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Academie Des Sciences134
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)129
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie (1716-1799)81
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Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon73
Lacepede, Bernard Germaine Etienne De La Ville Sur Illon Comte De (1756-1825)73
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Early Science 1 1847/REN
Bird miscellanies : illustrative of the habits and the faculties of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1847
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Early Science 1 1774/COR
The art of measuring, made easy by the help of a new sliding-rule, which performs the same, at one operation, as requires two, three, or more, on the sliding rules heretofore used

Corson, Mary

1774
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Early Science 1 1569/ALB
De mineralibus et rebus metallicis libri quinque

Albertus Magnus, Saint (1193?-1280)

1569
Includes index.
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Early Science 1 1664/SWA
Querelae & opprobria ventriculi, sive, Prosopopoiia ejusdem naturalia sua sibi vendicantis & abusus tam diaeteticos, quam pharmaceuticos perstringentis

Swalve, Bernhard (1625-1680)

1664
Added, engraved t.p., illustrated, with title: Ventriculi querelae et opprobria.
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Early Science 1 1653/BAC
The naturall and experimental history of winds, &c

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Gentilis, Robert (1590-1654)

1653
Originally intended to form a part of the author's Instauratio magna, a work which was not completed. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue, new ed. With 16-page publisher's list of 140 books at end. R. G. is ...
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Early Science 1 1664/BEC
Institutiones chimicæ prodromæ, id est, Joannis Joachimi Becheri... Oedipus chimicus obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum, mysteria aperiens & resolvens : Opusculum, omnibus medicinæ & chimiæ studiosis, lectu perquam utile & necessarium

Becher, Johann Joachim (1635-1682)

1664
"There were two editions of this book in 1664, one of which appeared at Amsterdam and the other one at Frankfurt... It may be supposed that the Frankfurt edition is the original and the Amsterdam edit...
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Early Science 1 1742/TAB
Sir Isaac Newton's Tables for renewing and purchasing the leases of cathedral-churches and colleges : according to the several rates of interest : with their construction and use explained. Also tables for renewing and purchasing the leases of land or houses, very necessary and useful for all purchasers, but especially those who are in any way concerned in church or college leases. To which is added, The value of church and college leases consider'd, and the advantage to the lessees made very apparent

Mabbut, George; Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Manningham, Thomas Bishop of Chichester (1651?-1722)

1742
Attributed to George Mabbut in NUC pre-1956. Erroneously attributed to Sir Isaac Newton.
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Early Science 1 1557/GES
Thesaurus Evonymi Philiatri de remediis secretis : liber physicus, medicus, & partim etia[m] chymicus, & oeconomicus in vinorum diversi saporis apparatu, medicis & pharmacopolis omnibus praecipuè necessarius. Quem praeter haec quae antea prelo commissa fuere, quàm plurimis fornacum figuris & auximus, & illustravimus

Gesner, Konrad (1516-1565)

1557
Evonymus Philiatrus is a pseudonym of Konrad Gesner.
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Early Science 1 1561/ALE
D. Alexii Pedemontani De secretis libri sex mira quadam varietate referti

Alessio Piemontese; Wecker, Johann Jacob (1528-1586); Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)

1561
Pagination irregular.
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Early Science 1 1568/ZAC
Opuscule tres-eccellent, de la vraye philosophie naturelle des metaulx : traictant de l'augmentation & parfection d'iceulx, avec advertissement d'eviter les folles despéces qui se font ordinairement par faulte de vraye science

Zacaire, Denis (1510-1556); Bernard, of Trevisan

1568
For the work here ascribed to Bernardus Trevirensis (or Trevisanus), cf. Lynn Thorndike, A history of magic and experimental science, v. 3 (1934) p. 619.
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Early Science 1 1680/HEL
Unversehenes Praecipitatum dess ost-indischen Mercurii : oder aller irrgehenden Philosophen, und des Goldmachenden-Steins begierigen Alchymisten plötzlicher Tod

Keysers, Johan of Breda; Scheffer, Matthias

1681
"M. S." is Matthias Scheffer.
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Early Science 1 1690/HAN
Cato chemicus tractatus quo verae ac genuinae philosophiae hermeticae, & fucatae ac sophisticae pseudo chemiae & utriusque magistrorum characterismi accurate delineantur

Hanneman, Johan Ludwig (1640-1724)

1690
Sigs. A to D in twelves.