540 matching record(s)
R (Stack)Anonymous
The Artisan or Mechanics Instructor: containing a popular comprehensive and systematic view of the sciences
Vols. I and II. London: Cadell & Davies, 1824. Presented by R. W. Sloley
[1948- ]
1824
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus"
extract from The Illustrated London News, September 16, 1876, pp. 269-70. (Full-page illustration on p. 269). (Re. the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1876
U Anonymous
Exposicion monografica de la Inventira Espanola
Madrid, October 1970.
[1970-105]
1970
E (Stack)Anonymous
Optics
Volume on Optics, containing: 1 Optical Instruments; 2 Optics; 3 Newton's Optics; 4 Double Refraction and Polarisation of Light; with an Explanation of Scientific Terms. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d]. Formerly the property of Thomas Cobb; Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Ernst Abbe (1840-1905); The Origin of a Great Optical Industry"
extract from Nature, no. 3664, January 20, 1940, pp. 89-91.
[1964-27]
1940
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Fredrick Accum, Operative Chemist: A Pioneer in the Campaign against Adulteration of Food and Drugs"
offprint from The Chemist and Druggist, vol. CXXVI no. 2994, Special Issue, June 26, 1937. 4 copies.
[Unknown]
1937
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Our Early Antiquarians. I. - Elias Ashmole"
extract from Walford's Antiquarian, vol. 9, 1886, pp. 51-54 (Part I) and pp. 99-105 (Part II; including bibliography). (By the editor of Walford's Antiquarian).
[1958-15]
1886
file R (Babbage)Anonymous
Review
of Charles Babbage, Reflexions on the Decline of Science in England, and some of its Causes (London, 1830); extract from The Quarterly Review, vol. XLIII no. LXXXVI, 1830, pp. 305-342.
[Unknown]
1830
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"The Writings of Roger Bacon"
extract from Nature, November 25, 1933, pp. 809-810.
[Unknown]
1933
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Roger Bacon"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, October 2, 1930, pp. 765-766.
[Unknown]
1930
R - pamphletsAnonymous
"Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.: President of the Royal Society from 1778 until 1820"
extract from Nature, vol. 122 no. 3082, November 24, 1928, pp. 815-816. Bound with other pamphlets and offprints in volume 'Misc. Tracts on Botany, &c.'.
[Unknown]
1928
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Lord Berkeley, scientist and mature student before his time"
in Lorna Fullard (ed.), The Oxford Research Unit (The Open University, 1994), pp. 34-35. Presented by Professor G. Elliott
[1996-136]
1994
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary: Professor J. D. Bernal: An outstanding physicist"
photocopy from The Times, September 16, 1971. (Re. John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971)).
[Unknown]
1971
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Funerailles de M. le Comte Berthollet
Published by the Institut Royal de France and the Academie Royale des Sciences. N.d. [c.1822]. (Re. Claude-Louis Berthollet).
[Unknown]
1822?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. I. J. Bienayme
{??} 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. P. H. Blanchet
Paris: Imprimerie de Bachelier, n.d. [c.1843].
[Unknown]
1843?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Note des travaux de M. Eug. Bouvard
N.d. [c.1846].
[Unknown]
1846?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice des travaux scientifiques de M. A. Bravais
Paris: Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Liste des travaux de M. Auguste Bravais
Paris: Felix Locquin, 1843.
[Unknown]
1843
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux de M. L. Breguet
Paris: Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1847.
[Unknown]
1847
file I (Stack)Anonymous
"Research Laboratory"
photocopy from The British Museum Society Bulletin, no. 5, November 1970, unpaginated (3 pages).
[Unknown]
1970
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux Scientifiques de M. Cagniard-Latour, ancien eleve de l'Ecole Polytechnique et de l'Ecole des Ingenieurs-Geographes
Also contains an address by Cagniard-Latour himself, dated Paris, February 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Funerailles de M. Charles
Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, 1823. (Re. Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles).
[Unknown]
1823
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Cecil Clutton"
extract from The Times, February 25, 1991. Obituary of Cecil Clutton (1909-1991). Presented by the Curator
[1991-53]
1991
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux de M. Combes, ingenieur en chef des mines, et Professeur a l'Ecole Royale des Mines
One copy of 8 pages, uncut. The other of 32 pages. {??}
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Experts at Sotheby's: George Daniels"
extract from Sotheby's European Newsletter, [no month/issue number], 1985, p. 11.
[Unknown]
1985
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur des principaux memoires publies par M. J. Decaisne
Paris: Paul Renouard, n.d. [after 1842]. 3 copies.
[Unknown]
1842?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Resume des travaux de physique de M. C. Despretz
Paris: Terzuolo, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Gunther 38Anonymous
Obituary
of Peter Dollond (1731-1820); extract from The European Magazine for August 1820 [vol. LXXVIII], with engraved portrait.
[Unknown]
1820
R - pamphletsAnonymous
"Death of Alderman Dr. G. C. Druce. A Great Loss to the City. Former Mayor and Sheriff, and a Famous Botanist"
extract from The Oxford Times, Friday, March 4, 1932. Obituary of George Claridge Druce (1850-1932). In volume 'Misc. Tracts on Botany, &c.'.
[Unknown]
1932
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Ebelmen
Paris: Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1854.
[Unknown]
1854
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Note sur les travaux astronomiques de H. Faye
Paris: Bachelier, 1847.
[Unknown]
1847
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux de M. H. Fizeau
Paris: Bachelier, 1850.
[Unknown]
1850
R - pamphletsAnonymous
"Mr. George Forrest"
extract from Nature, vol. 129 no. 3251, February 20, 1932, p. 270. Obituary of George Forrest (1873-1932). In volume 'Misc. Tracts on Botany, &c.'.
[Unknown]
1932
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux de M. Leon Foucault
Paris: Bachelier, 1850.
[Unknown]
1850
Q Anonymous
"Obituary notice: Dr William Francis"
{...}. 2 copies.
[1972-88]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 64 (10)Anonymous
"Brief Memoir of the late Thomas Galloway, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. F.R.A.S."
offprint from the Annual Report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 13, 1852, 4 pages. Together with a diagram on tracing paper showing the shape and wording of his tomb monument.
[1934-41]
1852
Radcliffe Tracts 64 (11)Anonymous
Obituary
of Thomas Galloway (1796-[1851]). Single sheet issued by the Royal Society, n.d. [1851].
[1934-41]
1851?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Jean Gimpel"
extract from The Daily Telegraph, June 17, 1996, p. 23. Obituary. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1996-93]
1996
Radcliffe Tracts 35 (7)Anonymous
Biographical Account of John Hadley, Esq., V.P.R.S., The Inventor of the Quadrant, and of his Brothers George and Henry
N.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice des travaux du docteur de Haldat, de Nancy
N.d. [after 1841]. 3 copies.
[Unknown]
1841?
Radcliffe Tracts 47 (7)Anonymous
An Account of the Going of Hardy's Chronometer, No. 278, in the Year 1814, at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford
n.p., n.d. [Oxford, ?1815]. 4 pages. (Re. chronometer made in 1811 by William Hardy).
[1934-41]
1815?
OLD PER Anonymous
Untitled
Short account of the life and writings of Felicia Hemans (nee Browne) in the preface to The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, vol. XXVIII, July-December 1836. [See entry under Mirror].
[Unknown]
1836
Q (Stack)Anonymous
The story of the Herschels : a family of astronomers : Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel
London : T. Nelson & Sons, 1889. University Observatory Collection.
[1968-174]
1889
Prints - PortraitsAnonymous
"Young Caroline Herschel"
extract from Sky & Telescope, August 1988, pp. 121-122. (Report about, and reproduction of, Lisa Joy Rosowsky's new - 1986 - portrait of her).
[1996-58]
1988
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Death of Sir William Herschel"
photocopy from The British Journal of Photography, November 2, 1917, p. 560. (Re. Sir William James Herschel). 2 copies. Presented by the Librarian, Royal Photographic Society, per Mrs A. S. Symonds
[1990-88]
1917
file OXF (Bowen)Anonymous
"Profile | Professor D. C. Hodgkin"
in Zenith: The Journal of the Oxford University Scientific Society, vol. II no. 2, Hilary 1965, pp. 2-3. (Nobel prize 1964; with portrait). Photocopy in file Q.
[1965-76]
1965
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Dorothy Hodgkin"
extract from The Daily Telegraph, August 1, 1994, p. 21. Obituary.
[1994-86]
1994
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Wheel Barometer of Hooke"
extract from The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1765, p. 272 and plate. (Letter to Mr. Urban [the editor]).
[Unknown]
1765
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice Biographique sur J.-B. Huzard
Paris: Mme Ve Huzard, 1839.
[Unknown]
1839
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"Appreciation of, and Catalogue of the Collection of, Courtenay Adrian Ilbert (1888-1956)"
in Pendulum to Atom - a Centenary Exhibition held at Goldsmiths Hall, Foster Lane, London E.C.2, from October 14 to 25, 1958. (Also contains catalogue of modern timepieces on display).
[1958-72]
1958
file W (Stack)Anonymous
Various titles {?}
Three extracts from The Horological Journal, July 1951, October 1953, and November 1953. (Re. Antide Janvier).
[1969-203/1-3]
1951-1953
file U (Stack)Anonymous
'Exhibition of the Work of W. Stanley Jevons - including his logical machine'
Typescript resume of his life, description of the exhibits, and offprint from The Manchester Guardian, Wednesday, October 15, 1952. [See also articles and typescripts by W. Mays & D. P. Henry].
[Unknown]
1952
MS Gunther 36-38Anonymous
Obituary
of (or biographical article about) Johnson Jex (died 1852), 'the learned blacksmith of Letheringsett'; extract/offprint{?} from an unidentified periodical, n.d. [?c.1852].
[Unknown]
1852?
MS Gabb 8Anonymous
"Mr Richard Kerr. F.G.S. F.R.A.S. | Science Lecturer to His Majesty's Prisons | His Striking Story of a New Elevating Power"
extract from Lloyd's Weekly News, January 28, 1912, p. 15. (Concerns Kerr's prison lectures, and includes picture of him lecturing at a bench with apparatus).
[1949- ]
1912
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: First woman president of British Association"
photocopy of offprint from The Times, April 2, 1971. Obituary of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971).
[Unknown]
1971
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Lu Gwei-Djen"
extract from The Times, December 3, 1991. Obituary. Presented by Dr C. H. Josten
[1991-203]
1991
LE pamphletAnonymous
A Brief Account of the Life, Writings and Inventions of Sir Samuel Morland
Cambridge: {...}, 1838. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1838
file F (Stack)Anonymous
"Early Photography Exhibition in Oxford"
extract from Astronomy Now, April 1989, p. 7. (Re. exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science). Presented by H. J. P. Arnold Esq.
[1989-112]
1989
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Supplement a la notice des travaux de M. de Pambour
(Sections XXI-XXIV, pp. 49-53). {...??}
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of F. A. Paneth ({...}); extract from The Times, n.d. [{...}].
[1964-95/5]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Karl Parker ({...}); extract from The Daily Telegraph, August 3, 1992, p. 17.
[1992-82]
1992
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux de M. Piobert
Paris: Printed by H. Fournier & Co., n.d. (Old boy of l'Ecole Polytechnique, and professor at l'Ecole d'application de l'artillerie et du genie).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice des travaux de M. J.-E. Planchon
{...} (Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Natural Science, and former Conservateur de l'hebier de Sir Willa).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice des Travaux Scientifiques de M. Pouillet
(Professeur a la Faculte des Sciences). And Notice sur les memoires presentes a l'Academie des Sciences par M. Pouillet (April 1829).
[Unknown]
1829
file N (Stack)Anonymous
"Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Arbeiten Julius Ruskas"
offprint from Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, heft 19 ("Julius Ruska und die Geschichte der Alchemie (70 Geburtstage)"), February 9, 1937, pp. 20-40. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1956-65]
1937
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary Notice of Sir Arthur Schuster, F.R.S."
{?}extract from Nature, October 20, 1934, pp. 595-596.
[Unknown]
1934
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary notice of Sir Arthur Schuster - a Mathematical Physicist"
{?}extract from The Times, Monday, October 15, 1934.
[Unknown]
1934
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Hans Krebs; extract from The Times, November 23, 1981.
[Unknown]
1981
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Lester Smith; extract from The Daily Telegraph, November 14, 1992. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1993-20]
1992
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Prof. Wilson Smith | The Influenza Virus"
extract from The Times, July 14, 1965. Obituary of Wilson Smith (1897-1965).
[Unknown]
1965
file G (Stack)Anonymous
The Origin, Progress and Present State of the Various Establishments for Conducting Chemical Processes, and other Medicinal Preparations, at Apothecaries Hall
London: Printed by R. Gilbert, 1823. Preface by The Committee of Managers of the United Stock of the Society of Apothecaries. Presented by A. C. Longland Esq., J.P.
[1964-217]
1823
MS Museum 121Anonymous
Obituary
of Frederick Soddy; extract from The Times, September 24, 1956.
[Unknown]
1956
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Sir Richard Southwell: Engineering at Oxford"
extract from The Times, December 12, 1970. Obituary of Sir Richard Vynne Southwell.
[Unknown]
1970
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Dr Robert Spence"
photocopy from The Times, March 12, 1976. Obituary of Robert Spence (1905-1976).
