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Vacuum

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  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.
  • Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Pneumatics: a heavy weight suspended from an evacuated sphere. Engraving.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
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    Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

    | Date: 1 August 1795 | Reference: 47579i
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    Specification of Ludwig Granholm : preserving vegetable and animal products.

    Granholm, Ludvig. | Date: 1855
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    Tractatus, in quibus continentur suspiciones de latentibus quibusdam qualitatibus aeris; : unà cum appendice de magnetibus coelestibus, nonnullisque argumentis aliis, animadversiones in d. Hobbesii Problemata de vacuo, et dissertatio de causa attractionis per suctionem. / Authore Roberto Boyle.

    Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. | Date: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]
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    Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, et ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. Ejusdem dissertatio anatomica, de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli motu / [Jean Pecquet].

    Pecquet, Jean, 1622-1674. | Date: Anno MDCLI 1651
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    Specification of Victor Theodore Junod : vacuum apparatus for the relief of inflammatory diseases.

    Junod, Victor Theodore. | Date: 1866
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