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Oeuvres Physiologiques, Volume 2
- Traité des Sensations et des Passions en Général, et des Sens en Particulier, Ouvrage Divisé en Deux Parties.
- La Théorie de L'ouie
- 1767
The second of three volumes by Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768), a French surgeon, lithotomist, researcher, and science communicator. Volume two was originally published as the Traité des sens in Rouen in 1740,…
- Author Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas, 1700-1768
- Publisher Chez Vallat-La-Chapelle
- Engraver Bacheley, Jacques, 1712-1781
- Subject Senses and sensation, Sense organs, Physiology, Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas, 1700-1768, Vision, Hearing, Smell, Touch, Taste
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Nouvelle Chymie du goût et de l'odorat, ou, L'art de composer facilement et à peu de frais les liqueurs à boire et les eaux de senteurs
- L'art de composer facilement et à peu de frais les liqueurs à boire et les eaux de senteurs
- 1774
The third edition of a work concerning the operations of infusion, distillation, composition, and filtration used in the preparation of spirits, flavors, perfumes, and essential oils. The work also discusses the…
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L'art du Distillateur Liquoriste: Contenant le Bruleur d'Eaux-de-vie, le Fabriquant de Liqueurs, le Débitant ou le Cafetier-Limonnadier
- The Art of the Liqueur Distiller: Containing the Brandy Burner, the Liqueur Maker, the Bartender or the Lemonade Maker
- 1775
Part of a series published between 1761 and 1788 by the Parisian Académie des Sciences entitled Descriptions des arts et métiers, or Descriptions of the Arts and Trades. The full series comprises 113 folio volumes and…
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L'art du Distillateur d'Eaux-Fortes, &c.
- 1773
Part of a series published between 1761 and 1788 by the Parisian Académie des Sciences entitled Descriptions des arts et métiers, or Descriptions of the Arts and Trades. The full series comprises 113 folio volumes and…
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Künst Büch von allerhandt rahren undt schönen inventionen so wohl in der Feuerwerckerey Künst als auch in der Büchsenmeisterey zusammen
- 1671
A manuscript work from Andreas Räbeln, a 17th-century pyrotechnician, containing formulas and recipes for the creation of fireworks, explosives, rockets, detonators, flares, bombs, and other armament. The recipes call…
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Musaeum Metallicum in Libros IIII
- 1648
Volume 13 of the monumental Opera omnia (Bologna, 1599–1668) by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), professor of natural history at Bologna. Only the first four volumes of the Opera were published in his lifetime, and the…
- Author Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?
- Editor Ambrosini, Bartolommeo, 1588-1657
- Publisher Typis lo. Battista Ferronij
- Subject Geology, Natural history, Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Fossils, Archaeology
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Metallotheca : Opus Posthumum
- 1717
Although written in the sixteenth century, this first edition printing was edited and published by Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654–1720) in 1717. By as early as 1574, Mercati (1541–1593), director of the Vatican botanical…
- Author Mercati, Michele, 1541-1593
- Publisher Ex officina Jo: Mariae Salvioni
- Editor Lancisi, Giovanni Maria, 1654-1720
- Subject Minerals, Fossils, Shells, Mineralogy, Paleontology, Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590
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Elementa Chemiae : Quae Anniversario Labore Docuit, in Publicis, Privatisque Scholis, Volume 2
- The Elements of Chemistry : Which is Taught in Public and Private Schools
- 1732
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, and physician. Boerhaave introduced a quantitative approach to medical training and was the first to integrate chemistry into the medical curriculum; he is…
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Guilielmi Harvei doct. & profess. Regii Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis
- Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis
- An anatomical essay on the movement of the heart and blood
- 1648
William Harvey (1578-1657) was an English physician who discovered the circulation of the blood. He correctly described the motion of the heart as a contraction that forced blood out of the left ventricle into the…
- Author Harvey, William, 1578-1657
- Publisher Ex Officinâ Arnoldi Leers
- Contributor Sylvius, Zacharias, Back, Jacobus de, approximately 1594-1658
- Subject Blood--Circulation, Blood, Oxygen in the body, Heart, Cardiovascular system, Harvey, William, 1578-1657
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Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici : quorum primus agit de sal-nitro, et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalibus. Ultimus de rhachitide.
