353 results
- Books
- Online
An easy introduction to fortification and practical gunnery. Containing, I. Decimal Arithmetic, Extraction of Roots. II. The Laws of Motion; of Gravity. Descent of heavy Bodies. Vibration of Pendulums. III. Geometrical Problems, and some of the most useful Theorems in Geometry demonstrated in a very plain and easy Way. IV. The measuring of Superficies. V. The measuring of Solids. Of the Strength of Beams of Timber, with Rules for cutting Scantlings for Buildings, from Mathematical Principles. VI. The Computation of Balls and Shells. Vii. Logarithmical Arithmetic. Viii. Plane Trigonometry, the Proportion of Sines, Co-Fines, Tangents, &c. With many useful Problems for finding Heights and Distances, &c. copiously handled. IX. Fortification, explaining the Terms, with Rules for fortifying any regular Polygon, from the Square to the Decagon, and all the Sines and Angles computed by Trigonometry, with the Operation at large. X. Gunnery, where the Cases are solved by Addition and Subtraction only, with numeral Examples; the Rules in Words at length, whether the Projections be made on horizontal, or on ascending or descending Planes. The Theory of Projectiles. Tables of Experiments of Cannons and Mortars, with some Observations. The Solution of a Problem to find the Velocity of a Bullet shot from any Piece of Ordnance; with the necessary Tables. The second edition, corrected and very much enlarged. By the Rev. F. Holliday, Minister of Bothamsal, and Master of the Free Grammar-School at Haughton Park, Nottinghamshire.
Holliday, Francis, 1717-1787.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Digital Images
- Online
Ancient Egyptian Kohl pot minature pestle and mortar
- Pictures
- Online
An ancient pestle and mortar found in Aix-les-Bains. Photograph.
Reference: 36685i- Pictures
- Online
An apothecary riding a velocipede (bicycle) in the form of a pestle and mortar. Coloured etching, ca. 1819.
Date: 1819Reference: 10953i- Pictures
- Online
An elaborate metal mortar, German, 1545. Etching by W.W. McCarty.
Reference: 16032i- Archives and manuscripts
M0007518: Cup with handles and ring
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/66Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
Reference: 16151i- Pictures
- Online
An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
Reference: 16075i- Pictures
- Online
A man pounding a mixture with a pestle and mortar - an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
Reference: 16213i- Pictures
A mortar and pestle; the American eagle; and the joined flags of the United Kingdom and the United States; advertising Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London. Relief photoengraving on metal.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]Reference: 2897053i- Books
Les mortiers et les porphyres / [Roger Cazala].
Cazala, Roger, Madame.Date: 1953- Books
Les mortiers d'apothicaires / [Roger Cazala].
Cazala, Roger, Madame.Date: 1953- Pictures
- Online
Apothecaries' Hall: an ancient mortar, with details of its decoration. Engraving.
Reference: 23448i- Pictures
- Online
Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
Matthews, active 1861.Date: 1861Reference: 15932i- Pictures
- Online
Death as an apothecary's assistant making up medicines with a mortar and pestle for the apothecary attending a female patient who sits by the fireside. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson or one of his followers.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 20131i- Pictures
- Online
A theatrical figure in a tuxedo supporting a pestle and mortar as a hat and holding a large pill. Watercolour painting.
Chasemore, Archibald, active 1874-1878.Reference: 15700i- Books
Nederlandse vijzels / door D.A. Wittop Koning.
Wittop Koning, D. A. (Dirk Arnold), 1911-2001.Date: 1989- Pictures
- Online
A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
Reference: 16216i- Pictures
- Online
An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.Reference: 15915i- Pictures
- Online
A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.
Reference: 21555i- Pictures
- Online
An apothecary with pharmaceutical equipment seated in an arched window. Etching by B.A. Dunker after G. Metsu.
Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.Reference: 36123i- Books
El morter mossàrab del Castell de la Geltrú (Vilanova i la Geltrú) / Iris Figuerola i Pujol i Xavier Sorní i Esteva.
Figuerola i Pujol, Iris.Date: 1992- Pictures
- Online
A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
Reference: 15899i- Pictures
A pharmacist wearing a white coat and lapel badges of his professional association; representing the expertise of the pharmacist. Colour lithograph, 1935.
Verband Deutscher Drogisten.Date: [1935?]Reference: 583303i- Books
Der Mörser : Geschichte und Erscheinungsbild eines Apothekengerätes Materialen, Formen, Typen / Edmund Launert.
Launert, Edmund.Date: [1990], ©1990