[Unknown]
1976
Q (Spencer)Anonymous
"Obituary Notice of M. H. Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911) (with Portrait and Bibliography)"
offprint from the Mineralogical Magazine, vol. XVI no. 74, October 1911, pp. 149-156. Bound with works by L. J. Spencer.
[Unknown]
1911
R - pamphletsAnonymous
"Obituary. Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. A Great Botanical Administrator"
extract from The Times, Thursday, December 27, 1928. Also obituary from Nature. In volume 'Misc. Tracts on Botany, &c.'.
[Unknown]
1928
Radcliffe Tracts 109 (5)Anonymous
Meteorological Journal, Torquay
1849-52. (October 1850 missing). n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
1849-1852
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Dame Janet Vaughan"
extract from Oxford Today, vol. 5 no. 3, Trinity 1993, p. 42. Obituary of Dame Janet Vaughan (1899-1993).
[Unknown]
1993
MS Museum 80Anonymous
Account of the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital
n.d. [after 1765]. Among the papers of John Soper Streeter
[Unknown]
1765?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur A. Quetelet, Correspondant de l'Academie Royale et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles
Bruxelles: M. Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale, 1844.
[Unknown]
1844
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Pusterich, fire-blower, or aeolipile; a bronze of the 12th century"
photocopy from Tin and its Uses, no. 78, 1968.
[1969-22]
1968
Radcliffe Tracts 5 (18)Anonymous
"On a Method of Cooling the Air of Rooms in Tropical Climates"
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
file N (Stack)Anonymous
Unknown title
[Work on alchemy written in Arabic]. Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 46 (28a)Anonymous
The False Horizon
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 46 (28b)Anonymous
Suggestions for a mode of bringing to England the Obelisk at Alexandria called Cleopatra's needle
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 46 (28c)Anonymous
Patent Breach for Guns
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 46 (28d)Anonymous
An unnoticed Key to the Campaign of 1813 and foreign Miscellany
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 46 (30)Anonymous
Trials of various Chronometers
London, [c.1816].
[1934-41]
1816?
Radcliffe Tracts 47 (21)Anonymous
Some Particulars relative to the Discovery of the Longitude; mentioning several Foreign Premiums, and exactly narrating the Particulars of the British Acts of Parliament, respecting that Affair. With a list of the present Commissioners, etc.
London: George Burnett, 1765.
[1934-41]
1765
Radcliffe Tracts 5 (22)Anonymous
"Observatory"
Article from Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 54 (23)Anonymous
Ueber Hohenrauch und ahnliche meteorologische Erscheinungen nebst Bemerkungen uber das Wesen der Atmosphare und deren Einfluss auf Leben und Gesundheit
Erlangen: Ferdinand Enke, 1847.
[1934-41]
1847
A (Stack)Anonymous
The English Chapmans and Traveller's Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1701. Wherein all the Post-Roads, with the several Branches and Distances, ... To which is added a Table of Accounts ready cast up, ... with a Sun-Dial and other Tables ... Also, the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon. ...
London, Printed by Tho. James for the Company of Stationers, 1701. Bound with William Andrews, News from the Stars, and other almanacs. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1701
A (Stack)Anonymous
L'oracle de ce Siecle. Consulte par les souverains de la terre. Ouvrage singulier sur les affaires critiques et politiques du tems.
A Londres, aux depens de la Compagnie. 1743. 8vo. Inscribed "E Bibl. Linn. 1784. J. e. Smith". Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1784
A (Stack)Anonymous
Astrologica, quorum titulos versa pagella indicabit. H. Eob. Hessi. Simemoratur Atlas caelum sudasse ferendo, si tulit Herculeus sidera fessa labor si flammas rapuit Jouis alta ex arce Prometheus, si Lunam superis abstulit Endymion: te quoque posteritas credet Joachime suisse Caelestes solitum scandere Saepe domos. Qui tanquam astrifero sis nuper ab aethere lapsus, astra, gradus, orbes, lumina, signa doces. Cum tam pulchra novae potuisti tradere luci scripta palam nullo tempore visa prius
Norimbergae apud Io. Petreium, Anno 1532. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.13).
[1962-65/ ]
1532
B (Stack)Anonymous
The Handbook of Turning: containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various Plates of Chucks, Tools, & Instruments; and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them
London: Saunders & Otley, 1842.
[Unknown]
1842
CATA Anonymous
"Lufkin's History: Fledgling Lumber Industry Inspired Lufkin Instruments"
reprint from Cooper Canada Newsletter, vol. 4 no. 4, Fall, 1982 (and there condensed from 1833-1977: An American History of Cooper Industries). Reprint published by Ken Roberts Publishing Co. as single sheet and inserted loosely into Lufkin Rule Co., Lufkin Measuring Instruments ... .
[Unknown]
1982
CS - LeonardoAnonymous
"On View in the Quincentenary Exhibition: Machines Devised by Leonardo da Vinci"
extract from The Illustrated London News, March 29, 1952, pp. 552-553. From Henri Michel's papers
[Unknown]
1952
D (Stack)Anonymous
"Copernicus as Economist, Statesman, and Poet"
in Polish Science and Learning, no. 3, June 1943, p. 58. Shelved under Polish.
[Unknown]
1943
D (Stack)Anonymous
London. VIII. Observations on Observatories in London and its Vicinity. Observatories and Astronomical instruments in use at Cambridge and Oxford.
Separate issue or offprint of pp. 629-700 only. London: John Weale, 1852. [{?By Charles Knight}].
[Unknown]
1852
D (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
"Astronomy"
extract from an unknown encyclopedia. In envelope with "Astrology".
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
"Astrology"
extract from an unknown encyclopedia. In envelope with "Astronomy".
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
D (Stack)Anonymous
Die Hamburger Sternwarte in Bergedorfe erbaut 1906-1912
Hamburg: Druckerei-Gesellschaft Hartung & Co., July 6, 1912. (Volume of photographs of the Hamburg Observatory).
[Unknown]
1912
D (Stack)Anonymous
Probae Falconiae, vatis Clarissimae A Divo Hieronymo comprobatae Centones, de fidei nostrae mysterijs e Maronis carminibus excerptum Opusculum
Parisiis Apud Franciscum Stephanum. 1543. Bound with Anon., Elementale Cosmographicum ... . University Observatory Collection
[1982-92]
1543
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Almanac for the year 1386
Transcribed, verbatim, from the original Antique Illuminated Manuscript, in the black letter. Omitting only the monthly calendars and some of the tables. Containing many curious particulars, illustrative of the astronomy, astrology, chronology, history, religious tenets, and theory and practice of Medicine of that age. Printed for the Proprietor, By C. Stower Hackney. 1812. ?Lewis Evans Collection
[1924- ]
1812
E (Stack)Anonymous
"The terminology of illumination and vision"
(second edition, revised), Technical Paper no. 1 on Illumination Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. London, H.M.S.O., 1935.
[1972-113]
1935
E Anonymous
The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy
Two volumes, 1898 and 1900. London.
[1966-296 & 297]
1898-1900
E (Open Shelf - oversize)Anonymous
Milestones in Optical History
Rochester, U.S.A.: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 1959.
[1964-53]
1959
E Anonymous
"On the Microscope"
in Readings in Science, pp. 361-388 (1833 edition), and pp. 351-375 (1839 [3rd] edition).
[Unknown]
1833-1839
E (Stack)Anonymous
The Companion to the Microscope
With full Directions for Preparing the Vegetable Infusions to Produce Animalcules; with a Catalogue of all the principal Objects and the best method of procuring them ... With a Description of C. Gould's Improved Pocket Compound Microscope, etc. Fifth Edition. London: W. Cary, 1829. Photocopy.
[1978-865]
1829
F (Open Shelf)Anonymous
Amateur Photography: A Practical Handbook for the Amateur
With a Foreword by Percy W. Harris. London: George Newnes, 1935.
[1986-145]
1935
file CATA (Martin)Anonymous
"Old English Instruments: An Historical Catalogue"
photocopy from Sands, Clays and Minerals, April 1938, pp. 204-205. Reproduces Benjamin Martin, A Catalogue of Philosophical, Optical, and Mathematical Instruments Manufactured and Sold by Benjamin Martin, At his Shop, the Sign of Hadley's Quadrant and Visual-Glasses, near Crane-Court, in Fleet-Street, 1768 [as in Radcliffe Tracts 49 (11)]. [Filed under Martin].
[Unknown]
1938
file D (Denning)Anonymous
"A Six-Ton Meteorite: Interesting Phenomenon on N. W. Frontier"
extract from the Observer, n.d. [?c.1906]. (Inserted in Miss C. O. Stevens's copy of W. F. Denning's paper "The Radiant Point of the April Meteors (Lyrids)").
[1964-264/5]
1906?
file E - eye glassesAnonymous
Contact Lenses and You
n.p., n.d. [c.1960]. (Folder containing 8-page leaflet headed 'Contact Lenses help most people in all walks of life').
[Unknown]
1960?
file E - eye glassesAnonymous
"Galileo Galilei 1564-1642"
in The Ophthalmic Optician, vol. 4 no. 5, March 7, 1964 (Northern Optical Congress and Galileo Quarter-Centenary Number), p. 223.
[Unknown]
1964
file E (Stack)Anonymous
"Les Tresors du Roi des Opticiens"
photocopy from Regards (house magazine of Essilor), no. 39, printemps 1993, pp. 16-17. (Concerns the collection and museum of Monsieur Pierre Marly). Presented by Pierre Marly
[1998-49/3]
1993
file E (Varley)Anonymous
"The Microscope"
Translated from "Aus der Natur, etc.," Leipzig, 1858, for the Smithsonian Institution, by C. A. Alexander; extract from [?Journal of the Smithsonian Institution], n.d. [c.1858], pp. 344-354. Bound with Varley, Graphic Telescope; Varley, On Eye-pieces for Telescopes and Microscopes; Foster, Report on Modern Microscopes. Filed under Varley, C. R. T. Gunther Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1858?
file E (Stack)Anonymous
Description of the New Improved Lucernal Microscope
(with instructions for its use, and list of objects best suited to be viewed by it). Manufacturer unknown (engraving credits incomplete).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file E (Stack)Anonymous
Le Micro-Telescope et Le Super-Microscope Brevete
Anvers: n.d. [c.1920].
[1978-500]
1920?
file E (Stack)Anonymous
"A Microscope Fit for a King Presented to the Science Museum by H. M. The King: the Second of Two Silver Microscopes Made for George III. and The Prince of Wales by George Adams, Author of "Micrographia Illustrata""
extract from The Illustrated London News, September 3, 1949, p. 337.
[Unknown]
1949
file E (Stack)Anonymous
Camera Obscuras: A Short History
The Edinburgh Camera Obscura. Carrbridge, Inverness-shire: Published by Landmark Press, 1988. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1989-83]
1988
file F (Stack)Anonymous
Lumiere Light
An Exhibition by The National Museum of Photography Film and Television in association with the South Bank Centre. Bradford: National Museum of Photography Film and Television, 1989. (Single-sheet, fold-out leaflet).
[1989-103]
1989
file F (Stack)Anonymous
The Calotype Process
n.p.: Bath Academy of Art [?], n.d. [Purchased at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock].
[1985-184]
[n.d.]
file G (Stack)Anonymous
"From a Taddygaddy I"
extract from The Lancet, April 3, 1937, pp. 835-836.
[Unknown]
1937
file G (Stack)Anonymous
"Materia Medica Collections in Oxford: Treasures in the Old Ashmolean"
offprint from The Chemist and Druggist, Special Issue, vol. CXXVI no. 2994, June 26, 1937, separately paginated (3 pages). (Concerns the Dyer, Pointer, and Clutton alias Oglander Collections in the Museum of the History of Science; and includes a picture of R. T. Gunther). Also photocopy.
[Unknown]
1937
file G (Stack)Anonymous
"An Oxford Centenary"
offprint from The Chemist and Druggist, May 4, 1935.
[Unknown]
1935
file G (Stack)Anonymous
The Improved Magneto-Electric Machine, for nervous Diseases
Pawson and Brailsford, Printers Sheffield. n.d. Accompanies machine in Museum collection.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file G (Stack)Anonymous
Acupuncture Anaesthesia
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1979-244]
1972
file G (Stack)Anonymous
"Honoured Weapons of Science: Exhibits of Historic Interest and Importance to be Seen at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford"
photocopy from The Chemist and Druggist, vol. 161, June 26, 1954, pp. 666-669. (Concerns medical and pharmaceutical items only).
[Unknown]
1954
file G (Stack)Anonymous
"A Physician's Collection of Pharmacy Jars"
offprint from The Chemist and Druggist, October 5, 1935. 4 pages.
[Unknown]
1935
file H (Stack)Anonymous
Geology Serves the Nation: 150 years of the British Geological Survey
n.p.: 1985. Leaflet accompanying the travelling exhibition 'Geology Serves the Nation', 1985-6.
[1985-115]
1985
file H (Stack)Anonymous
Geological Thermometer: Shewing the Opinions attributed to various Geologists with respect to the Origin of Rocks
Oxford: Printed by Munday and Slatter, n.d. [c.1825]. Formerly the property of W. S[imcox] B[ricknell]
[Unknown]
1825?
file H (Stack)Anonymous
How to Recognize Meteorites
UCLA Collection of Meteorites. (Leaflet). [Los Angeles: UCLA Collection of Meteorites, c.1985].
[1985-211]
1985?
file I (Stack)Anonymous
"The German Museum of Science and Technology"
extract from Nature, vol. 115 no. 2895, April 25, 1925, pp. 611-612.
