Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments made and sold by Heath and Wing, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, London.

Directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, with remarks on the construction of that instrument. With considerable corrections and additions. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple Optics, or Direct Vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or Reflected Vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or Refracted Vision. Book IV. The Construction of Optical Instruments.