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A female nude draws a compass over a globe; representing astrology. Engraving attributed to G. Bonasone, 1544.
Date: 1544Reference: 25916i- Pictures
King Charles I. Engraving by W. Marshall, 1649.
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650.Date: [1649]Reference: 2033435i- Books
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An essay on the nature and wonderful properties of island crystal, respecting its manifold and unusual refraction of light.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1770?]- Books
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The young gentleman and lady's astronomy, familiarly explained in ten dialogues between Neander and Eudosia. To which is added, the description and use of the globes and armillary sphere. Illustrated with copper plates. The sixth edition. By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Pictures
A surgeon bleeding a woman's arm, she is being comforted by her husband (?). Etching.
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Astronomy: an astrologer sits in a landscape with his hand on a globe. Line engraving, 1707 [?].
Date: 1707Reference: 46335i- Books
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The description and use of an orrery of a new construction, Representing in the various Parts of its Machinery all the Motions and Phoenomena of the Planetary System; To which is subjoin'd a mathematical theory For calculating the Wheel-Work to the greatest Degree of Exactness. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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A tutor to astronomie and geographie, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestrial : in six books : the first teaching the rudiments of astronomie and geographie, the 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. shewing by the globe the solution of astronomical & geographical prob., problemes in navigation, arstological [sic] problemes, gnomonical problemes, trigonometrical problemes, more fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes : and that so plainly and methodically that the meanest capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these divine sciences : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691Date: 1670- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, the phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Pictures
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Two personified female and male world globes holding hands; advertising awareness and education in AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1988.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676456i- Pictures
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A woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
Floris, Frans, 1519 or 1520-1570.Date: 1565Reference: 25661i- Books
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The description and use of a graphical perspective and microscope, For drawing all Kinds of Objects in true Perspective, and a just Proportion of their Parts, with Readiness and Ease. To which is added, A short Account of an Opake solar microscope. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere, and orrery, exemplified in a large and select variety of problems in astronomy, geography, dialling, navigation, spherical trigonometry, chronology, &c. Also, A New Construction of each Globe, by an Apparatus exhibiting the Phaenomena of the Earth and Heavens exactly as they are, and adapting the same to every Age of the World. The second edition corrected, and enlarged with the Addition of many useful Subjects; and an appendix of chronology, or the Doctrine of Time. The whole embellished with five copper plates of the Instruments, &c. By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1773?]- Books
Guilielmi Blaeu Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Duabus partibus adornata, una, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem, altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem / Latine reddita a M. Hortensio.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.Date: 1640- Pictures
An interior of sixteenth century monastic pharmacy. Watercolour, 19--.
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Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: [between 1650 and 1659?]Reference: 543395i- Pictures
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Mr. Gray's School, Westminster: the interior. Lithograph by J. Miller.
Miller, J. (Lithographer)Reference: 40176i- Pictures
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A female figure resting her arm on a globe; representing geography. Stipple engraving.
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The use of the globes, containing definitions, and propositions, geographical and astronomical.
Date: in the Year M,DCC,LIII. [1753]- Books
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L'usage des globes céleste et terrestre, et des spheres suivant les differens systemes du monde / Précédé d'un traité de cosmographie. ... Accompagné des figures nécessaires. ... Par le Sieur Bion.
Bion, N. (Nicolas), 1652-1733.Date: 1728- Pictures
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Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
Chilton, Robert Courbold, 1762-1816.Reference: 46350i- Pictures
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Emblem representing the path to the philosopher's stone in alchemy. Etching by Defehrt, 1768, after L.-J. Goussier, after the frontispiece to a 17th century book by Libavius.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [1768]Reference: 37240i- Books
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The geographical magazine; or, a new, copious, compleat, and universal system of geography. ... By William Frederick Martyn, Esq. ...
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.Date: M DCCXCIII, [1785-93]- Pictures
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Astronomy: an astronomer [?] in his study, looking out of the window. Lithograph by M. Jackson after J. G.
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A new and easy guide to the use of the globes; and the rudiments of geography. Wherein The Knowledge of the Heavens and Earth is made easy to the meanest Capacity: First, by giving a concise Account of the four Quarters of the World, with the Distance and Situation of the principal Islands and inland Places; and Secondly, by the Solution of Seventy useful Problems, in Geography, Astronomy, Navigation, &c. To which are annexed, three useful tables. I. Shews the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Places from the Meridian of London. II. Shews the Sun's Place, Declination, Time of Rising and Setting; Length of Days and Nights, and Beginning and Ending of Twilight every Week, according to the New Style. III. Shews the Latitude, Longitude, Right Ascension, and Declination of the most eminent fixed Stars. By Daniel Fenning, Author of the School-Masters Useful Companion, or Scholars best Instructor; the Royal English Dictionary, published by the King's Authority; the British Youth's Instructor, or, A New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic; and the Young Man's Book of Knowledge. Recommended by several eminent Mathematicians.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1770