[Unknown]
1925
file X - Royal SocietyAnonymous
"The Royal Society" [&] "Sir John Hill, with the Royal Society, Fielding, Smart, etc."
extract from Quarrels of Authors [author and publication details unknown], pp. 336-361 and pp. 362-368. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
file K (Stack)Anonymous
Untitled
Photocopied typescript of a paper given at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1984. Presented by Dr G.L'E. Turner
[1984-348/2]
1984
file N (Stack)Anonymous
"The Platinum Metals Exhibition. (19/x/53)"
extract from The Illustrated London News, October 17, 1953, p. 609. (Pictures of early platinum articles, with portrait of and note on William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) ).
[Unknown]
1953
file N (Stack)Anonymous
An Investigation of Liquid and Solid Bituminous Materials as Extenders for Rubber
Ministry of Supply Circular no. G. 3, January 1945. Presented by Dr R. E. W. Maddison
[1978-542]
1945
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
"The Oxford Museum of the History of Science"
extract from Oxfordshire Roundabout, vol. 1 no. 1, June 1965, pp. 17-20. [In the series] Science in Oxfordshire. (Based on the writings of C. H. Josten). [Original journal in OXF section].
[1980-22]
1965
file OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"Blind Man's Passion for Telephones Saves Money"
extract from The Oxford Times, November 21, 1980, p. 9. (Re. A. J. Croft and Oxford University's internal telephone system, with portrait of Croft).
[Unknown]
1980
file OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"Oxford in 1820 | Parson Skinner's Holiday | The Laboratory at Christ Church"
photocopy of cutting from [?The Times, or perhaps The Oxford Times], n.d., pp. 13-14. [The laboratory mentioned may possibly be that in the Old Ashmolean]. Copied from a cutting in the Gunther Archive.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"New Wave of Building at Oxford: Science Laboratories in Form of Cotswold Manors a Lost Cause"
photocopy of cutting from The Times, October 23, 1959. Original cutting in MS Stapleton 297.
[Unknown]
1959
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
"Early Science in Oxford; The Merton School of Astronomy; The Evans Collection of Scientific Instruments"
offprint from The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. XXXIII no. 9, 1922-1923. 3 pages. (Consists of three notes referring to Gunther's book and related matters).
[Unknown]
1922-1923
file Q - multipleAnonymous
An Abstract or Brief Declaration of the present state of his Majesties Revenew ...
London, 1651. Photocopy.
[1966-327]
1651
file Q (Humboldt)Anonymous
Review
of two books about Alexander von Humboldt; offprint from Zeitschrift fur Meteorologie, band 15 heft 9, September 1961, 2 pages.
[1964- ]
1961
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. F. de la Provostaye
(Inspecteur generl. de l'Institut foblign [corrected from 'Inspecteur de l'Academie de la Seine]).{?} Paris: Bachelier, 1850.
[Unknown]
1850
file Q (Callan)Anonymous
Forgotten Genius
N.p., n.d. [c.1985]. (Leaflet about Nicholas Joseph Callan, distributed at a conference in Dublin).
[1985-223]
1985?
file Q (Herschel)Anonymous
"Astronomy: Discoverer of Uranus"
extract from The Times, Friday, March 13, 1981. Science Report. (Re. William Herschel).
[Unknown]
1981
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary | Professor George de Hevesy Nobel prize for chemistry"
extract from The Times, July 7, 1966. Obituary of George de Hevesy (1863-1943).
[Unknown]
1966
file Q (Linnaeus)Anonymous
"One Man's Work for Us All: The Man who Named the Plants and Animals. - The Life-Story of Carl Linnaeus"
extract from My Magazine, n.d. [c.1920], pp. 400-408.
[1940- ]
1920?
file Q (Volta)Anonymous
"Laplace - to mark the centenary of his death"
extract from Nature, vol. 119 no. 2992, March 5, 1927. [Filed under Volta].
[Unknown]
1927
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Alex Volta - to mark the centenary of his death"
extract from Nature, vol. 119 no. 2992, March 5, 1927. [See also Laplace].
[Unknown]
1927
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Johann Kepler, 1571-1630"
extract from Nature, September 20, 1930, pp. 439-440.
[Unknown]
1930
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Marcello Malpighi (1628-94)"
extract from Nature, vol. 121 no. 3,045, March 10, 1928, p. 358.
[Unknown]
1928
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Harvey's Influence in Edinburgh"
extract from The British Medical Journal, December 4, 1926, pp. 1061-1062. (Editorial article, related to the address by Sir Robert Philip and Edinburgh Harveian Society's Harveian Festival).
[Unknown]
1926
file Q (Harvey)Anonymous
"Old Edinburgh and the Beginning of the Edinburgh Medical School"
extract from The British Medical Journal, December 4, 1926, pp. 1067-1070. (The first of a series of articles in connection with the forthcoming 95th annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Edinburgh, 1927). [Filed under Harvey].
[Unknown]
1926
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Student Catches Newton in an Error"
extract from the New York Times, June 11, 1987. Presented by Dr C. H. Josten
[1987-121/2]
1987
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Inventor of Phrenology: The Bicentenary of Dr Gall, who Related Character to Skull"
extract from The Times, Tuesday, March 4, 1958.
[Unknown]
1958
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"The Bicentenary of Joseph Black"
photocopy from Nature, vol. 122 no. 3063, July 14, 1928, pp. 59-60. Copied from a cutting in the Gunther Archive.
[Unknown]
1928
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, 1326-1335"
photocopy from The Horological Journal, January 1927, pp. 91-92. (Report of the 600th anniversary celebrations on November 27, 1926, including R. T. Gunther's contributions). 2 copies.
[1990-67]
1926
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Sir William Petty"
photocopy from The Times Literary Supplement, November 10, 1927. Review of The Petty Papers. Copied from a cutting in the Gunther Archive.
[Unknown]
1927
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Lieutenant Commander Derek Howse"
photocopy from The Daily Telegraph, August 8, 1998. Obituary.
[1998-150/2]
1998
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Robert Hooke Born July 18, 1635"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, no. 1,746, July 18, 1935, pp. 453-454. Review of Henry W. Robinson & Walter Adams (eds.), The Diary of Robert Hooke, F.R.S., 1672-1680.
[Unknown]
1935
file Q (Oldenburg)Anonymous
"Secretary for Science"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, July 28, 1966. Review of The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, edited and translated by A. Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall ({...}).
[Unknown]
1966
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Haeckel's Love Letters: An Intimate Portrait"
extract from The Times, September 26, 1930. Review of The Love Letters of Ernst Haeckel.
[Unknown]
1930
file R (Unesco)Anonymous
"Putting the 'S' in Unesco"
photocopy from The Courier (UNESCO), 38th year, October 1985, pp. 21-23. Presented by Mrs F. R. Maddison
[1985-232]
1985
SYLL Anonymous
A Course of Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments, to be Perform'd at the Observatory in Trinity-College
Cambridge: Printed by Corn. Crownfield, Printer to the University, 1720. Folio. (Syllabus). Presented by John Johnson, January 5, 1932
[1932-75]
1720
file S (Stack)Anonymous
"The Electric Telegraph"
extract from The Quarterly Review, 1854, pp. 118-164 (Article V). Review of 8 works on telegraphy.
[Unknown]
1854
file S (Stack)Anonymous
"Acoustics as they Affect the Musician"
extract from The Times [?], n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file S (Stack)Anonymous
No. 125. Projection Arc Lamp
Instructions for Lamp no. 2003 adjusted for 4.5 amperes and 230 volts. Direct current. (12 instructions).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file T (Stack)Anonymous
"Logarithms de Luxe"
photocopy from Nature, vol. 115 no. 2882, January 24, 1925, pp. 111-112. Review of A. J. Thompson, Logarithmetica Britannica ... (Cambridge, 1924) (referring in particular to Henry Briggs). Copied from a cutting in the Gunther Archive.
[Unknown]
1925
file U - metrologyAnonymous
"A Scale of Values"
extract from Wiggin Nickel Alloys, no. 74, n.d. [probably 1963].
[Unknown]
1963?
file U - metrologyAnonymous
"Museum fur Waage und Gewicht: Zollemschloss Balingen"
offprint from Stille Museen, ein Fuhrer zu Spezialsammlungen und Fachmuseen (Munchen, n.d.), unpaginated. [c.1980]. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1993-85]
1980?
file I (Stack)Anonymous
"The New Science Museum"
in Nature, vol. 121 no. 3047, March 24, 1928, pp. 458-460. Photocopy in file I.
[Unknown]
1928
file U (Description)Anonymous
"A Machine for grinding Lenses spherically"
extract from the Universal Magazine for December 1751, p. 248 and plate (fig. 2). Follows on from "A Description of the Fire-Engine".
[Unknown]
1751
file U (Hadley)Anonymous
A Description and Use of Hadley's Quadrant, For taking the Latitude or other Altitudes at Sea
Disbound pamphlet without title page, consisting of pp. 1-24, signatures A-C + one blank leaf at end. (A broken cover bearing fragments of an early printed Greek New Testament may belong to this pamphlet).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file U (Hadley)Anonymous
Instructions at Large, For the Use of Hadley's Quadrant: Wherein are contained the Principles on which that most ingeniously contrived, and useful Instrument is constructed; Together with a Description and Use of Vernier's, erroneously called Nonius's Divisions
London: Printed for S. Crowder & Co. ... and for John Robinson ..., 1762. Pamphlet in original covers; leaf at front advertising other books published by Crowder & Robinson. Presented by Oriel College, 1934
[1934-44]
1762
file U (Old Glasgow Museum)Anonymous
Fulton's Orrery
Old Glasgow Museum. Glasgow: Published by the Museums & Art Galleries Department, 1967. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1984-131]
1967
file U (Villette)Anonymous
A Description Of the Great Burning-Glass Made by Mr. Villette and his Two Sons, Born at Lyons. With some Remarks upon the surprising and wonderful Effects thereof
London: Printed for W. Lewis ..., 1719. Photocopy. Presented by the Curator
[1986-46]
1719
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Vergessene Schatze des Mittelalters: In Frankfurt entsteht der erste Gesamtkatalog mittelalterlicher astronomischer Instrumente"
in Forschung Frankfurt (Wissenschaftsmagazin der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main), jahrgang 11 no. 4, 1993, pp. 2-13 and illustration p. 1. (Account of Professor David King's work). Presented by Professor David King
[1995-68]
1993
file U (Stack)Anonymous
Waterworks in the Athenian Agora
American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Princeton, New Jersey: {...}, 1968.
[Unknown]
1968
file U (Stack)Anonymous
Instructions for the Engineer's Improved Sliding Rule, with a description of the several lines upon it, and directions how to find any number thereon. Together with the application of those lines to multiplication, division, the rule of three, etc. The mensuration of superfices and solids is likewise made perfectly easy, it is also particularly useful in weighing all kinds of metals and other bodies: to which are added the gauge points for the imperial measures Which are established by Parliament throughout the Kingdom
Birmingham: Radnall Printer, Bookseller, etc., 1845.
[Unknown]
1845
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Art in Scientific Instruments"
extract from The Times, March 3, 1962, p. 11. (Concerns the Billmeir Collection and the Findlay sale).
[Unknown]
1962
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Music by Machine"
extract from Yesterday's World, no. 2, November/December 1989, pp. 34-35. (Re. the Musical Museum, Brentford). Presented by the publisher
[1990-41]
1989
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Une Machine a ecrire dans la main"
extract from an unidentified periodical, n.d. [c.1966], p. 701.
[Unknown]
1966?
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Optical Planetarium at Munich"
extract from Nature, vol. 114 no. 2878, December 27, 1924, pp. 937-938.
[Unknown]
1924
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Gas Light Apparatus"
extract from The Monthly Magazine, vol. 39 no. 6 (no. 263), January 1, 1815, pp. 491-492. Mentions Messrs. Grant, Hargraves, & Knight as makers.
[Unknown]
1815
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"English ormolu mounts : a neglected 18th century art"
"from a collector" Offprint from: The Times, Saturday January 24 1959, p. 9.
[Unknown]
1959
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"A Description of the Fire-Engine" [and] "A Machine for grinding Lenses spherically"
extract from the Universal Magazine for December 1751, p. 248 and plate (figs. 1 and 2).
[Unknown]
1751
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Description of a Machine to escape from Fire, invented by Mr. Joachim Smith, for which he has obtained his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent"
extract from Town & Country Magazine, 1774, p. 80 and plate. (Mentions Messrs. Mayhew & Ince as suppliers).
[Unknown]
1774
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Dejiny Prirodnich Ved a Techniky"
extract from Vedecka Kniha, no. 5, 1958, pp. 10-11.
[Unknown]
1958
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Henry VIII at Greenwich"
in Horological Journal, vol. 134 no. 1, July 1991, pp. 17-19 and back cover. (Review of an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, and illustrations of clocks and sundials, mostly from the MHS). Presented by the publisher
[1991-109]
1991
file U (Stack)Anonymous
A Description of the Double Barrel Air-Pump, with the Apparatus for Making the Different Experiments, as Represented in the Plate
London: Printed by M. and S. Brooke, n.d. [c.1801]. (Annotated in an early 19th-century hand). Presented by Dr John Johnson, 1933
[1933- ]
1801?
file U (Stack)Anonymous
Instructions for the Calculating Slide Rule
Made in five sizes 5" 8" 10" 15" 20" and a new 5" pocket rule 1/4" thick with comparative scale inches & centimeter on back. n.p., n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file U (Chapin)Anonymous
Review
of Harrold E. Gillingham, Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers; extract from Antiques: A Monthly Magazine, November 1927, p. 406. (Filed under Chapin, Howard M.).
