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Figure surrounded by blue and purple lightning wth red stars
Date: 1980sReference: SA/MAR/296Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Books
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A thousand more notable things: or, modern curiosities. Viz. Divers physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, Planting and Grafting. To prevent diseases in children. Directions for all midwives, Nurses, and Child-Barring Women. Problems of Aristotle. A Book of Knowledge. The Art of Angling. The Art of Japanning. Rules of Health & Long-Life. Rules for Blood-Letting. To make the Face beautiful. Reasons of Thundering and Lightning. How to destroy Vermin. To order Children rightly, and to prevent Diseases incident to them. The Art of Painting in Oyl. Curious Inventions for the Ingenious to improve on. To cure all Diseases in all sorts of Cattel. With divers other Curiosities. By G. Johnson. Part II.
Date: [1706?]- Books
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Proceedings relative to the accident by lightning at Heckingham.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
Mum dreams about a little lightning bug / Judit Franch.
Franch, JuditDate: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
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Black and white abstract face with lightning, stairs, checkerboard and people
Date: 1981Reference: SA/MAR/37Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Ephemera
Veno's lightning cough cure : cures in natures own way.
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Further observations upon lightning; together with some experiments. By Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. &c. Communicated to the Royal Society, and rejected in the committee.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings. / By John Leigh, Jun., Esq.
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: 1835- Books
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Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, later of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, Author of The View of the Earth;-View of the Heavens;-System of Gauging; and Chronologer Perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
Mum and mummy dream about a little lightning bug / Judit Franch.
Franch, JuditDate: 2016- Books
Mum and dad dream about a little lightning bug / Judit Franch.
Franch, JuditDate: 2016- Books
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The extraordinary case of Joseph Lockier : who was struck by lightning, and existed three weeks in a wood near Bath, on water only! / [Joseph Lockier and Thomas Creaser].
Lockier, Joseph.Date: [1806]- Pictures
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Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Engraving.
Reference: 11159i- Books
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Observations upon lightning, and the method of securing buildings from its effects. In a letter to Sir Charles Frederick, &c. &c. &c / by B. Wilson ... and others.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: 1773- Books
Stolen lightning : the social theory of magic / Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe.
O'Keefe, Daniel Lawrence, 1928-Date: 1982- Books
A case of death from lightning at Nairobi / by J.A. Carman.
Carman, John AmbroseDate: 1927- Pictures
Jagged mountains with conifers (?) and fork lightning. Gouache by Francesca, 1974.
Francesca, active approximately 1974.Date: 23.2.74 [23 February 1974]Reference: 2935450iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
The lightning stick : arrows, wounds, and Indian legends / H. Henrietta Stockel.
Stockel, H. Henrietta, 1938-Date: [1995], ©1995- Pictures
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Saint John and Saint Paul as protectors against storm, thunder and lightning. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 11158i- Books
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An essay on the cause of lightning, and the manner by which the thunder-clouds become possessed of their electricity, Deduced From Known Facts And Properties Of That Matter. To which are added, Plain directions for constructing and erecting safe conductors.
Simmons, John, active 1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Pictures
Hero confronting a dragon amid waves and lightning. Colour woodcut by Yoshitsuya, 1843/1846.
Yoshitsuya (Kōko Mankichi), 1822-1866.Date: 1843/1846Reference: 36413i- Books
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The youth's general introduction to Guthrie's geography. Being a complete pocket atlas: containing a description of the several empires, kingdoms, and states, in the world, Their Extent, Bearings, Air, Soil, Produce, Commerce, Strength, Government, Religion, &c. Accompanied with Twenty-Seven Maps on a new Plan, Shewing the Situation of above 3,000 Cities and Towns, the Particulars of which are mentioned in the Work, with their corresponding Ancient and French Names, &c. To which are prefixed, elementary chronology and astronomy: with an Account of Various Phenomena in the Atmosphere, viz. Thunder, Lightning, Hail, Rain, Snow, Wind, &c. The most Useful Geometrical Figures Defined and Constructed: and the Use of the Globes and Maps. Illustrated by a Variety of Examples. The whole Adapted to the Capacity of Youth. By W. Perks, Pimlico.
Perks, William.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Observations upon lightning, and the method of securing buildings from it's effects, in a letter to Sir Charles Frederick, &c.&c.&c. by B. Wilson, F.R.S. and Ac. Reg. Up. Soc. and others.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
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Two deer struck by lightning in the forest. Etching by M. E. Ridinger after J. E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39430i- Pictures
Indra, the god of thunder and lightning, riding on a white elephant. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582094i