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A discourse of the Romane foot, and denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced / By John Greaves.
Greaves, John, 1602-1652Date: 1647- Archives and manuscripts
Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis (1799-1887)
Hébert, Michel Pierre Alexis, 1799-1887Date: 1855-1859Reference: MS.2822- Books
Observations on medical weights and measures : with the method for their adjustment in the new British Pharmacopœia / by Charles Wilson.
Wilson, CharlesDate: 1859
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Receipt Book, English, 17th century
Date: Circa 17th centuryReference: MS.7577- Books
Essays on Indian antiquities, historic, numismatic, and palaeographic, of the late James Prinsep : ... to which are added his useful tables illustrative of Indian history, chronology, modern coinages, weight measures, etc / edited with notes and additional matter by Edward Thomas.
Prinsep, James, 1799-1840Date: 1971- Archives and manuscripts
Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)
Finch, Sir John, 1584-1660Date: 1658-1660Reference: MS.2362
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Tables of physical and chemical constants and some mathematical functions / by G.W.C. Kaye and T.H. Laby.
Kaye, G. W. C. (George William Clarkson), 1880-1941Date: 1911- Books
Smithsonian physical tables.
Date: 1964- Books
Arabische Medizinalmasse und -gewichte in lateinischen Übersetzungen arabischer medizinischer Literatur / Irene Fellmann.
Fellmann, IreneDate: 1985- Books
SI unit conversion guide / Michael Laposata.
Laposata, MichaelDate: 1992
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Receuil de médecine
Date: c. 1695-c. 1750Reference: MS.4137
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Report upon weights and measures / By John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the United States. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817.
United States. Department of StateDate: 1821- Books
A sixteenth-century decimal system of weights / by Cyril Stanley-Smith.
Smith, Cyril Stanley.Date: [1955]
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Weights and measures in the Exchequer, 15th century.
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Medical notebook and recipe book
Date: 1827-1842Reference: MS.8496
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Arithmetic of pharmacy / by A.B. Stevens.
Stevens, A. B. (Alviso Burdett), 1853-1940Date: 1920- Books
The medical use of scales : an historical remark / Bruno Kisch.
Kisch, Bruno.Date: [1960]
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Subsidios para a historia da India portugueza : publicados de ordem da Classe de sciencias moraes, politicas e bellas-lettras da Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa / e sob a direcção de Rodrigo José de Lima Felner ... obra subsidiada pelo governo de Portugal.
Academia das Ciências de LisboaDate: 1868
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Measures, weights, & moneys of all nations : and an analysis of the Christian, Hebrew, and Mahometan calendars / by W.S.B. Woolhouse.
Woolhouse, W. S. B. (Wesley Stoker Barker), 1809-1893Date: 1856- Archives and manuscripts
Vischer, Bernhard
Vischer, BernhardDate: 1590Reference: MS.794
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Herbal compendium, with miscellaneous medical and religious texts
Date: c.1490Reference: MS.335
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On the proposal to introduce a new grain weight / by G.E. Paget.
Paget, Sir George Edward, 1809-1892.Date: [1862]- Books
Units of measurement : an encyclopaedic dictionary of units, both scientific and popular and the quantities they measure / Stephen Dresner.
Dresner, StephenDate: 1971
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Tables of physical and chemical constants and some mathematical functions / by G.W.C. Kaye and T.H. Laby.
Kaye, G. W. C. (George William Clarkson), 1880-1941Date: [1941]- Archives and manuscripts
Rossier, Josué (& others)
Rossier, JosuéDate: c. 1730Reference: MS.4274