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Space that is empty of matter

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  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.
  • 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.
  • Pneumatics: a heavy weight suspended from an evacuated sphere. Engraving.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
  • Pneumatics: two men extracting [?] air from an iron sphere. Engraving, 16--.
  • Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, et ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. Ejusdem dissertatio anatomica, de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli motu / [Jean Pecquet].
  • A female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics. Etching by C.L. de Lingée after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773.

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Great Britain
Pneumatics
Air
Food Preservation
Experiments
History, 18th Century
Science - History
Oxygen
Women - Mythology