15 results filtered with: Science - History - 18th century
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Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
Q559929Date: 1729Reference: 25666i- Pictures
Freemasons' symbols, from architectural instruments to cosmic symbols, with an eye looking downward. Etching, 1788.
Date: 1788Reference: 27184i
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Different attributes and displays of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Engraving by Grignion after Le Clerc.
Sébastien LeclercReference: 26173i- Books
Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / Keith Thomson.
Keith Stewart ThomsonDate: [2012], ©2012- Books
The invention of science : a new history of the scientific revolution / David Wootton.
David WoottonDate: 2015
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Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
William Marshall CraigReference: 25918i
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Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
Q559929Date: 1729Reference: 25664i- Books
The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program / edited by Lilla Vekerdy.
Date: 2015
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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.
Charles-Nicolas CochinDate: 1 December 1795Reference: 25995i
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A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
Charles-Nicolas CochinDate: 1 December 1795Reference: 25994i- Books
Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750-1850 / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood.
Date: [2016]
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Academy or university, Portugal or Brazil: elevation. Etching.
Reference: 24548i- E-books
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Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 / Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park.
Lorraine DastonDate: 1998- Pictures
A procession of historical figures accompanying a car on which Time sits measuring the globe; representing the triumph of Time. Engraving by S. Pomarede, 1748, after G. Buti after Bonifacio de' Pitati.
Bonifazio VeroneseDate: 1748Reference: 26230i- E-books
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Nature's body : gender in the making of modern science / Londa Schiebinger.
Londa SchiebingerDate: c1993