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Plate 12: Rosa canina
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of common dog rose, Rosa canina. Class Icosandria, order Polygynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 11: Sempervivum tectorum
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. Class Dodecandria, order Dodecagynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Sempervivum, Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 10: Agrostemma githago
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of corn cockle, Agrostemma githago. Class Decandria, order Pentagynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Common corncockle, Botany, Agrostemma, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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21 items
Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates, Conversations on Botany is composed as a series of conversations between a mother and son about the principles of the Linnaean system of classification and elements of useful…
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422 items
Conversations on Chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates
- To which are added, some late discoveries on the subject of the fixed alkalies by H. Davy, Esq., of the Royal Society
- 1809
Conversations on Chemistry is an introductory chemical textbook. To this third American edition (the first and second: Philadelphia, 1806, and 1809), the anonymous editor has added new material on mineral waters and the…
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201 items
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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24 items
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie
- 1789
This work by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is widely considered the first of its kind in modern chemical literature. Select digitized content includes front cover, frontismatter, woodcut vignettes, as well as thirteen…
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Women working on the Beckman Digital Multimeter production line
- Undated
Multimeters are instruments capable of making multiple measurements, typically voltage, current, and resistance.
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Helipot Division: Production
- Undated
The production room at the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., where mostly women employees assemble potentiometers, dials, and other small devices.
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2 items
Einige Versuche an Metallkristalle
- Some Experiments on Metal Crystals
- Undated
A German translation of an experimental methodology written by Constance Fligg Elam Tipper (1891-1995), an English metallurgist and crystallographer. Elam was the first female full-time faculty member at the Cambridge…