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Windscale : a summary of the evidence and the argument / The Guardian [daily reports: Michael Morris and Malcolm Pithers].
Date: [1977]- Archives and manuscripts
Windsor Forest
Date: 1961-1970Reference: SA/MSS/C/220Part of: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland- Pictures
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Windsor Forest and Windsor Great Park: two mounted huntsmen with their hounds; in the background, a mansion surrounded by trees. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1850.
Date: [1850?]Reference: 573415i- Archives and manuscripts
"Windsor 1999": Nuffield conference papers and correspondence
Date: 1999-2000Reference: ART/AFH/A/26/3Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Books
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Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown. By Mr. Pope.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1713- Books
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Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable. George Lord Lansdown. By Mr. Pope.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1720- Books
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Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown. By Mr. Pope.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1713- Books
Freemasonry and the birth of modern science / Robert Lomas.
Lomas, Robert, 1947-Date: 2003, ©2002- Books
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Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, and its component parts, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Of Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shell-Fish, Lizards, And Serpents; With A General View Of The Insect World. Illustrated with a great variety of copper-plates, elegantly engraved.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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The history of the Lancashire witches. Containing the manner of their becoming such; their enchantments, Spels, Revels, Merry Pranks, raising of Storms and Tempests, riding on Winds, &c. The Entertainments and Frolicks which have happened among them: with the Loves and Humours of Roger and Dorothy. Also a treatise of witches in general. Conducive to mirth and Recreation.
Date: 1785?]- Books
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The history of the Lancashire witches. Containing the manner of their becoming such; their Enchantments, Spells, Revels, merry Pranks, raising of Storms and Tempests, riding on Winds, &c. The Entertainment and Frolicks which happened among them. With the loves and Humours of Roger and Dorothy. Also, A Treatise of Witches in General Conducive to Mirth and Recreation. The like never before Published.
Date: 1785?]- Books
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A history of the voyages and travels of Capt. Nathaniel Uring. With new draughts of the Bay of Honduras and the Caribee Islands; and particularly of St. Lucia, and the Harbour of Petite Carenage; into which Ships may run in bad Weather, and be safe from all Winds and Storms. Very useful for Masters of Ships that use the Leeward Island Trade, or Jamaica.
Uring, Nathaniel.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A history of the voyages and travels of Capt. Nathaniel Uring. With new draughts of the Bay of Honduras and the Caribbee Islands; and particularly of St. Lucia, and the Harbour of Petite Carenage; into which Ships may run in bad Weather, and be safe from all Winds and Storms. Very useful for Masters of Ships that use the Leeward Island Trade, or Jamaica.
Uring, Nathaniel.Date: 1726- Books
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Geographical extracts, forming a general view of earth and nature. In four parts: Part I. Curious Particulars respecting the Globe-Various Phaenomena of Nature-Winds-Waters-The Electric Fluid. Part II. Natural Productions of the Earth-Mines, Minerals, and Fossils-Vegetables. Part III. Animal Productions-Reptiles-Fishes-Insects-Birds and Fowl-Quadrupeds. Part IV. Peculiarities in the Human Species. Illustrated with maps. By John Payne, Author of the Epitome of History, &c.
Payne, John, active 1800.Date: 1796- Books
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A new directory for the East-Indies: containing, I. The first discoveries made in the East-Indies by European voyagers and Travellers. II. The Origin Construction, and Application Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The natural Causes, and observed Phaenomena, of the constant and variable Winds, Trade-Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands, Rocks, Harbours, Shoals, Sands, Sea-Marks, Soundings, &c. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas, to the best Advantage, at different Times of the Year. VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies, as recommended and practised by experienced Navigators and Mariners. The whole being a work originally begun upon the plan of the oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. Will. Herbert, Mr. Will. Nichelson, and others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. Sixth edition. To which is added an appendix.
Herbert, William, 1718-1795.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica. Also An account of the Trade-Winds, and of the variable Winds and Currents on the Coasts thereabouts, at different Seasons of the Year. Illustrated with a chart of the Coast of Florida, and of the Islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller Islands, Shoals, Rocks, and other remarkable Things in the Course of the Navigation in the West-Indies. Whereby is demonstrated, The Precariousness of those Voyages to the West-India Merchants, and the Impossibility of their Homeward-Bound Ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's The Whole very necessary for the Information of such as never were in those Parts of the World. To which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies.
Cowley, J. (John).Date: 1739- Pictures
Temple of the winds, Athens. Lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 3183766i- Books
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A theory of the winds, shewing by a new hypothesis, the physical causes of all winds in general: With the Solution of all the Variety and Phaenomena thereof, as it was read to the Royal Society. By Bernard Annely.
Annely, Bernard.Date: 1729- Books
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A theory of the winds, shewing by a new hypothesis, the physical causes of all winds in general: with the solution of all the variety and phaenomena thereof. As it was read to the Royal Society / By Bernard Annely.
Annely, Bernard.Date: 1729- Books
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A collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters, which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land, on Friday the twenty-sixth of November, seventeen hundred and three. To which is added, Several very surprizing Deliverances. The natural Causes and Original of Winds. Of the Opinion of the Ancients, that this Island was more subject to Storms than other Parts of the World. With several other curious Observations upon the Storm. The whole divided into Chapters under proper Heads.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1713]- Pictures
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Where the soft winds blow.
Charnley, Bryan, 1949-1991Date: [1990]Reference: 3049686i- Books
An historical account of the trade winds and monsoons, observable in the seas between and near the tropics, with an attempt to assign the physical cause of the said winds / by Ed. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
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A voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; in His Majesty's Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth. Describing the several Islands and Settlements, Viz-Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea Coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies. The Colour, Diet, Languages, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Religions of the respective Natives, and Inhabitants. With Remarks on the Gold, Ivory, and Slave-Trade; and on the Winds, Tides and Currents of the several Coasts. By John Atkins, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Atkins, John, 1685-1757.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A compendious system of natural philosophy. With notes, containing the mathematical demonstrations, and some occasional remarks. Part II. Continued. Consisting of five Dissertations. I. Of the Barometer. II. Of the Cause and Origin of the Winds. III. Of the Ascent of Vapours, and their Resolution into Rain, Hail, Snow, &c. IV. Of the Causes of Thunder and Lightning, with a Solution of the Phaenomena of the Aurora Borealis. V. A New Theory of Fermentation. By J. Rowning, M. A. Rector of Anderby in Lincolnshire, and late Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge.
Rowning, J. (John), 1701?-1771.Date: [1745]- Books
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Theophrastus of Eresus on winds and on weather signs / tr., with an introduction and notes, and an appendix on the direction, number and nomenclature of the winds in classical and later times by Jas. G. Wood ... and edited by G.J. Symons.
Theophrastus.Date: 1894