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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: 1713- Books
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late Remarkable ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Pictures
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The British Museum: drinking fountains under the portico, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 38470i- Pictures
Engineering: hydrostatics, fountains, and an ornamental canal. Engraving.
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The fountains at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.Reference: 38890i- Pictures
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Ancient bath near the fountains of the Palici. Coloured aquatint, 1809.
Date: 1809Reference: 36154i- Pictures
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International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929: fountains in the exhibition, figures in the foreground. Colour lithograph, 1929.
Date: 1929Reference: 575615i- Pictures
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The courtyard of fountains at Fontainebleau. Etching by Perelle.
Perelle, Adam, 1638-1695.Reference: 38870i- Pictures
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The fountains and castle at St. Cloud. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 37415i- Books
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A treatise of the motion of water, and other fluids: with the origin of fountains or springs, and the cause of winds. In which Treatise, the Manner of Levelling or Conducting Rivers, in Order to make them Navigable; the making of Aqueducts for the Supply of Gentlemens Seats; the whole Art of contriving and making Jetts of Water for Fountains; and the Manner how to proportion the Strength of Pipes for conveying Water from any Height, are plainly demonstrated from the Laws of Hydrostaticks, by above a Hundred Curious Experiments. Written originally in French, by the learned M. Marriotte, Member of the Royal Academy at Paris. And translated into English, with several Annotations for Explaining the doubtful Places, by J. T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. Chaplain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Caernarvon.
Mariotte, Edmé, approximately 1620-1684.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Pictures
One of the fountains at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.Reference: 38907i- Pictures
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The field with the fountains at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.Reference: 38906i- Pictures
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Inventions: various items including fountains, a Greek-key fret, and a fourchee. Engraving by T. Jeffrys.
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The seventeen fountains in the gardens at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.Reference: 38905i- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Pictures
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Spa, Belgium: monks and visitors at the fountains of Sauveniere and Groisbeeck. Engraving by M.B. Wachsmuth after A. Le Loup, 1762.
Le Loup, Antoine, 1730-1802.Date: 1763Reference: 22817i- Pictures
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Pumping engines for supplying water to the fountains at Trafalgar Square and government offices. Wood engraving, 1845.
Date: 1845Reference: 37479i- Pictures
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Shalimar, Kashmir: small fountains at the top of a weir. Photograph by Samuel Bourne.
Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 528610iPart of: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912.- Pictures
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The part of the gardens at Liancourt with the seventeen fountains. Etching by I. Silvestre.
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691.Reference: 38904i- Books
Taking the waters in Texas : springs, spas, and fountains of youth / Janet Mace Valenza.
Valenza, Janet, 1947-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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The curiosities of Paris, in nine letters. Containing The Manner of Travelling from Calais to Paris, and the Description of the Towns. &c. on the Road. Description of Paris, Course of the Seine, Bridges, Fountains, &c. Palaces, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Cabinets of Curiosities, and an Execution on the Wheel. Hospitals, Churches, Relics, and Processions. Squares, Statues, and Inscriptions. Different Orders of the Religious, Orders of Knighthood, Equipages, and Theatres. Amphitheatres, public Libraries, Colleges, Nunneries, &c. and the Ceremony of taking the Veil. Description of St. Cloud, the Royal Mausoleum of St. Dennis, and Regalia of the Crown. Description and Curiosities at Versailles, Trianon, Marli, Waterworks, and Machine, Gardens, Statues, Procession of the Knights of the St. Esprit, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful Observations, and particularly adapted for the Perusal of Chirurgical Students and the Traveller. By A. R.
A. R.Date: [1760?]- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: birds by the Serpentine, water fountains and animals and Seagulls at Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park (January 1994).
Date: 24/01/1994Reference: PP/AMI/B/513Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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The gardens of a European palace with many fountains and with people wearing eighteenth-century costumes. Gouache painting.
Reference: 580708iPart of: Chinese costumes and designs and views of Western towns, buildings and ports- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]