[Unknown]
1927
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Oldest Watch in the World"
photocopy from Friends of Canterbury Cathedral Thirteenth Annual Report, January 1940, pp. 45-47 and plate.
[Unknown]
1940
file U (Stack)Anonymous
A Description of the Double Barrel Air-Pump, with the Apparatus for making the different experiments, as represented in the plate
Printed by M. and S. Brooke, Paternoster-Row, London. n.d. (watermark 1801). Presented by John Johnson, 1933
[1933- ]
1801?
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Pusterich, fire-blower, or aeolipile; a bronze of the 12th century"
photocopy from Tin and its Uses, no. 78, 1968.
[1969-22]
1968
file V (Stack)Anonymous
"The Future of Flying"
extract from The Sketch, September 5, 1894, p. 307. (Re. the experiments of Hiram S. Maxim).
[Unknown]
1894
file W (Stack)Anonymous
'Clockmakers of Dumfries & Galloway'
Duplicated typescript of 4 leaves. N.d.
[1984-334]
[n.d.]
file W (Stack)Anonymous
The Medieval Clock of Salisbury Cathedral
(The clock that has ticked over 500,000,000 times). Printed at the "Times" Office, Dews Road, Salisbury, n.d. Leaflet (4 pages).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"La huitieme merveille du monde: L'horloge astronomique de l'inventeur lierrois Louis Zimmer"
extract from Le Matin, April 21, n.d., p. 3.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"Ten Years Without Winding. Features of the Latest Electric Timepiece"
photocopy from The Horological Journal, August 1922, pp. 230-231. (Report on an electric clock, 'the Bulle Clock', invented by Montain & Tavrebulle).
[1990-66]
1922
file X - Royal SocietyAnonymous
"Observables upon a Monstrous Head"
in Philosophical Transactions, Numb. 5, July 3, 1665, pp. 85-86 and fold-out plate. Charles Singer's copy. Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
[1991-139]
1665
file Y (Stack)Anonymous
"The Finest Extant Elizabethan Scientific Instrument"
extract from The Illustrated London News, August 14, 1926, p. 293.
[Unknown]
1926
file Y (Stack)Anonymous
"The Astrolabe: What and Why"
photocopy from The Pulse: Trade Journal of Computing Devices of Canada Ltd., vol. 6 no. 4, December 1962, p. 5. 2 copies.
[1963-108]
1962
file Y (Stack)Anonymous
"Mariner's Astrolabe: A Recent Scottish Find"
offprint from The Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. 72 no. 1, 1956, p. 24 and plate. (Editorially compiled from information of J. D. Boyd and D. J. Price; instrument at the Dudhope Museum, Dundee).
[1984-132]
1956
G (Merrett)Anonymous
Propositions Concerning Optic-Glasses, With their natural Reasons, drawn from Experiments
Oxford: At the Theater, 1679. (Large vignette of Sheldonian Theatre). In volume 'Tracts. Medecine Nat. Hist.'. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.9.4)
[1962-65/ ]
1679
R - pamphletsAnonymous
Propositions Concerning Optic-Glasses, With their natural Reasons, drawn from Experiments
Oxford, At the Theater. Ann. Dom. M. DC. LXXIX [1679]. Bound with Christopher Merrett, A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries, and other pamphlets, in volume 'Tracts. Medecine Nat. Hist.'. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.9.4)
[1962-65/ ]
1679
G (Stack)Anonymous
Exposures of Quackery
Being a series of articles upon, and analyses of, various patent medicines. By the Editor of "Health News." Two volumes. London: The Savoy Press, Ltd., [1896]. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1896?
G (Stack)Anonymous
"Artificial Flight"
extract from Science Progress, new series vol. I, 1897, pp. 531-552 (incomplete - last page, with author's name, not present). Bound with other pamphlets in volume 'Physiology. I.'.
[Unknown]
1897
G (Stack)Anonymous
A Treatise concerning the Plague and the Pox, Discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious Contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them
London. Printed by Gartrude Dawson, 1652. Bound with Anon., A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.5.18)
[1962-65/ ]
1652
G (Stack)Anonymous
A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets, collected by the Elaborate paines of four severall Students in Physick, and digested together: viz. The Childbearers Cabinet. A Preservative against the Plague and small Pox. Physicall Experiments presented to our late Queen Elizabeths own hands. With certain approved Medicines, taken out of a Manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English Abbies, and supplied with some of his own Experiments, by a late English Doctor
London. Printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by William Nealand, at the Crown in Duck-Lane. 1652. 4vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.5.18)
[1962-65/ ]
1652
G (Stack)Anonymous
Novae Hypotheseos de pulmonum motu, et respirationis usu specimen
Lugduni Batavorum, ex Officina Felicis Lopez. 1671. Bound with David Abercromby, De Variatione, ac Varietate Pulsus Observationes. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.3.2).
[1962-65/ ]
1671
G (Stack)Anonymous
Untitled
Single untitled sheet containing diagrams of crystals. Bound with other pamphlets in volume 'Physiology. I.'.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
G (Stack)Anonymous
Sanitary Economy: its principles and practice; and its moral influence on the progress of Civilisation
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1850.
[1941- ]
1850
I Anonymous
Vystava co dala technika svetu (od minulosti k pritomnosti)
Brno: {...}, 1954.
[1966-263]
1954
I (Stack)Anonymous
Magyar Muszaki Muqeumok Evkonyve 1964
Budapest, 1964.
[1973-44]
1964
J (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
"The Influence of the New Picture of the Earth upon Copernicus"
from the IVth International Conference on the History of Cartography, Edinburgh, 21-24 September, 1971. (In blue envelope under "Cartography").
[1972-42/B]
1971
file J (Stack)Anonymous
"The first copper-plate maps"
extract from the Geographical Journal, vol. C no. 5, 6, 1942. Review of E. Lynam, The first engraved map of the world, the Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemaeus, Bologna, 1477 (Jenkintown, 1941).
[Unknown]
1942
LE Anonymous
Directions for Fixing Homan's Solar Clock to a Pedestal or other Level Support
Single printed sheet. N.p., n.d. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
LE Anonymous
Kurze und Deutliche Anweisung die Uhren nach der wahren Sonnenzeit mit hulfe eines Sextanten und der dazu nothigen Sonnenhohe Tafeln genau zu richten und zu reguliren
Alois Willibald, Donaueschingen. 1830. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1830
LE Anonymous
Dechiaratione Delle Parti Del Quadrante, Con L'Uso Di Quelle, et Della Scala Altimetra
Appresso Domenico, & Gio. Battista Guerra, fratelli. In Venetia, 1563. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1563
LE Anonymous
Kurze doch grundliche Unweisung zu Bersertigung der sowohl liegenden als aufrechten Sonnen Uhren. Worinnen die allerleichteste Weiss, wie ein jeder dergleichen ohne Lehrmeister etc.
Bound at the back of Richtiger und vermehrter Feld-Messer ... . Ulm: J. C. Wohler, 1762. Shelved under Anonymous, Richtiger und vermehrter……. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1762
LE pamphletAnonymous
Price List of Sun-Dials, &c.
N.p., n.d. [early 20th century]. Catalogue, name of firm not given [Francis Barker & Son, Clerkenwell]. (Cover title: 'Sun-dials & Pedestals'). Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
19--?
LE Anonymous
Astronomia Teutsch. Himmels Lauff, Wirckung unnd Naturliche Influenz der Planeten unnd Gestirn, Auss... Mit sampt Astronomischer unnd Mathematischer Instrument als Astrolabien, Quadranten, etc. …
Getruckt zu Franckfort, Bey Christ. Egen. Erben. 1583. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1583
LE Anonymous
Manuale Horographicum, in duas partes Divisum, In quo modi Horologia Solaria tum fixa, tum portibia, discribendi faciliores & magis expediti comprehenduntur
Graecii, 1726. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1726
LE Anonymous
Astrolabii quo primimobilis motus deprehenduntur Canones
Instrumentum Astrolabii etiam Impressum est Venetiis in officina Petri Leichtenstein Coloniesis Germani ano 1512. Venetiis, 1512. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1512
LE pamphletAnonymous
Price Lists of Sundials
London, n.d. [c.1910]. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1910?
LE Anonymous
Nova Praxis Construendi Circinum Proportionalem Horographicum, Eoque Rite Confecto Omnis Generis Horologia in Planis Regularibus, etc. ...
Matthaei Cosmerovij, Viennae Austriae. 1695. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1695
LE pamphletAnonymous
Delle ore e dagli orologij dissertatione quarta oraziana
N.p., n.d. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
LE Anonymous
L'Horloge du Laboureur, ou Methode Tres-Facile De connoitre l'heure de la nuit a l'aspect des Etoiles
Dediee a M. Gerard, laboureur, Depute a l'Assemblee Nationale. Paris: Chez Journault le jeune …, 1791. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1791
LE Anonymous
Richtiger und vermehrter Feld-Messer wie auch Sonnen-Uhren-Macher, ohne Lehrmeister und ohne Instrument; etc. ... von einem dieser Kunsten Curieusen Liebhaber
Second Edition. Ulm: Johann Conrad Wohler, 1762. Bound at back: Anonymous, Kurze doch grundliche Unweisung zu Bersertigung der sowohl liegenden als aufrechten Sonnen Uhren. Worinnen die allerleichteste Weiss, wie ein jeder dergleichen ohne Lehrmeister etc. Shelved under Anonymous, Richtiger und vermehrter……. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1762
MS Evans 44Anonymous
Avis contenant les vrais moyens de regler les montres
Geneve & Turin, n.d. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
LE Anonymous
Directions for Observing with Troughton's Reflecting Circle
Seven pages. Printed by C. Rickaby, Fleet-street. n.d. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
LE Anonymous
Instructions for Using the Locomotive Engineers' (or "Hawthorn's") Improved Slide Rule etc. ...
The Mensuration of Superfices & Solids is likewise made perfectly easy; ... . Birmingham: Watton & Co., Printers, 1864. Bound with Anonymous, Instructions for the use of the "Routledge" Engineers' Improved Slide Rule and Anonymous, Instructions for using all the improved Sliding Rules with a description of the Several Lines upon them…. Shelved under Anonymous, 'Instructions for using the locomotive Engineers'….. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1864
LE Anonymous
Instructions for the use of the "Routledge" Engineers' Improved Slide Rule, etc...
The Mensuration of Superfices & Solids is likewise made perfectly easy; ... . Birmingham: Watton & Co., Printers, 1867. Bound with Anon., Instructions for Using the Locomotive Engineers' (or "Hawthorn's") Improved Slide Rule and Anonymous, Instructions for Using all the Improved Sliding Rules, with A Description of the several Lines upon them, etc. .... Shelved under Anonymous, 'Instructions for using the locomotive Engineers...'. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1867
LE Anonymous
Instructions for Using all the Improved Sliding Rules, with A Description of the several Lines upon them, etc. ...
The Mensuration of Superfices and Solids is likewise made perfectly easy, with Round, Square, and Unequal sided timber; ... . Birmingham: Printed by W. Watton & Co., n.d. [1860s]. Bound with Anon., Instructions for Using the Locomotive Engineers' (or "Hawthorn's") Improved Slide Rule and Anonymous, Instructions for the use of the "Routledge" Engineers' Improved Slide Rule. Shelved under Anonymous, 'Instructions for using the locomotive Engineers'….. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
186-?
LE Anonymous
Circle of the Seasons, and Perpetual Key to the Calendar and Almanack; etc. ...
Thomas Hookham, London. 1828. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1828
LE Anonymous
Le Spectacle de La Nature, ou Entretiens sur Les Particularites de L'Histoire Naturelle, etc. ...
Two volumes: Tome Quatrieme and Tome Cinquieme. Haye: Jean Neaulme, 1739; and Paris: Estienne & Fils, 1747, respectively. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1739-1747
LE Anonymous
Spectacle de la Nature: or Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on such Particulars of Natural History As were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth
Translated from the Original French. The Third Edition, Revis'd and Corrected. Printed for R. Francklin, C. Davis, etc. ... London. 1753. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1753
LE Anonymous
Die Kunst gute Sonnen Uhren zu machen oder Practische Unweisung alle Urten der ublichen Sonnen Uhren geometrisch und arithmetrisch zu verfertigen
Ulm, Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1762. Auf Kosten der Gaumischen Handlung. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1762
LE Anonymous
Gnomonique Elementaire
Lille: Vanackere; Paris: Courcier, 1806. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1806
LE oversizeAnonymous
L'Art de L'Imprimerie a Vinise
Venice: {...}, 1896-97. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1896-1897
LE Anonymous
Time and its Keepers
Vol. I no. 1, October 1878. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1878
LE Anonymous
La Spectacle de la Nature. Or, Nature Display'd, etc.
Vol. V. Third Edition. London, 1753. (Dialling, pp. 189-223). Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1753
LE Anonymous
Sonnen Wand, oder Kurtzer Unterricht Allerhand Sonnen Uhren zu reissen auf Mauren, Dillen und Metall …
Von einem Liebhaber der Mathematischen Kunsten zusammen getragen. In Verlegung Wolffgang Moritz Endters. Nurnberg, 1683. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1683
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"A Hair Helped to Hang Him!"
extract from The Evening News, October 5, 1934. (Concerns the forensic use of the microscope).
