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  • Acoustics: sonic phenomena and musical instruments. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Essays and observations, physical and literary : read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them.
  • The Wellcome Centre for Medical Science : an introduction, June 1992.
  • The pardoxal [sic] discourses of M.F. van Helmont, concerning the macrocosm and microcosm: or, the greater and lesser world and their union / Set down in writing by J.B. and now published.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / text: Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne.
  • Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
  • Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
  • The world of wonders : a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art.
  • Memorias de mathematica e phisica da Academia R. das Sciencias de Lisboa.
  • Memorias de mathematica e phisica da Academia R. das Sciencias de Lisboa.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / text: Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne.
  • Science: a pair of blow-pipes (above), and a calculating engine (below). Wood engraving, 1841.
  • The museum of science and art / edited by Dionysius Lardner.
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].
  • A history of 6-9 Carlton House Terace / Royal Society.
  • Putti study the plants in a botanical garden; representing botany. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • The Edinburgh journal of science.
  • A quadrangle designed for St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1746.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Foreign members of the Royal Society / D.C. Martin.
  • An alchemist at his alembic; surrounded by vignettes of scientific pursuits. Wood engraving by Dalziel, 18--.