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Health & beauty at little cost : Savage health motor : exerciser & reducer / Savage Arms Corporation.
Savage Arms Corporation (Utica, N.Y.)Date: [1930?]- Digital Images
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Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish entertainer, at a prosthesis stand at a Daily Mail exhibition, Olympia, 1921: one man with an arm prosthesis lights his pipe, a second demonstrates the equipment. Photograph, 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 578082i- Books
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Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration; calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans, and set to view in four parts. Containing, I. Preliminaries or the foundations of the several arts above-mentioned. II. The various orders of architecture, laid down and improved from the best masters; with the ways of making draughts of buildings, gardens, groves, fountains, &c. the laying down of maps, cities, lordships, farms, &c. III. The doctrine and rules of mensuration of all kinds, illustrated by select examples in building, gardening, timber, &c. IV. Exact tables of mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid contents of all kinds of bodies, without the fatigue of arithmetical computation: to which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. The whole exemplisy'd with a large number of folio copper plates, curiously engraven by the best hands. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1729- Books
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An introduction to natural philosophy: Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To which are added, the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion. By John Keill M.D. savilian professor of Astronomy. F.R.S. Translated from the last edition of the Latin.
Keill, John, 1671-1721.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]- Books
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Tunbridge Wells: or, a directory for the drinking of those waters. Shewing, I. Their Nature and Virtues. II. The Diseases in which they are most Beneficial. III. The Time, Manner, and Order of Drinking them. IV. The Preparation of the Body required. V. The Diet proper to be used by all Mineral-Water-Drinkers. By Lewis Rouse, M.D. To which are Annexed, two tracts, viz. I. Mr. Boyle's observations upon Tunbridge and other Mineral-Waters. II. A physico-mechanical dissertation upon water, in General, proving it to be the best Specifick for the Cure of all Diseases. With a particular Account of the Virtues of the German Waters. Made English from the Latin original.
Rowzee, Lodwick, 1586-Date: [1725]- Books
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From the surgical to the mechanical art / J. & E. Ferris.
J. & E. Ferris.Date: 1891- Pictures
Clocks: various types of clock mechanism. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1809.
Date: 1809Reference: 40895i- Books
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On the mechanical appliances necessary for the treatment of deformities. Part II. The spine and upper extremities / by Henry Heather Bigg.
Bigg, Henry Robert Heather.Date: 1862- Books
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A mechanical account of fevers. By Laurentius Bellini, M. D. And Professor of Physick in the University of Pisa. Done into English: with a large explanatory introduction; helping the better to understand some other writings also of the same author.
Bellini, Lorenzo, 1634-1704.Date: 1720- Books
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Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks. In five volumes. ... Contains a short Treatise of Algebra, and the Elements of Euclid. ... Arithmetic and Trigonometry, with correct Tables of Logarithms, Sines and Tangents. ... Geometry and Fortification. ... Mechanics, and Perspective. ... Geography and Dialling. The whole illustrated with near 200 copper plates. Written in French by Monsieur Ozanam, Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris. Now done into English, with additions and corrections by several hands.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Pictures
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Organs of the human body illustrating the function of the "Clérambourg" laxative. Colour lithograph by Jakil, ca. 1930.
Jakil (Designer), active approximately 1930.Date: [1930?]Reference: 46905i- Books
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The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch. In three parts. I. The Old Galenic Art of Feeling the Pulse is describ'd, and many of its Errors corrected: The true Use of the Pulses, and their Causes, Differences and Prognostications by them, are fully explain'd, and Directions given for Feeling the Pulse by the Pulse-Watch, or Minute-Glass. II. A New Mechanical Method is propos'd for preserving Health, and prolonging Life, and for curing Diseases by the help of the Pulse-Watch, which shews the Pulses when they exceed or are deficient from the natural. III. The Chinese Art of Feeling the Pulse is describ'd; and the Imitation of their Practice of Physick, which is grounded on the Observation of the Pulse, is recommended. To which is added, An Extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese Art of Feeling the Pulse. By Sir John Floyer, Knight.
Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.Date: 1707- Books
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Lexicon physico-medicum; or, A new physical dictionary; Explaining the difficult terms used in the several branches of the profession, and in such parts of philosophy as are introductory thereunto. To which is added, some account of the things signified by such terms: collected from the most eminent authors; and particularly those who have wrote upon mechanical principles. By John Quincy, M.D.