[Unknown]
1934
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B."
extract from The Strand Magazine, vol. XLII no. 36, n.d. [September 1911], pp. 312-317. (A profile, not an obituary).
[Unknown]
1911?
MS Gunther 47Anonymous
"Interesting People in All Ranks"
extract from Throne, March 27, 1912, p. 495. (Pictures and biographical notices of three industrialists: Robert Wallace Martin, Thomas Hugh Powell, and Rudolph Diesel).
[Unknown]
1912
MS Gunther 72Anonymous
The Oxford University and City Guide, On a New Plan; containing a full description of the Colleges, Halls, Public Buildings, Libraries, Gardens, Walks, Pictures, and Statues, in Oxford: with an Account of the Dresses, Examinations, Degrees, Distinctive Ranks, Manners, Customs, etc. of the Members of the University; To which is added A Guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, and the newly-discovered Roman Villa, near Northleigh
Second edition. Oxford: Printed and sold by Munday and Slatter, n.d. [c.1818]. (Also variant, engraved title page with shorter title). (Ashmolean Museum pp. 65-68). Signed by H. F. Spens, 1818, and bound with his MS journal of a tour on the Continent, 1820. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1818?
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"The Largest Sun Dial in the World"
cutting of illustration and short article from an Irish newspaper, n.d. [?late 19th-century]. (Re. the architectural sundial at Jai Singh's Delhi observatory).
[Unknown]
18--?
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"Sun-Dials and Hourglasses"
extract from Chambers's Journal, October 12, 1889, pp. 651-653.
[Unknown]
1889
MS Museum 25Anonymous
"Dialing"
extract from [the Encyclopedia Londinensis], vol. V part II, n.d. [late 18th-century], pp. 786-804 and plates CLVIII-CLXI.
[Unknown]
17--?
MS Museum 277Anonymous
A Description of the Nature and Motions of Comets, with a history of Several Comets, Which have appeared since the Year 1337; to which is added, an account of the Comet of the Year 1811
Stamford: Printed and sold by J. Drakard, n.d. [c.1811]. Bound with a MS on the same theme and of about the same date, apparently by J. W. Woollgar. Presented by Dr C. H. Josten
[1957-45]
1811?
MS Museum 42Anonymous
"The Temple Sundials"
extract from an unidentified newspaper [early 20th century]. (Re. sundials in the Temple region of London).
[Unknown]
19--?
MS Museum 42Anonymous
"The Production of High Quality Electric Lamps: British Enterprise in the Search for Increasing Efficiency: Longer Life at Small Initial Cost"
extract from The Daily Telegraph, November 15, 1933, p. 18. By Our Engineering Correspondent.
[Unknown]
1933
MS Stapleton 218Anonymous
"The Piltdown 'Lie Detector'"
extract from The Sunday Times, November 29, 1953. (Re. E. T. Hall and the Oxford archaeological laboratory). Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1953
MS Stapleton 228Anonymous
The Zuiderzee Works: The work of half a century told in five minutes
The Hague: n.d. [c.1950]. Also map of the Zuiderzee reclamation. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1950?
MS Stapleton 229Anonymous
Istanbul Umumi Kutuphaneleri Yazmalari Sergisi
Istanbul: 1951. Catalogue of exhibition of scientific manuscripts mounted for the XXII International Congress of Orientalists, Istanbul, 1951. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1951
MS Stapleton 297Anonymous
"Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Science Congress"
extract from Nature, January 1, 1938, pp. 1-2. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1938
MS Stapleton 114Anonymous
"Ancient Arab Chemistry: The Belief In Transmutation"
extract from Forward (a Calcutta newspaper), February 24, 1929. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1929
N (Stack)Anonymous
Traite de chymie, philosophique et hermetique, enrichi des operations les plus curieuses de l'art
Paris : C.M. d'Houry, 1725. Imperfect: lacks t.p. Formerly the property of Dr Leon Lefevre. Taylor Loan Collection.
[1940- ]
1725
N (Stack)Anonymous
The Chemistry of Creation: being a Sketch of the Chief Chemical and Physical Phenomena of the Earth, the Air, the Ocean
Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A New and Corrected Edition. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [c.1860]. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1860?
OXF - periodicalsAnonymous
"An Ashmole Relic"
in The Ashmolean, no. 11, Winter 1986 to Spring 1987, p. 1.
[Unknown]
1986-1987
OXF - periodicalsAnonymous
"The Sheldonian Peep-Show"
in The Ashmolean, no. 13, Winter 1987-88, p. 17.
[Unknown]
1987-1988
OXF (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
Oxford Delineated; or a Sketch of the History and Antiquities, and a General Topographical Description, of that celebrated University and City: illustrated by a Series of Views
Oxford, 1831. Bound with N. Whittock's A Topographical and Historical Description of the University and City of Oxford, ... , 1829.
[Unknown]
1829
MS Gunther {...}Anonymous
Practical Elementary Zoology
Pro-forma exercise book with printed captions and spaces for student's drawings. Printed by Oxford Universiy Press. Some drawings completed by R. T. Gunther. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
PER Anonymous
"Die Abteilung Zeitmessung im Deutschen Museum"
in Kultur & Technik, no. 2/1980, pp. 17-20.
[1980-225]
1980
PER Anonymous
"The Modern 'Zoo'"
in Nature, vol. 119 no. 3001, May 7, 1927, pp. 675-676.
[Unknown]
1927
Prints Anonymous
Reactions-Schema fur die qualitative Analyse zum Gebrauche im chemischen Laboratorium.zu Berlin
Berlin, 1870. Folding table, bound like a pamphlet.
[1965-298]
1870
Prints Anonymous
[Panorama of Procession]
Panoramic print, about 41/2 feet by 41/2 inches (incomplete) showing a procession of Ambassadors in State Coaches, lead through London by the High Constable of Westminster. Hand coloured lithograph; no signature etc. n.d. [mid 19th C.]. [?Possibly at Coronation of Queen Victoria, 1837]. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1837?
Q (Open Shelf)Anonymous
Portratgallerie der Astronomischen Gesellschaft
Budapest: Konigliche Ungarische Universitatsdruckerie, 1931. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1975-76]
1931
Q (Open Shelf)Anonymous
Portratgallerie der Astronomischen Gesellschaft
Portrats nebst Genealogischen Notizen. Stockholm: Druck von Hasse W. Tullberg, 1904. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1975-77]
1904
Q Anonymous
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
No. 150. National Museum for the History of Natural and Medical Sciences. Leiden.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
R - pamphletsAnonymous
Historical Apparatus
[in the Royal Institution, London]. London: [?Royal Institution], n.d. Modern Science Memoirs, no. 8. Bound in 'Cambridge Papers'.
[1964-24]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Anonymous
A History of Wonderful Inventions
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Formerly the property of E. Neville Rolfe. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1849
R (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, shewing their Origin, Progress, Theory, Use and Practice, and exhibiting the Invention, Structure, Improvement, and Uses, of the most considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines, with their Nature, Power, and Operation, decyphered in Fifty Two copper-plates
Vol. I only (of 2). London: printed for J. Coote, at the King's Arms, in Pater-Noster-Row. 1759. 4to. Taylor Loan Collection
[1940- ]
1759
R Anonymous
"Bericht uber das Kolloquium des Forschungsinstituts fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaftenund der Technik im s.s.1964 und w.s.1964/65"
in Veroffentlichungen des Forschungsinstituts des Deutschen Museums fur die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 6, 1965.
[1966-117]
1965
R (Stack)Anonymous
A Vindication of the New Theory of the Earth from the Exceptions of Mr Keill and Others, with an Historical Preface of the Occasions of the Discoveries therein contain'd: and some Corrections and Additions
London: Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet. 1698. Bound with J. Keill, An Examination of Dr Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 8vo. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.14)
[1962-65/ ]
1698
R (Stack)Anonymous
Readings in Science; being explanations of some of the most interesting Appearances and Principles in Natural Philosophy, expressed in simple language, and illustrated by familiar examples
Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: John W. Parker, West Strand. 1833. Formerly the property of Robert, Janus and Edith Napier
[Unknown]
1833
R (Stack)Anonymous
Readings in Science; being explanations of some of the most interesting Appearances and Principles in Natural Philosophy, expressed in simple language, and illustrated by familiar examples
The Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: John W. Parker, 1838. Formerly the property of Emma Liventyman
[Unknown]
1838
Radcliffe Tracts 1 (2)Anonymous
Meteorologische Waarnemingen, Gedaan op het eiland Decima, bij stad Nangasaki, op Japan
n.p. [?Holland], n.d. [(?1851].
[1934-41]
1851?
Radcliffe Tracts 1 (2a)Anonymous
Vervolg der Meteorologische Waarnemingen te Buitenzorg op Java
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 105 (1)Anonymous
An Explanation of the Construction and Method of Working the Magnetic Needle Telegraph
Brentwood: James Hugh Perry, n.d. [after 1846].
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 109 (3)Anonymous
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, in the month of August, 1854
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 109 (4)Anonymous
Meteorological Observations kept at Rangoon (1853)
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 13 (1)Anonymous
Description and Use of a new Astronomical Instrument, for taking altitudes at Sea without an Horizon
London, 1735.
[1934-41]
1735
Radcliffe Tracts 13 (6)Anonymous
A General and Particular Account of the Annular Eclipse of the Sun, which will happen On Sunday, April 1, 1764, in the Forenoon. With a General and Particular Map of the Passage of the Moon's Shade, or Penumbra, over the Earth, from the Entrance to the Exit of the same; and also over England and the neighbouring Dominions: Exhibiting All the various Appearances of this Eclipse in different Parts of the Earth. Likewise a Representation thereof for several important Cities and remarkable Places
London: Printed for the Author of the Royal Astronomer and Navigator, 1764.
[1934-41]
1764
Radcliffe Tracts 206 (1)Anonymous
"Transit Instruments" [and] "Transits of Mercury and Venus"
articles from an unidentified encyclopaedia.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 28 (11)Anonymous
Account of the Siamese Twin Brothers, from Actual Observations. Together with Full Length Portraits, the only correct ones, permitted to be taken by their Protectors
London: W. Turner, 1829.
[1934-41]
1829
Radcliffe Tracts 31 (16)Anonymous
Places of the Four New Planets, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, and Pallas, for the Times of their Opposition to the Sun, in the Year, 1830
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 31 (17)Anonymous
Appendix to the Third Edition of the Requisite Tables; being New Tables of Natural Sines, Natural Versed Sines, and Logarithms of Numbers
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 39 (11)Anonymous
An Account of the Proceedings, in order to the Discovery of the Longitude: in a Letter to the Right Honourable ******, Member of Parliament
London: Printed by T. and J. W. Pasham, in Black-Friars, and Sold by the Booksellers, in London and Westminster, 1763.
[1934-41]
1763
Radcliffe Tracts 39 (12)Anonymous
The Description of a Time-keeper for Astronomical and other Uses
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 58 (1)Anonymous
An Account of the Origin of Steam-Boats, in Spain, Great Britain, and America; and of their Introduction and Employment upon the River Thames, between London and Gravesend, to the present Time
London: Effingham Wilson, 1831.
[1934-41]
1831
Radcliffe Tracts 59 (5)Anonymous
The History of Inland Navigations, particularly that of the Duke of Bridgwater, Illustrated with Geographical Plans, shewing the Counties, Townships, and Villages through which these Navigations are carried, or intended to be. The Whole shewing the Utility and Importance of Inland Navigations
Third Edition. London: T. Lowndes, 1779.
[1934-41]
1779
Radcliffe Tracts 59 (6)Anonymous
Lines round Oxford, made between 1642 and 1646
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 59 (6)Anonymous
Lines round Oxford, made between 1642 and 1646
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 62 (12)Anonymous
Appendix ad priora duo Elementa Geometriae
n.p., n.d. [?17th century].
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 62 (13)Anonymous
The School of Miniature, erected for the Instruction of the Ignorant, the Improvement of Proficients, and the General Information of such as are pleased with Pictures in Small. Herein are contained the most expeditious and infallible Ways of Drawing without being taught; and all the Methods of Colouring, Stippling, etc. Illustrated by Numbers of Practical Processes upon each Head or Article; particularly useful to those who would Copy in Colours from a Print. To the Whole are annexed many valuable Receipts for preparing the Colours, which are peculiar to this kind of Painting; communicated by the best Italian and other Masters. As also, the Preparation of an excellent Polished Gold and Shell Gold, Published from an Old MSS
London: S. Harding, 1732.
[1934-41]
1732
Radcliffe Tracts 64 (14)Anonymous
Loi portant etablissement d'un Bureau des Longitudes. Du 7 Messidor, l'an 3e de la Republique une et indivisible (25 Juin 1795, ancien style)
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 64 (15)Anonymous
Reglement du Bureau des Longitudes. Extrait du Registre des Deliberations du Comite d'Instruction publique, ce 4e jour complementaire, an troisieme de la Republique Francaise, une et indivisible (20 Septembre 1795, ancien style)
London: J. Moyes, Chancery Lane, n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 66 (80)Anonymous
Suggestions for the Observation of the Annular Eclipse, Oct. 9, 1847, made by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford, June 26, 1847
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 74 (8)Anonymous
Opuscula Astronomica ex Ephemeridibus Mediolanensibus ad annos 1788 & 1789 Excerpta
Milan: Joseph Galeatius, 1787.
