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Disputatio physiologica inauguralis, de Foetus Humani Nutrimento, et quibusdam eidem propriis: quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina Honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Evans, Britannus,
Evans, John, 1756-1846.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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The Grand mystery, or Art of meditating over an house of office, restor'd and unveil'd; after the manner of the ingenious Dr. S-ft. With observations historical, political and moral; shewing the derivation of this science from the Chaldees and ¡gyptians; with the particular practice of all nations on this important subject. Also proposals at large for establishing a corporation for erecting 500 publick offices of ease within the cities of London and West-minster, for the conveniency of the nobility and gentry of both sexes, in their natural necessities; which besides the advantages that will thereby accrue to this noble metropolis in particular, will enable the company to divide above a million per ann. to the great benefit also of every proprietor. Dedicated to the profound Dr. W------d, and seriously recommended to all persons that drink the mineral waters of Pyrmont, Bristol, Bath, Tunbridge, Epsom, Scarborough, Acton, Dullege, Richmond, Islington, &c.
Date: 1726
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Jacobi Rohaulti physica. Latinè vertit, recensuit, & adnotationibus ex illustrissimi Isaaci Newtoni philosophiâ maximam partem haustis, amplificavit & ornavit Samuel Clarke, S. T. P. Regiae Majestati à Sacris.
Rohault, Jacques, 1618-1672.Date: M.DCC.X [1710]
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation in two parts, Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, (beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects) more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals, as also in their Generation, &c. With answers to some objections. By John Ray, Late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]
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Philosophia Britannica: or a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography. In a course of twelve lectures, with notes, containing The Physical, Mechanical, Geometrical, and Experimental Proofs and Illustrations of all the Principal Propositions in every Branch of Natural Science. Also A particular Account of the Invention, Structure, Improvement and Uses of all the considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines, With new Calculations relating to their Nature, Power, and Operation. The whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and public Memoirs to the present Year; and embellish'd with seventy-five copper-plates. By B. Martin. In two volumes. ...
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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Proposals for printing by subscription, Lectures on Natural Philosophy, considered In it's present State of Improvement. By George Adams, Author of Essays on the Microscope, Electricity, &c. Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This Work is designed to describe, in a familiar and easy Manner, the principal Phaenomena of Nature; to explain their Causes, and trace their Relation to, and Dependance on those Causes. It is intended to be subservient also to other Purposes,-to be a Source of useful and active Entertainment to young People, while it opens their Minds to enlarged Views of Nature and the Universe:-to point out the true Mode of Reasoning in Philosophy, thus enabling the Reader to distinguish what is found and solid therein, from what is hollow and vain; leading him from a Consideration of the Works of God, to acknowledge and reverence his Power, Wisdom, and Goodness. The Lectures will be written as far as possible in the Manner of Lord Bacon, and will aim (to use his Expression) at assisting the Powers of Man, and extend his Empire over the Works of Creation, by placing the Sciences in such a Light as may excite the Judgment, and promote Invention. Conditions. I. This Work shall be neatly printed in Four Octavo Volumes, illustrated with a Variety of Cuts. II. The Price to Subscribers will be Twenty-Four Shillings. III. No Money is required till the Delivery of the Work, which shall be forwarded with all convenient Expedition. IV. A List of Subscribers' Names will be printed, and delivered with the Work. Subscriptions received by the Author, G. Adams. No. 60, Fleet-Street; J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and J. Philips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street. N.B. The Price will be necessarily raised to Non-Subscribers.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: 1794?]
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A short account of a course of mechanical and experimental philosophy and astronomy. In which will be exhibited the Experiments Necessary for the Explanation of Natural Philosophy in General, Or the Properties of matter, and the Laws by which it acts; Consisting of the following parts, I. Mechanics. II. Hydrostatics. III. Optics. IV. Pneumatics. V. Astronomy. VI. Use of the Globes. To be performed at By Tho. Peat, Surveyor and Accomptant. The Instruments made Use of to illustrate these Experiments are exceeding curious, beautiful, accurate and compleat. Particularly a fine Orrery, as improv'd by Messrs. Cole and Son, Successors to Mr. Wright, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His majesty. A curious Model of a Fire Engine; a Friction Machine, &c. This Course will consist of Fourteen Lectures, each of which will take up about two Hours, and be continued twice or thrice a Week, on such Days and at such Hours, as shall be agreed on by the Majority of the Auditors at the first Lecture.