Quincy, John, -1722.Date: 1722- Pictures
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A sixteenth-century iron arm: two figures, including a cross-section. Line engraving by J. Skelton after S.R. Meyrick.
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783-1848.Date: [1830]Reference: 568187i- Books
Fatigue in cancer / edited by Jo Armes, Meinir Krishnasamy, and Irene J. Higginson.
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A compleat body of arithmetick, in four books, Viz: Book I. Part 1. Integers. 2. Fractions. Book II. 1. Geodaeticals. 2. Figurals. Book III. 1. Decimals. 2. Astronomicals. Part 3. Logarithmes. 4. Cossicks. 5. Surds. 6. Algebra. Book IV. 1. Ratio's. 2. Proportions disjunct. 3. Proportions continued. 4. Aequations, &c. Wherein the Whole Nature of Numbers, with their Simple and Comparative Elements in all the Parts of Arithmetick, are plainly Declared, and fully Handled. Every Part Explain'd by Necessary Rules, Cases, Theorems, Questions, Observations, and Variety of Operations: Illustrated by sundry Tables, Diagrams, and very many Examples. Together with divers Etymologies, Symboles, Characters, and Abreviations for Artificial Terms, Words, Names, and Denominations: The Whole digested into a succinct, and orderly Method; and delivered in a familiar Style. To every Part is added, Excellent Rules of Practice; which makes it very Useful to Merchants, and all that would understand Accounts, or the Mathematical and Mechanical Arts and Sciences. With Many Large and Exact Tables of all Sorts of Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Ancient and Modern, in most Countries, reduced to our own: The Best that has yet been extant. By Samuel Jeake, merchant.
Jeake, Samuel, 1623-1690.Date: MDCCI. [1701]- Books
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Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, a general English dictionary, comprehending a brief, but emphatical and clear explication of all sorts of difficult words, that derive their Original from other Ancient and Modern Languages; as also, of all Terms relating to Arts and Sciences, both Liberal and Mechanical, viz. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Physick, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, Pharmacy, Botanicks, Mathematicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, Logick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Traffick, Husbandry, Gardening, Handicrafts, Confectionery, Cookery, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, &c. To which is Added, A Large Collection of Words and Phrases, as well Latin as English, made use of in our Ancient Statutes; Old Records, Charters, Writs, and Processes at Law, never before publish'd in so Small a Volume: Besides an Interpretation of the proper Names of Men and Women, and several other Remarkable Particulars mentioned in the Preface. The Whole Work Compil'd, and Methodically Digested, for the Benefit of Young Students, Tradesmen, Artificers, Foreigners, and others, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By John Kersey, Philobibl.
Kersey, John, active 1720.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins, late Lord Bishop of Chester. Containing, I. The discovery of a new world: or, a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a discourse of the possibility of a passage thither. II. That 'tis probable our earth is one of the planets. III. Mercury: or, the secret and swift messenger. Shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. IV. Mathematical magick: or the wonders that may be perform'd by mechanical geometry. V. An abstract of his essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language. To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.Date: MDCCVIII. [1708] [1707-08]- Books
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Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, a general English dictionary, comprehending a brief, but emphatical and clear explication of all sorts of difficult words, that derive their Original from other Ancient and Modern Languages; as also, of all Terms relating to Arts and Sciences, both Liberal and Mechanical, viz. Divinity, Law, Philosophy, Physick, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, Pharmacy, Botanicks, Mathematicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, Logick, Musick, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Traffick, Husbandry, Gardening, Handicrafts, Confectionery, Cookery, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, &c. To which is Added, A Large Collection of Word's and Phrases, as well Latin as English, made use of in our Ancient Statutes, Old Records, Charters, Writs, and Processes at Law, never before publish'd in so Small a Volume: Besides an Interpretation of the proper Names of Men and Women, and several other Remarkable Particulars mentioned in the Preface. The Whole Work Compil'd, and Methodically Digested, for the Benefit of Young Students, Tradesmen, Artificers, Foreigners, and others, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write. By John Kersey, Philobibl.
Kersey, John, active 1720.Date: 1715