- Five Medical-Physical Treatises : the first of which deals with salt-nitro and spirit of nitro-air. The second on respiration. Third on the respiration of the fetus in the womb and the egg. Fourth on muscular motion and animal spirits. The last on rickets.
- 1674
John Mayow (1643–1679) was an early researcher of respiration and the nature of air. Mayow published tracts on respiration and rickets while studying at Oxford in 1668; in 1674 these were edited and reprinted with three…
- Author Mayow, John, 1641-1679
- Publisher E Theatro Sheldoniano
- Engraver Faithorne, William, 1616-1691
- Subject Physiology, Oxygen--Physiological transport, Oxygen in the body, Respiration, Cardiovascular system, Medicine, Muscles, Fetus--Development, Combustion, Oxygen
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Tractatus de Corde : item de motu et colore sanguinis, et chyli in eum transitu
- Treatise on the Heart : likewise, on the movement and color of the blood, and the passage of chyle into it
- 1669
Work on the anatomy and physiology of the circulatory system. Explores the structure and function of veins and arteries. Correctly describes the heart as a four-chambered organ and accurately describes the flow of the…
- Author Lower, Richard, 1631-1691
- Publisher Apud Danielem Elzevirium
- Subject Heart, Blood--Circulation, Blood, Cardiovascular system, Veins, Arteries, Medicine, Human anatomy
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Elementa Chemiae : Quae Anniversario Labore Docuit, in Publicis, Privatisque Scholis, Volume 1
- The Elements of Chemistry : Which is Taught in Public and Private Schools
- 1732
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, and physician. Boerhaave introduced a quantitative approach to medical training and was the first to integrate chemistry into the medical curriculum; he is…
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Theatrum Botanicum
- The Theater of Plants, or An Herball of a Large Extent
- 1640
Immense volume, consisting of 1,688 pages and approximately 3,800 plant descriptions. Theatricum Botanicum is the magnum opus of John Parkinson (1567-1650), an early English herbalist, apothecary, and botanist. It is…
- Author Parkinson, John, 1567-1650
- Printer Cotes, Thomas
- Engraver Marshall, William, active 1617-1650
- Subject Botany, Herbals, Medicinal plants, Botany, Medical, Herbs--Therapeutic use, Materia medica
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An Essay on Combustion : With a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting
- The Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are Proved Erroneous
- 1794
Elizabeth Fulhame was an early British chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction. Fulhame’s interest was in the reduction reaction that led to the deposition of metals. As she notes in…
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Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus
- quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio, verbo pantamorphon protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas et divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur.
- 1665
A first edition work, with two volumes bound in one folio, by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), a German Jesuit scholar who published many extensive works on scientific, religious, and other subjects. Dubbed the “Master…
- Author Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Publisher Janssonium, Joannem
- Contributor Elizeum, Weyerstraten
- Subject Alchemy, Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, Natural history, Mines and mineral resources, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hydrography, Earth sciences, Geochemistry, Volcanoes, Earth (Planet)
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Unheard-of Curiosities : Concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarkes, and the Reading of the Stars
- 1650
1650 English translation of Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismaniquedes Persans (Paris, 1629), by Jacques Gaffarel (1601–1681), a renowned cabalist and Hebrew and Asian studies scholar. Included in the work are…
- Author Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681
- Publisher Moseley, Humphrey, -1661
- Contributor Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654
- Subject Talismans, Astrology, Occultism, Magic, Curiosities and wonders, Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681
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A Voyage to South America, Volume 2
- 1758
Volume two of the first English translation of Relacion Historica del Viaje a la America Meridional (Madrid, 1743) by Antonio de Ulloa (1716 – 1795), containing a description of the greater part of South America, its…
- Author Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
- Publisher L. Davis and C. Reymers (London, England)
- Engraver Mynde, James
- Subject South America, Spanish colonies, Spain, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Mines and mineral resources, Metallurgy, Platinum
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A Voyage to South America, Volume 1
- 1758
