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  • The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • Zur Physik Leonardo da Vincis / [Otto Werner].
  • M0014526: Volta's pile and 'crown of cups'
  • Essayes of natural experiments made in the Academie del Cimento. Under the protection of the most serene Prince Leopold of Tvscany / Written in Italian by the Secretary of that Academy. Englished by Richard Waller.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    'Ich war im Tempel des Weltgeistes' : Franz Joseph Schelver (1778-1832) als Magnetiseur in Heidelberg / Klaus-Dieter Müller und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

    Müller, Klaus Dieter. | Date: 1993
    • Books

    De vi percvssionis liber / Io. Alphonsi Borelli.

    Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679. | Date: 1667
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Nobel address, 1929

    Broglie, Louis Victor de, Prince, 1892-1987. | Date: 1929 | Reference: MS.1359
    Part of: Broglie, Louis Victor de, Prince (1892-1987)
    • Books

    From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

    Coblentz, William W. (William Weber), 1873-1962. | Date: [1951], ©1951
    • Books

    A theory of natural philosophy / put forward and explained by Roger Joseph Boscovich.

    Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787. | Date: 1922
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