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Fireworks
Low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes
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A firework display at the entry of Ferdinand Infante of Spain into Ghent, 1636. Etching.
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Date: [1636]
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Reference: 32746i
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Pyrotechnics: elevations of machinery with details of various components used in the making of fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Reference: 37673i
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671
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Date: 1677
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Receuil de médecine
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Date: c. 1695-c. 1750
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Reference: MS.4137
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Human chromosomes in a cancer cell
Paul J.Smith &Rachel Errington
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