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FB Power, Sites - overseas, staff, Wandsworth, Wellcome Building / staff, In Pursuit of Excellence; Founders (Henry Solomon Wellcome); Frederick Belding Power.
Date: c.1900-c.1985Reference: WF/M/I/PR/Z2Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Saint Sebastian. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 2045868iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Three books of occult philosophy or magic / by...Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim...Book one-Natural magic; which includes the early life of Agrippa, his seventy-four chapters on natural magic, new notes, illustrations, index, and other original and selected matter ; edited by Willis F. Whitehead. By direction of the Brotherhood of magic: The magic mirror, a message to mystics, containing full instructions on its make and use.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: 1898- Books
The amphitheatre engravings of Heinrich Khunrath / translated by Patricia Tahil ; edited by Adam McLean.
Khunrath, Heinrich, 1560-1605.Date: 1981- Books
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Gleanings of antiquities. Containing, I. An essay for explaining the creation and the deluge, according to the sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A discourse of oracles, giving an account of the Sibylline oracles; with an uncommon explication of Virgil's fourth eclogue, and some other Parts of his Works relating to them. To which is Added, An Account of the Oracles delivered at Delphos, and in the other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, both among the sews and Gentiles. III. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. By John Beaumont, Gent.
Beaumont, John, -1731.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
The philosophy of natural magic : a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues .... / Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim ; new forward [sic] to 1974 edited by Leslie Shepard.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: [1974]- Books
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Gleanings of antiquities. Containing, I. An essay for explaining the creation and the deluge, according to the sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A discourse of oracles, giving an account of the Sibylline oracles; with an uncommon explication of Virgil's fourth eclogue, and some other Parts of his Works relating to them. To which is Added, An Account of the Oracles delivered at Delphos, and in the other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, both among the Jews and Gentiles. III. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. By John Beaumont, gent.
Beaumont, John, -1731.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
The archidoxes of magic : of the supreme mysteries of nature, of the spirits of the planets, of the secrets of alchymy, of occult philosophy, the mysteries of the twelve signs of the Zodiack, the magical cure of diseases, of celestial medicines / by Paracelsus ; [translated by Robert Turner].
Paracelsus, 1493-1541.Date: 1975- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints: BW&Co Staff, Explorers
Date: c.1885-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/DM/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - Prints
Date: 1888-1975Reference: WF/M/I/DM/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Post nubila Phoebus. Nihil absque Deo.
Read, William, Sir, -1715Date: [between 1694 and 1700?]- Books
Paracelsus, Autor der Archidoxis magica? / von Wolfgang Schneider.
Schneider, Wolfgang, 1912-2007.Date: 1982- Books
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The world turn'd upside down, or, A plain detection of errors, in the common or vulgar belief, relating to spirits, spectres or ghosts, dæmons, witches, &c : in a due and serious examination of their nature, power, administration, and operation : in what forms or shape incorporeal spirits appear to men, by what means, and of what elements they take to themselves, and form appearances of bodies, visible to mortal eyes, why they appear, and what frights and force of imagination often delude us into the apprehensions of supposed phantasms, through the intimidation of the mind, &c. : also what evil tongues have power to produce of hurt to mankind, or irational creatures, and the effects men and women are able to produce by their communication with good or evil spirits, &c. / written at the request of a person of honour, by B.B., a Protestant minister for publick information.
Bekker, Balthasar, 1634-1698Date: 1700- Books
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Arithmetic, rational and practical. Wherein The properties of Numbers are clearly pointed out, the Theory of the science deduced from first principles, the methods of Operation demonstratively explained, and the whole reduced to Practice in a great variety of useful Rules. Consisting of three parts, viz. I. Vulgar arithmetic. II. Decimal arithmetic. III. Practical arithmetic. By John Mair, A.M. Rector of the Academy at Perth.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - 10 x 8 Negatives, Exhibition text
Date: 1855-1989Reference: WF/M/I/DM/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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An admonition to the people of all countries. Book second. That not only our Saviour's second coming is at hand, and the restoration of the Hebrews to their own Land, before the expiry of 1798, under their Prince and Prophet Richard Brothers, but also the abolition of the papacy, and all Antichristian Religions, Before the Conclusion of 1798. and the establishment of Christ's blessed Kingdom when war will Cease Unto the Ends of the Earth. By John Finlayson, Late Writer in Cupar, Fife, and One of the Procurators Before the Courts there.