Volume one of the first English translation of Relacion Historica del Viaje a la America Meridional (Madrid, 1743) by Antonio de Ulloa (1716 – 1795), containing a description of the greater part of South America, its…
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Le Petit Rosaire
- Extract on Alchemy from the Roman de la Rose (la Table de maistre Jehan de Meun)
- Circa 1600 – 1640
This is a seventeenth-century copy of a fifteenth-century translation and re-working of the Rosarius Philosophorum, one of the most important texts in the corpus of alchemical works that circulated under the name of…
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An Alchemist in His Study
- 1600s
A gray-bearded scholar in a red cap writes at his desk with a quill. Scattered in front of him are fabric-covered ceramic jars, a celestial globe, glass jars stoppered with twists, and a pipe. Illumination floods the…
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Magnes, sive de arte magnetica
- The Magnet, or about the magnetic art
- 1643
A second edition volume of Magnes (Cologne, 1643), by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), a German Jesuit scholar who published many extensive works on scientific, religious, and other subjects. Dubbed the “Master of a…
- Author Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Contributor Martini, Martino, 1614-1661
- Editor Kalckhoven, Jost, -1669
- Publisher Kalcoven, Jodocum
- Subject Magnetism, Electricity, Physics, Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, Electromagnetism, Phosphorescence, Religion and science, Transmutation (Chemistry), Alchemy, Luminescence
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Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam divisa
- 1617 – 1618
Two, first edition volumes bound together. Written by the English scientist, physician, alchemist, and Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd (1574–1637), this encyclopedic work is broadly themed upon the macrocosm and microcosm,…
- Author Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637
- Printer Galler, Hieronymus
- Engraver Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623, Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
- Subject Alchemy, Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637, Astrology, Cosmology, Arithmetic, Music theory, Rosicrucians
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Trois Traitez de la Philosophie Naturelle non Encore Imprimez
- Three Treaties of Natural Philosophy Not Yet in Print
- 1612
A collection of alchemical works containing the first appearance of the supposed biography of alchemist Nicholas Flamel (c. 1340-1418). Flamel was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. Flamel and his wife, Perrenelle…
- Contributor Arnauld, Pierre, sieur de la chevallerie, Flamel, Nicolas, -1418
- Publisher Marette, Guillaume
- Author Artephius, Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais
- Subject Flamel, Nicolas, -1418, Arnauld, Pierre, sieur de la chevallerie, Alchemy, Alchemists, Occultism, Occultists, Emblems, Symbolism
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Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides: Undertaken for the Purpose of Examining the State of the Arts, the Sciences, Natural History and Manners, in Great Britain, Vol. 2
- containing mineralogical descriptions of the country round Newcastle ; of the mountains of Derbyshire ; of the environs of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and St. Andrews ; of Inverary, and other parts of Argyleshire ; and of the cave of Fingal.
- 1799
Volume two of the first English translation of a work by French geologist Faujas-de-St.-Fond (1741-1819). The original French, Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse, et aux Îles Hébrides was published two years prior, in…
- Publisher Ridgway, James
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Subject Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819, Great Britain, Voyages and travels, Science, Scotland, Geology, Science--Study and teaching, Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924, Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820, Europe--British Isles, England, Cavallo, Tiberius, 1749-1809, Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815, Sheldon, John, 1752-1808, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, British Museum, England--Newcastle upon Tyne, Coal trade, Henry, Thomas, 1734-1816, Watt, James, 1736-1819, Priestly, Joseph, 1733-1804, Black, Joseph, 1728-1799, Wedgewood, Josiah, 1730-1795, Iron-works
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Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Solius Verae
- Amphitheatre of the Only True Eternal Wisdom
- 1609
Khunrath Heinrich's (1560-1605) Amphitheatrum Sapientiae, purportedly one of the most significant books of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences. Though the title page reads 1602, the book was not published until…
- Author Khunrath, Heinrich, 1560-1605
- Publisher Antonius, G.
- Subject Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Alchemy--Religious aspects, Christian art and symbolism, Occultism, Theosophy