[1934-41]
1787
Radcliffe Tracts 76 (6)Anonymous
Appendix de Linearum Geometricarum Proprietatibus Generalisus Tractatus
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 77 (2)Anonymous
A New and Universal Dictionary of Pure and Mixed Mathematics
Fasc. 1 (A - AIR PUMP) only. n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 78 (8)Anonymous
Speculum Mundi: Or, An Exact Account Of the Great and Formidable Eclipse of the Sun; Which will be Visible, Total and Central, in England, May 11, 1724
Shewing The true Time of the Beginning, Middle, and End of it; with its Quantity and Duration, as it will appear at London. Also, The Names of those Cities and Towns in England where it will be total, and on what Side of the Sun's Body the Light will be seen, and how much, where it is not total. With The various Events and Contingencies which are likely to succeed it in several Parts of the World therein concerned. London: Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1723.
[1934-41]
1723
Radcliffe Tracts 25 (14)Anonymous
Problems in some of the Higher Branches of Algebra
London: J. Johnson, 1807.
[1934-41]
1807
Radcliffe Tracts 28 (11)Anonymous
Account of the Siamese Twin Brothers
London, 1830.
[1934-41]
1830
Radcliffe Tracts 31 (7)Anonymous
Account of the Relative Situations of the Different Stars, by which the Principal Constellations may be Distinguished
from Nicholson's Philosophical Journal. 2 copies.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 39 (11)Anonymous
An Account of the Proceedings, in Order to the Discovery of the Longitude: in a Letter to the Right Honourable ******, Member of Parliament
London, 1763(?).
[1934-41]
1763?
Radcliffe Tracts 58 (1)Anonymous
An Account of the Origin of Steam-Boats, in Spain, Great Britain, and America; and of their Introduction and Employment upon the River Thames, between London and Gravesend, to the present Time
London: Effingham Wilson, 1831.
[1934-41]
1831
Radcliffe Tracts 91 (2)Anonymous
An Address to the Gentlemen of the County of Cornwall, on The Present State of Mining In that County: with Some Observations on the Tin and Copper Trades
London, 1772.
[1934-41]
1772
REF Anonymous
Museums and Art Galleries in Great Britain and Ireland 1983
Dunstable, Bedfordshire: ABC Historic Publications, 1983. (Note navigation instruments and other maritime objects from the Town Docks Museum, Hull, on cover).
[1983-182]
1983
E Anonymous
The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy
1898 and 1900 editions. London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1900 and 1898. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-628] &[78-631]
1898-1900
E (Stack)Anonymous
The Wonders of the Microscope: or, An Explanation of the Wisdom of the Creator in Objects Comparatively Minute, adapted to the Understanding of Young Persons
London: Tabart & Co., [c.1820]. Royal Microscopical Society Collection.
[1978-528]
1820?
RMC Anonymous
"On the application of the microscope to scientific purposes"
offprint{?} from The London Physiological Journal, October 1843. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1978-627]
1843
E (Stack)Anonymous
The Wonders of the Microscope: or, An Explanation of the Wisdom of the Creator in Objects comparatively minute. Adapted to the Understanding of Young Persons
London: Richard Phillips, 1811. Royal Microscopical Society Collection.
[1978-745]
1811
S Anonymous
Wireless Telephony Explained
London: {...}, n.d.
[1965-366]
[n.d.]
file U (Stack)Anonymous
Instructions for the use of Hurter and Driffield's Actinograph
London: {...}, 1892.
[1968-85]
1892
Scrapbook Anonymous
"The Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford"
extract from Engineering, May 19, 1933, pp. 533-536.
[Unknown]
1933
Scrapbook Anonymous
"250th Anniversary of England's Oldest Museum: Old Ashmolean, Oxford's Centre of Scientific Study ..."
extract from Oxford Mail, May 19, 1933, p. 5 [?].
[Unknown]
1933
Scrapbook Anonymous
"The Oxford Museum of the History of Science"
extract from Oxfordshire Roundabout, vol. 1 no. 1, June 1965, pp. 17-20. (Presumably by G. L'E. Turner).
[Unknown]
1965
Scrapbook Anonymous
"The Late Henry Minn"
extract from The Bodleian Library Record, vol. VII no. 2, July 1963, pp. 65-66. (Re. Henry James Hall Minn (1870-1961)).
[Unknown]
1963
Scrapbook Anonymous
"Opening of the Lewis Evans Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, May 5th, 1925"
offprint from the Oxford Times, May 8, 1925. Also reprinted on the same sheet, a short report of a retirement present to J. J. Manley, from May 15, 1925.
[Unknown]
1925
U (Open Shelf)Anonymous
"A Scientific Text of the Middle Ages"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, June 3, 1955. Review of Derek J. Price (ed.), The Equatorie of the Planetis (Cambridge, 1955). Enclosed in Dr Crombie's copy of the book.
[1996-110]
1955
U (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
Das Reichspatentamt, 1877-1927: Ruckblick auf sein Werden und Wirken
Berlin: Heymann, 1927. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1969-106]
1927
U (Open Shelf - oversize)Anonymous
Le Materiau Verre dans la Construction: Eclairage Naturel et Isolation
Paris: Editions R.-L. Dupuy, 1953. (Instrument, the 'horizontoscope', pp. 16-24.) Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1989-205]
1953
U Anonymous
Directions for using the Engineers' Sliding Rule; with a description of the several lines upon it, and Directions how to find any Number thereon; together with The Application of these Lines to Multiplication, Division, the Rule of Three, etc. etc.
The Mensuration of Superfices and Solids are likewise made perfectly easy; it is also particularly useful in Weighing all kinds of Metals and other Bodies. Printed by W. Penn, 31, Bush Lane, Cannon Street, for The Master Rule Makers, of London. N.d. [inscribed ?1856]. Inscribed on the cover, Henryk T Mirk, ? 1856
[Unknown]
1856?
V (Stack)Anonymous
Valuable secrets in arts and trades ...
London: Printed for J. Barker, J. Cattermoul & J. Parsons, n.d. [?c.1790].
[1970-30]
1790?
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"Clock"
in How It Works: The A to Z of invention, science and technology with thousands of fascinating diagrams and photographs: A Marshall Cavendish encyclopaedia in 98 weekly parts, part 21, 1974, pp. 581-585. London: Marshall Cavendish Limited, 1974.
[1974-76]
1974
W Anonymous
"Clocks" [and] "Watches"
extracts from [?Encyclopaedia Britannica, c.1819 edition]. Together with accompanying plates on horology {?}. Inscribed "Henry Minn, from Herbert Hurst With many thanks. June 1898"
[Unknown]
1819?
W (Stack)Anonymous
A Brief Account of the Chronometer, with Remarks on those furnished by Parkinson and Frodsham to the Expeditions of Captains Ross, Parry, Sabine, King, Lyon, Foster, and other distinguished navigators, with the Rate of Others tried at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the Years 1828-29-30-31
London: Printed by M. A. Pittman, n.d. [c.1835]. Michael Faraday's copy, presented to him by the author on 2/vi/1835
[Unknown]
1835?
W Anonymous
Astronomical Clock in York Minster
York: n.d.
[1967-47]
[n.d.]
X (Open Shelf)Anonymous
The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
A record of the work done in Science, Literature, and Art during the Session 1913-1914 by numerous Societies and Government Institutions. Compiled from Official Sources. Thirty-first Annual Issue. London: Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., 1914. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1914
UNC (Stack)Anonymous
Die Moral der Jesuiten, quellenmassig nachgewiesen aus ihren Schriften von einem Katholiken
Celle: Literarische Anstalt August Schulze, 1874. Doctrina moralis Jesuitarum [series]. ?Gunther Loan Collection [rebound by Gunther in binding with Bouverie-Pusey bookplate]
[?1940-6/ ]
1874
R (Stack)Anonymous
Sphaerae atque Astrorum coelestium ratio, natura, & motus: ad totius mundi fabricationis cognitione fundementa
M.D.XXXVI [1536]. valde-rus. Bound with Everard Digby, Theoria Analytica (1579). 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.8.9)
[1962-65/ ]
1536
Pending Anonymous
Survey of Lands (Tithe Act)
{...}. Envelope.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
R - pamphletsAnonymous
The Natural History of Coffee, Thee, Chocolate, Tobacco. In four several Sections; with a Tract of Elder and Juniper-Berries, Shewing how Useful they may be in Our Coffee-Houses: And also the way of making Mum, With some Remarks upon that Liquor
Collected from the Writings of the best Physicians, and Modern Travellers. London: Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet. 1682. Bound with Christopher Merrett, A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries, and other pamphlets, in volume 'Tracts. Medecine Nat. Hist.'. 4to. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.9.4)
[1962-65/ ]
1682
REF (Stack)Anonymous
The New Complete Guide to all Persons who have any Trade or Concern with the City of London and Parts adjacent
13th ed. London: printed for T. Longman … [et al.], [1765?].
[1966-20]
1765?
D (Stack)Anonymous
A Companion to the Telescope
London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, by James Moyes, 1811. Formerly the property of [Abram] Robertson; from the Radcliffe Observatory (*)
[Unknown]
1811
MS Gunther ArchiveAnonymous
First Book of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools
Revised and Corrected. Published by Direction of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom, Printer & Publisher, 1875. R. T. Gunther's copy (owned by him as a child)
[1971-39]
1875
N (Berkeley)Anonymous
Heaven Open to All Men: or, a Theological Treatise, in which, without unsettling the Practice of Religion, is Solidly Prov'd, by Scripture and Reason, that All Men shall be Saved, or made Finally Happy
The Third Edition. London: Printed for Jacob Robinson, at the Golden-Lion, in Ludgate-Street. N.d. [c.1740]. 8vo. Bound with George Berkeley, Siris ... (1744).
[1940- ]
1740?
Pending Anonymous
A Table of the Assize of Bread, in Pounds, Ounces, and Drams, Averdupois Weight
Broadsheet, n.d. [18th C]. Together with a second table headed: 'Tab[le] ... for finding the legal Assize of Bread when ... Galll{?}ons, and the Peck Loaf is ...' (badly torn). Envelope.
[Unknown]
17--?
N Anonymous
Table Synoptique des Poids Atomiques des Corps Simples, et de quelques-unes de leurs Combinaisons les plus Importantes
N.p., n.d. {...?}
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
G (Stack)Anonymous
"Recent Work upon Visceral and Allied Nerves"
offprint/extract{?} from Science Progress, n.d. [probably new series vol. I, 1897], pp. 34-76 (incomplete). Bound with other pamphlets in volume 'Physiology. I.'.
[Unknown]
1897?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Note sur les travaux de M. Babinet
N.d. [?1838].
[Unknown]
1838?
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Balard
Paris: Bachelier, 1844.
[Unknown]
1844
PER Anonymous
Review
of Roger Barlow's A Brief Summe of Geographie; in The Mariner's Mirror, vol. XVIII no. 4, {...}, p. 439.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Barometers"
in How It Works: The A to Z of invention, science and technology with thousands of fascinating diagrams and photographs: A Marshall Cavendish encyclopaedia in 98 weekly parts, part 8, 1974, pp. 238-240. London: Marshall Cavendish Limited, 1974.
[1974-34]
1974
file W (Stack)Anonymous
L'horloge monumentale de la Cathedrale de Beauvais concue et executee par L. Verite
Beauvais, 1966. Transferred to Bodleian, September 2017.
[1967-266]
1966
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Analyse succincte des travaux de M. Becquerel
Paris: Imprimerie de firmin Didot pere et fils, 1829.
[Unknown]
1829
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
"The Old Ashmolean's 250th Anniversary: A Descendant of Tradescant's "Ark.""
extract from The Illustrated London News, May 20, 1933, pp. 733 and 732. (Several interesting illustrations).
[Unknown]
1933
MS Radcliffe 72/2/8Anonymous
"A Portrait-Painter Who Studied the Moon"
extract from The Illustrated London News, October 18, 1930, pp. 673-674 and I-III (colour insert). Extracted from an article by E. J. Stone ... . [An illustrated article purporting to be extracted from Stone's 1896 paper but in fact quite different, except that it quotes Russell's letter at length, as in Stone's paper]. Another copy in file D under Stone.
[?1934-42]
1930
file X (Stack)Anonymous
"Royal Institution Lectures"
various reports extracted from The Illustrated London News, 1870-1881.
[Unknown]
1870-1881
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Epitaphium Renati Binet tumulo inscriptum
{...}
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Obituary: Sir Lawrence Bragg: One of the leading physicists of his time"
photocopy from The Times, July 2, 1971. Obituary of Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971).
[Unknown]
1971
OLD PER Anonymous
"Sir David Brewster, R.H., F.R.S."
in The Penny Mechanic, vol. I no. 1, March 7, 1868, p. 3. Obituary or biographical article in 'Remembrances of Eminent Men' column.
[Unknown]
1868
S (Stack)Anonymous
Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, with 238 Woodcut Illustrations
Forming the first volume of natural philosophy for the use of schools. Printed and published by direction of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom, Printer and Publisher, 1862. From the library of G. H. Morrell
[1984-96]
1862
Radcliffe Tracts 64 (9)Anonymous
A Letter to Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, in which his Pretensions to the Title of Natural Philosopher are considered
London: Printed for J. Bew, no. 47 Paternoster-Row,; and sold by Messrs. Fletcher, Parker, and Prince, at Oxford, 1777.