Finlayson, John, 1770-1854.Date: [1797]- Books
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A compendium of simple arithmetic; in which the first rules of that pleasing science are made familiar to the capacities of youth.
Date: 1800- Archives and manuscripts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.8744- Archives and manuscripts
Professor Oliver Wrong
Professor Oliver Wrong (1925-2012)Date: 1946 - 2016Reference: PP/WRO- Books
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Medical researches: being an enquiry into the nature and origin of hysterics in the female constitution, and into the Distinction between that Disease and Hypochondriac or Nervous Disorders. Comprehending A Specification of the characteristic Resinement and Excellence of the Female Constitution and Character. A Research into the Materiality of these Occult Powers and Principles of Activity commonly called life, in the Human Frame. - Into the real Existence of an Image of our whole Organical Frame, in the Seat and Fountain of its Powers, and the physical Probability of there being a Regeneration of that Image in Organs formed for the Transfusion and Multiplication of Individual Life. - The true Nature, Symptoms, and Indications of Cure of the Hysterical Disease. - The Abuse of Sugar, as a Cause of its encreased Frequency, and the encreased Frequency of Infant Mortality. - The precise Seat of Animal Heat. - The Structure of the Blood. - Practical Hints, relative both to the Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases, and the Management of them, &c. &c. Together with The Substance of a Discourse, proving that the Motions of the Blood and Animal Fluids do not depend on the Impulses of the Heart upon the Blood, but must be referred to other Causes, and particularly to an Animal Modification of that universal Principle which is the common Cause of all Organisation, and of all organical Motions in Bodies. To which are added, Four letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, on the Materiality-Density-And Activity of light; and on air. By Andrew Wilson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and Physician to the Medical Asylum, London.
Wilson, Andrew, 1718-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Medical researches: being an enquiry into the nature and origin of hysterics in the female constitution, and into the distinction between that disease and hypochondriac or nervous disorders. Comprehending A Specification of the characteristic Refinement and Excellence of the Female Constitution and Character. A Research into the Materiality of these Occult Powers and Principles of Activity, commonly called Life, in the Human Frame. - Into the real Existence of an Image of our whole Organical Frame, in the Seat and Fountain of its Powers, and the physical Probability of there being a Regeneration of that Image in Organs formed for the Transfusion and Multiplication of Individual Life. - The true Nature, Symptoms, and Indications of Cure of the Hysterical Disease-The Abuse of Sugar, as a Cause of its encreased Frequency, and the encreased frequency of Infant Mortality. - The precise Seat of Animal Heat. - The Structure of the Blood. - Practical Hints, relative both to the Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases, and the Management of them, &c. &c. Together with the substance of a discourse, proving that the motions of the blood and animal fluids, do not depend on the impulses of the heart upon the Blood, but must be referred to other Causes, and particularly to an Animal Modification of that universal Principle which is the common Cause of all Organisation, and of all organical Motions in Bodies. To which are added, four letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, on the Materiality-Density-And Activity of light; and on air. By Andrew Wilson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and Physician to the Medical Asylum, London.
Wilson, Andrew, 1718-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Archives and manuscripts
D'Arcy Hart, Dr Phillip, CBE (1900-2006)
Hart, P. D'Arcy (Philip D'Arcy), 1900-2006Date: 1915-2006Reference: PP/PDH- Archives and manuscripts
Dicks, Henry
Dicks, Henry Victor (1900-1977)Date: 1930-1976Reference: PP/HVD- Archives and manuscripts
Martin Leake, Arthur
Martin Leake, Arthur, 1874-1953Date: 1900-c.1950Reference: AML- Pictures
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A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
Master of Los Balbases (Painter in Burgos), active approximately 1495.Date: [1495?]Reference: 46009i