French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Plusieurs secrets rares et curieux, pour la guérison des maladies; pour la metallique, l'oeconomique, et les teintures; la médecine du flos-coeli; et autres curiositez / [Quesnot].

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