[1934-41]
1777
Q (Open Shelf - oversize)Anonymous
"Claude Lorrain"
The Great Artists: Their Lives, Works and Inspiration: A Marshall Cavendish Weekly Collection, part 53: Claude Lorrain, 1986. Edited by Clive Gregory. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1986. Presented by the publisher
[1986-5]
1986
Q (Stack - oversize)Anonymous
"Lewis Carroll"
The Great Writers: Their Lives, Works and Inspiration: A Marshall Cavendish Fortnightly Collection, vol. 1 part 13: Lewis Carroll, 1987. Edited by Reg Wright. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1987. Presented by the publisher
[1987-47]
1987
E (Stack - x oversize)Anonymous
Essai d'employer les Instruments Microscopiques avec Utilite et Plaisir dans La Saison du Printems par l'Auteur des Amusements Microscopiques tant des Yeux que de l'Esprit
Traduit de l'Allemand par I. C. Harrepeter, Maitre es Arts. (German and French in parallel columns). Nuremberg: A. L. Wirsing, 1764. Royal Microscopical Society Collection (purchase)
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1764
file E (Stack)Anonymous
"Textil-Mikro-Lehrgang auf Schloss Hohenstein: Teilnehmerbericht"
offprint from Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Textil-Industrie, vol. LV, 1955, pp. 291-292. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1980-132]
1955
PER Anonymous
"Schreibtechnik im Spiegel der Zeit"
in Kultur & Technik, no. 3/1981, pp. 154-159. Kultur & Technik (Redaktion).
[1980-225]
1981
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Dr P. H. Leslie"
offprint from Nature, vol. 239 no. 5373, October 20, 1972, pp. 477-478. Obituary{?}.
[1973-23]
1972
file Q (Ashmole)Anonymous
The Story of Lichfield Cathedral
Eighth edition. Lichfield, n.d. (Contains material re. Elias Ashmole).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Stapleton 258Anonymous
"The Atom: A Layman's Primer on what the World is Made of"
extract from Life, May 16, 1949, pp. 68-[?85]. Stapleton Bequest
[1962-64]
1949
Radcliffe Tracts 49 (20)Anonymous
Considerations on the Nature and Objects of the Intended Light and Heat Company
Published by Authority of the Committee. London: Printed for James Ridgway ..., 1808.
[1934-41]
1808
Radcliffe Tracts 23 (4)Anonymous
Obituary
of Joseph Johann Edler von Littrow (1781-1840); 8-page pamphlet. N.p., n.d. [c.1842].
[1934-41]
1842?
PER Anonymous
"Infinite inexactitude of longitude in 1622"
in The Mariner's Mirror, vol. XX no. 3, {...}, p. 376, and vol. XX no. 4, {...}, p. 500.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
R Anonymous
"Upon Mr. Maudslay's Patent Self-acting Stern Propeller"
in Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, vol. XLIX no. 1309, Saturday, September 9, 1848. [See also in this issue letter from "ex-reviewer" on the idea of forma attached to numbers].
[Unknown]
1848
G (Stack)Anonymous
Doctor Mead's Short Discourse Explain'd. Being an Account of Pestilential Contagion, and Preventing
Nec satis est dixisse, ego mira poemata pango. London: Printed, and Sold by W. Boreham, at the Angel in Pater-noster Row. 1721. 4to. Bound with G. Harris, De Peste Dissertatio. On permanent loan from University College, Oxford (R.9.13)
[1962-65/ ]
1721
file R (Stack)Anonymous
"Nazi-Socialism and International Science"
extract from Nature, vol. 136 no. 3450, December 14, 1935, pp. 927-928. (Editorial).
[Unknown]
1935
file V (Stack)Anonymous
"The Rarest Sport in the World"
extract from The Observer [colour supplement], June 13, 1965, pp. 16-29 and front cover. (Photographs, including cover picture of a balloon over Oxfordshire, and report 'By our ballooning correspondent'). Presented by Professor G. L'E. Turner
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1965
E (Stack)Anonymous
Optics
[s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d]. Royal Microscopical Society Collection.
[1978-419]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Supplement a la notices sur les titres de M. Payen
Agriculture, chimie organique et physiologie experimentale. Paris: Printed by Bouchard-Huzard, 1840. (Re. A. Payen).
[Unknown]
1840
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Eugene Peligot
From 1833 to 1844. Paris: Printed by Bachelier, 1844.
[Unknown]
1844
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Analyse des memoires publies par M. V. Regnault
(Ingenieur des Mines, professeur-adjoint de Chimie analytique a l'Ecole des Mines, repetiteur a l'Ecole Polytechnique, professeur de Physique a l'Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures). Paris: Bachelier, 1840.
[Unknown]
1840
U (Stack)Anonymous
"An Account of a Book, intitl'd, De Luminis Affectionibus Specimen Physico-Mathematicum, dedicated to Cardinal Polignac, and printed at Trevise and Venice, 1727, by Signior Rizzetti"
extract from Eames & Martyn, The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged, vol. VI, 1734, pp. 145-146 (article VIII). (Extract consists of articles IV-VIII, pp. 129-146, containing chiefly John Hadley, "An Account of a Reflecting Telescope ..." and "The Description of an Instrument for taking Angles, by Reflections ..." [see separate entries]).
[Unknown]
1734
L (Stack)Anonymous
First Steps in General Knowledge Part II: The Surface of the Earth
London: Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and printed for the Society, 1847. Gabb Bequest, 1948.
[1949- ]
1847
file E (Stack)Anonymous
On the Double Refraction and Polarisation of Light
Published by ?The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.{?} (List of the Committees of the Institution on back cover.) (Front cover and pp. 33 onwards missing).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de H. Walferdin
Membre de la Societe Philomatique, un des Membres fondateurs de la Societe Geologique de France, etc. Paris: Printed by Bachelier, De l'Ecole Polytechnique et du Bureau des Longitudes, 1852.
[Unknown]
1852
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Professor Eva Taylor: Pioneering the New Geography"
extract from The Times, July 7, 1966. Obituary of Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879-1966).
[Unknown]
1966
Radcliffe Tracts 39 (12)Anonymous
The Description of a Time-Keeper For Astronomical and other Uses
n.p., n.d.
[1934-41]
[n.d.]
UNC (Stack)Anonymous
Domestic Management, or the Art of Conducting a Family; with Instructions to Servants in general. Addressed to Young Housekeepers
The best of Presents to Servants of all Denominations. London: Printed, for H. D. Symonds, at the Literary Press, no. 62, Wardour-Street, Soho. 12mo. Formerly the property of Lady Grant of Monymoske
[1926-54]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 54 (22)Anonymous
Anzeige der nothwendigsten Verhaltungsregeln bei nahen GEwittern und der zwekmasigsten Mittel, sich selbst gegen die schadlichen Wirkungen des Blizes zu sichern
Second Edition. Gorlitz: E. S. Anton, 1800.
[1934-41]
1800
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"Mr. Percy Webster's Collection of Old Watches and Clocks - The Council's visit"
in The Horological Journal, vol. LXIX no. 819, November 1926, pp. 48-54. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1926
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Ferguson's Mechanical Paradox"
photocopy from Horological Journal, vol. 1, 1858-9, pp. 163-165. (Re. James Ferguson).
[1968-57]
1858-1859
LE Anonymous
L'Horloge du Laboureur, ou Methode Facile Pour connoitre l'heure de la nuit a l'aspect des Etoiles
Dedie au citoyen Gerard, Laboureur et Depute a l'Assemblee constituante. Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Demoraine …, An VIII [1800]. Lewis Evans Collection
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1800
R - pamphletsAnonymous
"The Meeting of the American Historical Association at New York"
offprint from The American Historical Review, vol. XV no. 3, April 1910, pp. 475-495. Together with compliments slip of J. Franklin Jameson [one of the editors]. In volume 'Pamphlets III'.
[1970-42]
1910
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Portrait Gallery: Professor E. B. Chain, F.R.S."
photocopy from The Sunday Times, March 8, 1959, p. 5.
[Unknown]
1959
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Miss Matilda Talbot"
extract from The Times, March 26, 1958. Obituary of Matilda Theresa Talbot (1872-1958), descendant of W. H. Fox Talbot.
[Unknown]
1958
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Italy the Cradle of Science: An Exhibition of Many Inventions, at Florence"
extract from The Illustrated London News, June 1, 1929, pp. 954-955.
[Unknown]
1929
file REF (Stack)Anonymous
"A New and Great Treasure-House for the Nation. The National Maritime Museum to be Opened by H.M. the King"
extract from The Illustrated London News, April 10, 1937, pp. 613-614 (incomplete).
[Unknown]
1937
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Scientific Apparatus" with Cannon! - An 18th-Century Laboratory"
extract from The Illustrated London News, May 21, 1938, pp. 897 and 896. (Re. Sebastian Leclerc's drawing of the Paris Academy physical apparatus).
[Unknown]
1938
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"The Finest Extant Elizabethan Scientific Instrument"
extract from The Illustrated London News, August 14, 1926, p. 293. Several copies.
[Unknown]
1926
E (Stack)Anonymous
The Wonders of the Microscope: or, An Explanation of the Wisdom of the Creator in Objects comparatively minute. Adapted to the Understanding of Young Persons
London: Tabart & Co., [?after 1811]. Royal Microscopical Society Collection.
[1978-746]
1811?
file W (Stack)Anonymous
Horloge astronomique de Zimmer
N.p., n.d. [c.1960]. (Re. Louis Zimmer). Presented by Monsieur C. Moureau
[1963-142]
1960?
file R (Stack)Anonymous
"Maths and Myths"
extract from an unknown newspaper [?Times Literary Supplement], n.d. Review of H. S. Bellamy, Moons, Myths and Man (London, {...}).
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Percy Wragg Brian; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/1]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Dr David Armitage Bannerman; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/2]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Gilbert Stead; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/3]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Norman Denbigh Riley; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/4]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Otto Robert Frisch; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/5]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Sir Ernst Boris Chain; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/6]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Dennis Gabor; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/7]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Gilbert Smithson Adair; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/8]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Dr Sidnie Manton (Mrs J. P. Harding); extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/9]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Norman Robert Barrett; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/10]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Charles Putnam Symonds; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/11]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Frank Fraser Darling; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/12]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Frank Clare Wilkinson; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/13]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/14]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor Robert Donald Teare; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/15]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Dr Donald Hunter; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/16]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Professor (William) Stanley Walton; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/17]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Dr Peter Maxwell Farrow Bishop; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/18]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Air Vice-Marshall Edward Demetrius Dalziel Dickson; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/19]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Dr Julia Bell; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/20]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Barbara Saunders; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/21]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Barnes Wallis; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/22]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Leonard George Frise; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/23]
1979
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Sir Peter Venables; extract from The Times, 1979.
[1979-315/24]
1979
Q Anonymous
"Obituary | Sir E. Ray Lankester"
extract from The Times, August 16, 1929. In bound volume of obituaries of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929). Formerly the property of R. T. Gunther
[Unknown]
1929
Q Anonymous
"Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B."
extract from the Strand Magazine, vol. XLII, September 1911, pp. 312-317. In bound volume of obituaries of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929). Formerly the property of R. T. Gunther
[Unknown]
1911
Q Anonymous
"Famous Savant Dead. Sir E. Ray Lankester. Science Made Popular"
extract from an unknown newspaper, August 16, 1929. Obituary. In bound volume of obituaries of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929). Formerly the property of R. T. Gunther
[Unknown]
1929
file D (Stack)Anonymous
"The Radcliffe Observatory Collection"
extract from Journal of Scientific Instruments, vol. XII no. 5, May 1935, pp. 174-175.
[Unknown]
1935
Envelope files Anonymous
"A Time-Signal Receiver"
photocopy from The Wireless World, February 1914, pp. 686-687. (Re. Marconi instrument).
[Unknown]
1914
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Mr. Scriven Bolton's Work"
photocopy of newspaper cutting of obituary [probably from a Leeds local newspaper], 1929; together with funeral report, portrait from a magazine, and photographs and manuscript items relating to Bolton's astronomical work. Originals in University Observatory box 3.
[Unknown]
1929
file Y (Stack)Anonymous
"Astrolabe"
in How It Works: The A to Z of invention, science and technology with thousands of fascinating diagrams and photographs: A Marshall Cavendish encyclopaedia in 98 weekly parts, part 6, 1974, pp. 168-169. London: Marshall Cavendish Ltd., 1974.
[1974-25]
1974
Pending Anonymous
Dialogy s hvezdami
Two reels of film on the history of astronomy, [c.1967]. Czechoslovakian, with English sound-track.
[1967-95]
1967?
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Art in Scientific Instruments"
extract from The Times, March 3, 1962, p. 11. From a collector. (Re. Billmeir and Findlay collections). Presented by Leicester City Museums Service
[1999-39]
1962
R - pamphletsAnonymous
Review
of Joseph Priestley, History and Present State of Electricity; extract{?} from The Political Register, 1767. Bound in 'Cambridge Papers'.
[1964-24]
1767
file E - eye glassesAnonymous
Polaroid Glasses: What they are and what they do
Dated in MS February 3, 1937. B. A. O. [{?British Association of Opticians/Ophthalmologists}], publication no. HG 33.
[Unknown]
1937
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Eadweard Muybridge: First Photographer of Motion"
extract from The Times, May 7, 1954. Together with negative and positive photostats of same [formerly displayed].
[Unknown]
1954
file W (Stack)Anonymous
The Medieval Clock of Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury: Published by the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, n.d. Leaflet (4 pages). [A newer edition of that published at the Times Office, Salisbury]. 2 copies.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Cornelius Varley; photocopy from the Monthly Microscopical Journal, vol. 11, 1874, pp. 138-139.
