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The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.

Essayes of natural experiments made in the Academie del Cimento. Under the protection of the most serene Prince Leopold of Tvscany / Written in Italian by the Secretary of that Academy. Englished by Richard Waller.

Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.

Mr. Pearsall's lectures and visits, (as agent and lecturer to the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes).

A child blowing bubbles. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1761, after G. Netscher, 1670 (?).

Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S.

Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Nine demonstrations of speed, inertia and gravity. Colour zincograph by F. Gillot after C. Bethmont.

'Ich war im Tempel des Weltgeistes' : Franz Joseph Schelver (1778-1832) als Magnetiseur in Heidelberg / Klaus-Dieter Müller und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

De vi percvssionis liber / Io. Alphonsi Borelli.

Nobel address, 1929

From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

A theory of natural philosophy / put forward and explained by Roger Joseph Boscovich.

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'Ich war im Tempel des Weltgeistes' : Franz Joseph Schelver (1778-1832) als Magnetiseur in Heidelberg / Klaus-Dieter Müller und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

De vi percvssionis liber / Io. Alphonsi Borelli.

Nobel address, 1929

From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

A theory of natural philosophy / put forward and explained by Roger Joseph Boscovich.