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Biological Laboratories
- Circa 1919
Tree photographs of the biological laboratories at Eli Lilly & Company showing the antitoxin laboratory, aisle in guinea pig house, and antitoxin laboratory.
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this handbook is meant for…
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Lilly Dental Preparations
- (Right side of spread)
- Circa 1919
Illustration of bottles containing dental therapeutic products. Formula of Dr. J. P. Buckley.
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this handbook is meant for pharmacists. It is a list of products and contains practical…
- Author Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Dental therapeutics
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Viewing Objects through a Prism
- Fig. 29
- 1872 (Published)
Man viewing candle light through a prism. Illustration for section 16. Refraction of Monochromatic Light by a Prism.
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Solar Spectra of Prominences, Corona, Aurora Borealis, and Chromosphere
- Pl. IX
- 1872 (Published)
This plate illustrates four spectra from solar phenomena.
Spectrum 1 is Solar Spectrum and Spectrum of the Prominences, during a total Eclipse.
Spectrum 2 is Spectrum of the Corona. Observed by Charles Young…- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart
- Subject Spectrum, Solar, Spectrum analysis, Astronomy, Scientific illustration
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Solar Prominence Observed by Zollner
- Pl. XI
- 1872 (Published)
Prominences represented in their natural colors, as seen through a large telescope when the slit of the spectroscope was open wide and directed on to the red C-line. These prominences are characteristic of the an…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Sun
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Spectrum Analysis in its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies
- 1872 (Published)
Translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell; edited with notes by William Huggins; with numerous woodcuts and colored plates.
From the Preface: "Its object is, on the one…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Subject Spectrum analysis
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Solar Prominence Observed by Respighi in 1870
- Pl. XIII
- 1872 (Published)
Lorenzo Respighi (1824-1889) was the director of the University Observatory at the Campidoglio at Rome. Starting in October of 1869 he observed daily the entire limb of the sun recording prominences and other phenomena.…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Respighi, Lorenzo, 1824-1889, Sun
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Total Solar Eclipse of 18th August, 1868, at Mantawaloc-Kekee
- Fig. 121
- 1872 (Published)
An illustration of a solar eclipse during the last 2 minutes, 25 seconds, therefore just before the reappearance of the sun's rays. The accompanying text states: ""Scarcely had the last ray of sunlight disappeared,"…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Astronomy, Solar eclipses, Sun, Scientific illustration
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Total Solar Eclipse Observed from India in 1868
- Pl. VII
- 1872 (Published)
Prints from photographs taken by Colonel James Francis Tennant (1829-1915). The upper picture shows the eclipse at the moment of totality, and the lower one immediately before it's cessation. Observed from Guntoor,…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Astronomy, Solar eclipses, Sun, Scientific illustration
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Corona photographed at Syracuse by Mr. Brothers, Dec 22nd, 1870
- Pl. X
- 1872 (Published)
From a photograph taken of a solar eclipse observed from Syracuse, Sicily on 22 December 1870.
From text: "The photograph taken by Mr. Brothers is very valuable, since it shows the halo extending towards the…- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Astronomy, Solar eclipses, Sun, Solar radiation, Italy--Syracuse
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Lockyer's Telespectroscope
- Fig. 135
- 1872 (Published)
An illustration of a man using Lockyer's telespectroscope. Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), designed this instrument in order to observe the spectra of the prominences in full sunlight. Lockyer is best known for…
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The Changes in the Appearance of a Spot caused by the Rotation of the Sun
- Fig. 106.
- 1872 (Published)
Here Schellen is illustrating and explaining the phenomenon of sunspots. The accompanying text states: "In Fig. 106 the drawings marked I represent the varying phases through which a spot surrounded by a penumbra…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Subject Sunspots, Astronomy, Sun, Spectrum analysis
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Frontispiece: Table of Spectra
- 1872 (Published)
Chromolithograph of a table of spectra in full color.
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Scientific illustration, Spectrum analysis
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Solar Prominence Observed by Young
- Pl. XII
- 1872 (Published)
Prominences represented in their natural colors, as seen through a large telescope when the slit of the spectroscope was open wide and directed on to the red C-line. These prominences are characteristic of the a…
- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart (Printers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Sun
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Total Solar Eclipse (North America) 1869 August 7
- Pl. VIII
- 1872 (Published)
This plate contains two prints from photographs of a solar eclipse viewed in Burlington, Iowa on August 7, 1869.
"The photographic plates, which were exposed for the brief space of from five to sixteen seconds, give…- Author Schellen, Heinrich, 1818-1884
- Printer Of Plates M. & N. Hanhart
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Astronomy, Solar eclipses, Sun
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The Compound Spectroscope
- Fig. 52
- 1872 (Published)
Illustration of a man looking through a spectroscope.
From the corresponding text: "Fig. 52, especially the three tubes directed to the prism at different angles, as in that constructed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The… -
Bunsen, Kirchhoff, and Roscoe
- 1862 (Creation)
- 1906 (Publication)
Photographic portrait of Robert W. Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Henry E. Roscoe. Roscoe explains in the work's text that the photograph was taken during a visit of Bunsen and Kirchhoff to Manchester while Roscoe was…
- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Printer Of Plates Walker, Emery, 1851-1933
- Publisher Macmillan Company
- Subject Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915, Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899, Kirchhoff, G. (Gustav), 1824-1887
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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
- 1891 (Creation)
- 1906 (Publication)
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was born March 30, 1811 in Göttingen and died August 16, 1899 in Heidelberg. He was a German inventor, chemist, and professor whose light studies created the field of spectrum analysis.
Sir Henry…
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Henry Enfield Roscoe
- 1906 (Publication)
A photographic portrait of Henry Enfield Roscoe writing at a desk at his home, Woodcote Lodge in 1906. The photograph was taken by a photographer from Elliot & Fry studio and printed by Emery Walker.
A photomechanical…- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Printer Of Plates Walker, Emery, 1851-1933
- Publisher Macmillan Company
- Subject Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
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The Life & Experiences of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe... Written by Himself
- 1906
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe lived from 1833 to 1915. He spent time studying under Robert Bunsen in Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1854. In 1857 Roscoe was appointed head of chemistry at Owens College, Manchester and held…
- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Publisher Macmillan Company
- Subject Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
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A Dream of Toasted Cheese
- 1899 (Creation)
- 1906 (Publication)
Whimsical illustration of mice in a laboratory with glassware, apparatus, and a Bunsen burner. Beatrix Potter was a niece of the author, Henry Roscoe, and created this illustration as a gift. The illustration is based…
- Artist Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943
- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Publisher Macmillan Company
- Subject Ammonia, Mice, Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
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Plate XXI: Seascape illustration
- 1685 (date of publication)
Engraved plate depicts a seascape with a wall structure in the foreground and buildings along the coast in the background. Birds dot the sky.
The most popular of William Salmon's numerous books, the title page refers…
- Author Salmon, William, 1644-1713
- Engraver Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698
- Publisher Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain
- Subject Art metal-work, Drawing--Technique, Salmon, William, 1644-1713, Painting--Technique, Art--Early works to 1800, Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698
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Plate XX: Landscape with bridge and ruins
- 1685 (date of publication)
Engraved plate depicts a bridge over a body of water leading to a castle ruins. Figures cross the bridge and birds dot the sky.
The most popular of William Salmon's numerous books, the title page refers to 25 plates…
- Author Salmon, William, 1644-1713
- Engraver Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698
- Publisher Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain
- Subject Art metal-work, Drawing--Technique, Salmon, William, 1644-1713, Portrait painting--Technique, Painting--Technique, Art--Early works to 1800, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698