Title etched above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A general history of the science and practice of music / by Sir John Hawkins in five volumes
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
From p. 27: [Tacquet's] words are these: 'An equilateral cone circumscribed about a sphere, and a right cylinder in like manner circumscribed about the same sphere, and the same sphere itself continue the same proportion ; to wit, the sesquialteral, as well as in respect of the solidity as of the whole superficies.
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from street address., Date derived from text below title., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pregnancy.
Publisher:
Printed by and for G. Smeeton, 15 Royal Arcade, Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Anomalies, Abnormalities, Human, Prenatal influences, Boys, Crying, and Human curiosities
Title etched on ribbon at top of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, cropping last digit from the date of publication., Last digit of date from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costumes., and Mounted to 31 x 40 cm.
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from item., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine., Published: Carlton House Magazine, March 1 1794., Copy after Samuel Collings. See Print00966., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
W. & J. Stratford
Subject (Topic):
Magnetic healing, Quacks and quackery, Flirting, Magnets, and Sick persons
Title from item., Published: George Smeeton, Biographia Curiosa, or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George the Third, London, J. Robins and Co., 1822., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., "Gisling" is a pseudonym of de Hooghe. Geneva may also be part of that pseudonym., Description from British Museum: A broadside satirising the developments in the Palatine War of Succession, the Glorious Revolution, and the Turkish War by likening the European leaders to (hypochondriac) patients being treated by a German doctor and other physicians; with an etching by de Hooghe showing in the centre a doctor holding a urine sample in his R hand, in his L a book, under his belt wearing paper slips with different (German) place names, on the left Louis XIV (no 2) attempting to draw his sword, but being stopped by William III (no.3), on the R the English Queen Mary in bed (no 8), attended by Father Petre (no 9), in the R foreground two women with the infant Prince James (no 10), on the left a priest with bells and a sword (James II?) on a chamber-pot assisted by another cleric, in the left background a madman let away by two Turks., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
William III, King of England, 1650-1702., James II, King of England, 1633-1701., Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715., Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694., and Petre, Edward, 1631-1699.
Subject (Topic):
Urine, Analysis, Hypochondria, Politics and government, Physicians, Kings, Queens, Sick persons, Soldiers, Arms & armament, Turbans, and Arches
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Sheet trimmed., In lower right corner: Déposé., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification)., Courtship, Marriage proposals, Death's head, Poor persons, Rich people, Money, and Harps
