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.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Pneumatics: a heavy weight suspended from an evacuated sphere. Engraving.

Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.

Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.

Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.

Inventions: a rat-trap (top) a bellows (centre) and an electrical capacitor [?] (below). Engraving.

An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.

Pneumatics: scientific equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.

Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.

Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

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.

Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.

Georgii Sinclari quondam in Universitate Glasguensi ... Ars nova et magna gravitatis et levitatis. Sive dialogorum philosophicorum libri sex de aeris verâ ac reali gravitate, &c. Quibus accessere de instrumentis hydrogogicis libri duo: de hygroscopio, & chronoscopio seu pendulo liber unus, nec non Palladis Gymnasium ... / [George Sinclair].

Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.

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Pneumatics

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Images about Pneumatics

Works from the collections

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.

Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.

Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.

Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

Pneumatics

Images from the collections

Images about Pneumatics

Works from the collections

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.

Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.

Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.

Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

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