Peat, Thomas, 1708-1780.Date: [1744?]
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Essays and observations, physical and literary. Read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them. Volume II.
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]
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Essays and observations, physical and literary. Read before the Philosophical Society in Edinburgh, and published by them. Volume III.
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]
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A philosophical enquiry into some of the most considerable phenomena's of nature. In two parts. Wherein, First, the Divine Nature, with the Order, Causes, and ultimate End of the Creation, and particularly, the Human Nature, are considered. And, Secondly, The Nature of the World, with the Progress of her ordinary Course, in Producing, Multiplying, and Changing, her various Species, are briefly stated. Likewise. A Touch on her Defects, with Regard to Maladies in Animal Bodies; and how, and of what, the same are formed; with a hint, to avoid Dangers in the Rosacrucian Navigation. The whole conformable to the Doctrine of Fermentation.
Date: 1715
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The philosophical transactions (from the year 1700 to the year 1720.) abridg'd, and dispos'd under general heads. In two volumes. By Henry Jones, M. A. and Fellow of King's College in Cambridge. ... Containing Part I. The Mathematical Papers. Part II. The Physiological Papers.
Royal Society (Great Britain)Date: 1731
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2000 years of science, Hippocrates to Leonardo : [an exhibition] October 17,1952 to January 3,1953.
Pierpont Morgan Library.Date: [1952?]
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The newtonian system of philosophy. Adapted to the capacities of young ladies and gentlemen, And familiarized and made entertaining, By Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the substance of six lectures, read to a Select Company of Friends, by Tom Telescope, A.M. First collected and methodized by the late Mr. Newberry, for the Instruction and rational Entertainment of the Youth of these Kingdoms. Illustrated with Copperplates.
Telescope, Tom.Date: [1794]
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Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, abridged by himself. To which are added, Some observations on the Chronology of Sir Isaac Newton. Done from the French, by a gentleman.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]
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Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, considered in its present state of improvement. Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner The Principal Phenomena of Nature; and Shewing that they all Co-Operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God. By the Late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, &c. In five volumes, the fifth volume consisting of the plates and index. The second edition, with considerable corrections and additions, by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker. ...
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: [1799]
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The philosophicall touch-stone: or Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's Discourses of the nature of bodies and of the reasonable soule : In which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindicated, the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved. And the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing The soules mortality, briefly slighted. / By Alexander Ross.
Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654Date: 1645
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Essays and observations, physical and literary. Read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them. Volume I.
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.Date: M,DCC,LIV. [1754]
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Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power.
Power, Henry, 1623-1668Date: 1664
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Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras : ex physicis causis & vera experientia extructa: & ea methodo tradita, vt quiuis facile, in genere, comnium thematum iuditia inde colligere possit: Cypriano Leouitio à Leonicia, excellente mathematico, autore. Præfixa est admonitio de vero & licito astrologiæ vsu: per Hieronymum VVolfium, ... Adiectus est præterea libellus de præstantioribus quibusdam naturæ virtutibus: Ioanne Dee Londinense authore.
Leowitz, Cyprian, 1524-1574Date: Anno. M. D. LVIII. Mense Iulio. [1558]
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Two treatises : in the one of which, the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule, is looked into : in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665Date: 1645
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Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique / Par Jean Ingen-Housz.
Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799.Date: 1785-1789
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Curiositates philosophicæ sive de principiis rerum naturalium dissertatio selecta, in qua novo methodo, de generatione Hominum, Animalium, Arborum, Plantarum, itemque de Causis Amoris, Ventorum, Tonitru, Fulminis &c., tractatur. Auctore T. S. J.F. Cum figuris aeneis.
Santvoort, Theodorus.Date: MDCCXIII. [1713]
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A ternary of paradoxes : The magnetick cure of wounds. Nativity of tartar in wine. Image of God in man. / Written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont, and translated, illustrated, and ampliated by Walter Charleton, Doctor in Physick, and physician to the late King.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644Date: 1650 [i.e. 1649]
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The newtonian philosophy compared with that of Leibnitz. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
Voltaire, 1694-1778.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation. In two parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects. More particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency; and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man, and other Animals; as also in their Generation, &c. with answers to some objections. By John Ray, F. R. S.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]