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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
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| Royal Society (Great Britain) | 10 |
| Baddam, Benjamin | 10 |
| Academie Des Sciences | 5 |
| Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929) | 5 |
| Martyn, John (1699-1768) | 5 |
| Chambers, Ephraim (1680-1740) | 5 |
| Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) | 5 |
| Rotherham Literary and Scientific Society | 4 |
| Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) | 4 |
| Darwin, Sir Francis (1848-1925) | 3 |
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Press cuttings
1825-1888
Press cuttings on meterological phenomena, inland navigation and a copy of the Courier with a tax stamp. (Joseph) Alfred Novello was known to have been interested in science and invested in new infras...
Feeling the pressure : poetry and science of climate change
Munden, Paul
2008
Science I: Trends -- Trends in observed and future climate -- Science II: Extremes -- Extreme weather -- Science III: Impacts -- Impacts on human health, ecosystems, urban and agricultural areas -- Sc...
Science and the modern world
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)
1927
"First English edition 1926"--Title page verso.
'Recent Celestial Phenomena', The Times, 18 December 1883, p. 7
18 Dec 1883
Press cutting titled 'Recent Celestial Phenomena', The Times, 18 December 1883, p. 7. Contains five letters to the editor detailing different theories on the causes of recent extraordinary sunsets and...
Professor Saunderson's lectures upon hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, mechanics, and astronomy ; the nature of the rain bow ; the doctrine of sounds ; and the cause of tides : together with a compendium of technical chronology.
Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739)
c.1740
Contains Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on various mathematical, physical, and technical topics, probably written up about the date of his death.
Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex
Titus Lucretius Carus; Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747)
1713
Title-page engraved with vignette. Preface by Michael Maittaire.
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus : quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantamorphon Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur (v.1)
Kircher, Athanasius (1680)
1665
Vol. 1 and 2 have added title-page, engraved, dated 1664; also issued with added title-page, engraved, dated 1665. Vol. 2 has title: Mundi subterranei tomus IIus in V libros digestus.
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus : quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantamorphon Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur (v.2)
Kircher, Athanasius (1680)
1665
Vol. 1 and 2 have added title-page, engraved, dated 1664; also issued with added title-page, engraved, dated 1665. Vol. 2 has title: Mundi subterranei tomus IIus in V libros digestus.
Renati Des-Cartes Opera philosophica
Descartes, René (1596-1650); Courcelles, Etienne de (1586-1659); H. D. M (1725)
[anno 1664]
Each part has special t.-p., that for part 3 with imprint: Amstelodami, Apud L. & D. Elzevirios, anno 1664. Title vignettes: printer's marks (part 1-2, Rahihr M. 19; part 3, Rahir M. 16). Portrait...