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Pneumatics

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

    Ferguson, James, 1710-1776. | Date: 1761
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    Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.

    | Reference: 47571i
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    Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

    | Date: 1 August 1795 | Reference: 47579i
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    Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.

    | Date: 1802 | Reference: 47576i
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    Tractatus scripti à Roberto Boyle ... ubi: 1. Mira aeris ... rarefactio detecta. 2. Observata nova circa durationem virtutis elasticae aeris expansi. 3. Experimenta nova de condensatione aeris ... 4. Ejusdem quantitatis aeris rarefacti et compressi mire discrepans extensio / [Robert Boyle].

    Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. | Date: 1671
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