[Unknown]
1874
file OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"Merton's Bells to Chime the Hour: Electric Clock Installed in Turret: Oxford Innovation"
photocopy of cutting from [?The Times], April 7, 1933. Original cutting in MS Gunther 58.
[Unknown]
1933
SYLL (Robison)Anonymous
Directions for Using the Patent Aerometrical Beads, and Sliding Rule; for Ascertaining the Specific Gravities, or Strength, of Spirituous Liquors
Edinburgh: Printed by H. Inglis, 1807. Disbound; followed by John Robison, Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Mechanical Philosophy (1803) [see separate entry].
[Unknown]
1807
SYLL Anonymous
Lectures on the Elements of Physical Science
Physics: Lecture VII (incorporating parts of VI) - XV; Botany: Lecture I - IX. N.p., n.d. (First page contains questions on Roman economics headed "Professor Seeley's Lectures", apparently unrelated to the rest). Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
[n.d.]
file E (Stack)Anonymous
Institut fur angewandte Mikroskopie, Photographie und Kinematographie, Mannheim, der Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung eV
n.p., n.d. Royal Microscopical Society Collection
[1980-134]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Dr. C. Singer: Historian of Science and Medicine"
photocopy of extract from The Times, June 13, 1960. Obituary. Original cutting enclosed in one of Stapleton's copies of Osiris.
[Unknown]
1960
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Art and Science in the Nasmyth Family"
extract from The Times, September 16, 1958. (Re. Alexander, Patrick, and James Nasmyth).
[Unknown]
1958
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
"Scientific Instruments and the Old Ashmolean"
in The Museums Journal, vol. 22 no. 7, January 1923, pp. 166-167. [Presumably written by the editor, J. Bailey].
[Unknown]
1923
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"The Life and Work of Carl Zeiss"
extract from The Optician, December 27, 1963, pp. 643-646. Translated by John Horwitz from the Suddeutsche Optikerzeitung.
[Unknown]
1963
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Lawrence Braymer, inventor of the Questar telescope; extract from Modern Photography (USA), vol. 30 no. 3, March 1966, p. 82. Together with Questar advert extracted from p. 35 of the same issue.
[Unknown]
1966
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Eloge de Richerand"
offprint from Memoires de l'Academie Nationale de Medecine, tome XVI, {?1851}. Read at the Annual Public Meeting, December 10, 1850. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1851.
[Unknown]
1851
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of Edmund John Bowen (1898-1980); photocopy from University College's magazine, 1981, pp. 77-83.
[Unknown]
1981
G - bibliographyAnonymous
"Bibliography of the History of Medicine of the United States and Canada"
Various offprints from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1960-1965.
[Unknown]
1960-1965
file T (Stack)Anonymous
"Egyptian Mathematics"
extract from The Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, March 20, 1924, p. 175. Review of T. Eric Peet (ed. and trans.), The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Liverpool, 1924). Together with another review from Discovery [see separate entry].
[Unknown]
1924
file T (Stack)Anonymous
"The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus"
extract from Discovery, vol. V no. 54, June 1924, pp. 106-107. Review of T. Eric Peet (ed. and trans.), The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Liverpool, 1924). Together with another review from the TLS [see separate entry].
[Unknown]
1924
MS Gunther {...}Anonymous
"Early Science at the Royal Society"
extracts from Nature, 1924-1929{?}. Series of articles. Bound with cuttings of R. T. Gunther's series "Early Science at Oxford" under the collective title 'Early Science at the Royal Society and at Oxford'. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6/ ]
1924-1929?
MS Blundell 13 (4)Anonymous
"Auro.platinotype Prints"
extract from The British Journal of Photography, n.d. [1895], p. 149. (Re. A. W. Dollond's process for gold-toning platinum prints).
[1978-{??}]
1895?
MS Stapleton 36Anonymous
Ad-durrat al-bayda' fi sana'at al-yaqutat al-hamra' fi-l-iksir
Bombay, n.d. [probably 1890s]. (Arabic text). Stapleton Collection
[1948-12]
189-?
file OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: The Radcliffe Observatory Oxford"
photocopy from Country Life, May 10, 1930, pp. 674-680. Presented by Mr John Talbot
[2000-34]
1930
LE Anonymous
Ein Wolgegrindtes Kunnstreichs Sumari Buchlin aller Sonen Uhr
Getruct zu Strasburg durch Heinrichen Vogtherzen Anno 1539. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1539
LE oversizeAnonymous
Lo stampatore a chi legge
Essendo capitata una lettera, in cui si mostra quanto per la vita civile l'Oriuolo Oltramontano piu comodo resta………. A L Sig. N.N. a Modena. Spine states: Lettera Sopra L'Orivolo Oltramontano, 1759. Date inside states: Firenze, 31Augusto 1759. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1759
LE oversizeAnonymous
Spiegazioni, e Tavole relative all' orologio d'Oltremonte detto volgarmente alla francese, ed all' uso del medesimo nelle irrigazioni
in Milano, 1786. Spine states: Spiegazioni et orologio Oltremonti, 1786. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1786
LE Anonymous
"Determinacion de la Hora con un anteojo portatil de pasos, en coincidencia aproximada con el meridiano"
offprint or extract from Revista de Ciencias, vol. XXI no. 8, n.d., pp. 429-444 [incomplete]. Bound with and shelved under Ormond Stone, "On the Extra-Meridian Determination …". Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
LE pamphletAnonymous
"Un orologio solare universale indipendente dalla meridiana"
in La Civilta Cattolica, anno trigesimoterzo series XI vol. X no. 768, June 17, 1882, p. 720. [Title taken from p. 718]. Filed under Civilta. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1882
LE Anonymous
Price List of Sun-dials
n.p., n.d. (Catalogue - seven pages). Bound in volume marked 'Sundials - Price Lists' on spine and shelved under Sundials. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
[n.d.]
file D (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of 'Kepler's Dream' by John Lear from the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday 10 June 1965.
[Unknown]
1965
file G (Stack)Anonymous
Doctors and Heredity: Lord Horder's Proposal, Special Study of Eugenics
Article from the Morning Post, Thursday 19 October, 1933.
[Unknown]
1933
file G (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of The Fasciculo di Medicina, a facsimile reproduction of text and illustrations with an English translation, introduction and notes by Charles Singer. Offprint from the Times Literary Supplement, Thursday, February 11, 1926.
[Unknown]
1926
file I (Stack)Anonymous
Cuming Museum
Article in Readers' and Visitors' Handbook, Southwark Public Libraries and Cuming Museum, 1924.
[Unknown]
1924
file L (Stack)Anonymous
Livingstonia: Central Africa
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"A Report of the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society in Northampton, from its Institution, Nov. 11, 1743, to the general Meeting, Nov. 5, 1745" and "Explanation of the Dial, Fig. III"
Extract from the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XVI, August 1746, pp. 475-478 and Plate V. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1746
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"On a Sun-Dial"
Extract from New Monthly Magazine, Vol.XX, no. LXXXII, October [inscription says November] 1827, pp. 352-358. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1827
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"Curious Dial"
Extract from The Mirror, November 21, 1829, pp. 345-347. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1829
MS Evans 120Anonymous
"Thoughts and By-Thoughts…On Sundials"
Extract from an unknown periodical, [c. 1886], pp. 662-665. In Scrapbook 'Sundials, Misc. Cuttings'.
[Unknown]
1886?
file OXF - MHSAnonymous
Review
Review of 'Historic Instruments for the Advancement of Science' by R. T. Gunther, Oxford, 1925. Review in The Museums Journal, Volume 24, No. 12, June 1925.
[Unknown]
1925
file P (Stack)Anonymous
The Biologist's World
Extract from The Times, Thursday September 2nd, 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
file P (Stack)Anonymous
Sir E. Poulton's Address
Adress to the British Association. Extract from The Times, [Septemb]er 2, 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
file Q (Beeson)Anonymous
Ten-Year Triumph for Clock Expert
Article from the Oxford Mail, 5th July 1983.
[1988-52]
1983
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Sir William Crookes
Reprinted from 'Representative Subjects of the King', Dod's Peerage Publishers, with additions to February, 1917.
[Unknown]
1917
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 1
Containing an account of such physical, anatomical, chymical, mechanical, astronomical, optical, or other mathematical and philosophical experiments and observations as have lately come to the publishers hands. As also an account of some books of this kind lately published. London: printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, 1679. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1679
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 2.
London: printed for Moses Pitt, at the Angel in St Paul's Church-yard, 1681. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1681
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 5.
London: Printed for Richard Chitwel, printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-yard, 1682. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Collections: Numb[er] 6.
London: Printed for Richard Chitwel, printer to the Royal Society, at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-yard, 1682. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Transactions Numb[er] 81.
London: Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, 1672. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1672
U (Stack)Anonymous
Philosophical Transactions Numb[er] 144.
Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the University, and are to be sold by Hen. Rogers at the Sign of the Bible in Westminster Hall, Sam. Smith at the Princes-Armes in S. Pauls Church-yard and by Hen. Clements Bookseller in Oxford. 1682/3 (two thirds). Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1682?
U (Stack)Anonymous
The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of The Country Mouse and the City-Mouse
Much Malice mingled with a little wit. Hind.Pan. Nec uult Panthera domari. Quae Genus. London: Printed for W. Davis, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
U (Stack)Anonymous
The Rehearsal, as it is now Acted at the Theatre-Royal
The Fifth Edition with Amendments and large Additions by the Author. London: Printed for Thomas Dring, and sold by John Newton under the King's Head Tavern over against the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet Street, 1687. Bound with and shelved under Hooke, A Description of Helioscopes. Gunther Loan Collection
[1940-6]
1687
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1964
Graz: Leykam Verlag, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1965
Graz: Leykam Verlag, n.d.
[1964-272]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1967
Graz: Leykam Verlag, n.d.
[1966-349]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1966
Graz: Leykam Verlag, n.d.
[1965-247]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1962
Graz: n.d.
[1980-100]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1961
Graz: n.d.
[1961-9]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Alter Bauernkalender fur das Gemeinjahr 1955
Graz: n.d.
[1960-58]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Der Neue Linzer Bote: Kalender fur das Jahr nach Christi Beburt 1966
Linz: J. Wimmer RG, n.d.
[1965-248]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Der Neue Linzer Bote: Kalender fur das Jahr nach Christi Beburt 1964
Linz: J. Wimmer RG, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
CAL (Stack)Anonymous
Der Neue Linzer Bote: Kalender fur das Jahr nach Christi Beburt 1968
Linz: J. Wimmer RG, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur le Sieur Gilbert Gonin Pere
Artiste, Auteur du beau Noir de Teinture, reconnu pour etre le seul et unique en France et chez l'Etranger, et sans imitation. Paris: C-F. Patris, n.d.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Dr. Mervyn Gordon, 80
Extract from the British Medical Journal No. 4772, June 21, 1952, page 1350.
[Unknown]
1952
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Profile: Professor D. C. Hodgkin
No publication details.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Fred Hoyle
Photocopy of the dust jacket of Sir Fred Hoyle's 1950 book of his 3rd Programme Talks.
[Unknown]
1950
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Overdruk uit Acta et Agenda 8-36
[1976-54]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice sur M. Victor Jacquemont Voyageur-Naturaliste du Museum
Extrait des Nouvelles Annales du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, t. II, p. 36o et suiv.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Notice Historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. de Monsigny
No publication details. Together with a leaflet of a speech to the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts on the announcement of the funeral.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Eloge de M. Joseph Noel, Docteur en Medecine
Prononce par le Professeur Flamant, dans la seance publique de rentree du [11 novembre] 1808. Strasbourg: L'Ecole de Medecine, 1808.
[Unknwon]
1808
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Review
Review of 'Sir William Osler' by Harvey Cushing in an unknown newspaper from 1925, p. 20.
[Unknown]
1925
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Walpoliana
London: n.p. 1781.
[Unknown]
1781
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
Obituary
of S. A. Kinnier Wilson; extract from The Lancet, May 22, 1937.
[Unknown]
1937
file Q (Priestley)Anonymous
The Discoverer of Oxygen
Photocopy of an article from the Illustrated London News, August 8, 1874.
[Unknown]
1874
file S (Stack)Anonymous
The Joule Museum, Salford
Reprinted from Nature, Vol. 168, p. 721, October 27, 1951.
[Unknown]
1951
file T (Stack)Anonymous
A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes: with a Declaration of the most Plentifull, Easie, and Speedy use thereof in both kinds of Trigonometry, as also in all Mathmaticall Calculations
Invented and published in Latine by that Honourable Lord John Napier, Baron of Marchiston, and translated into English by the late learned and famous Mathematician, Edward Wright. With an addition of the Instrumentall Table to finde the part Proportionall, intended by the translator, and described in the end of the booke by Henry Brigs Geometry reader at Gresham-House in London. All perused and approved by the Author, and published since the death of the Translator. London: Simon Waterson, 1618. Reprint of the original.
[1961-34]
1618
file U (Stack)Anonymous
"Early Science in Oxford; The Merton School of Astronomy; The Evans Collection of Scientific Instruments"
Articles in The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. XXXIII no. 9, 1922-1923. (Consists of three notes referring to Gunther's book and related matters).
[Unknown]
1922
file U (Stack)Anonymous
Johnson's Improved Orrery
Article in the English Mechanic and Mirror of Science Vol. VIII, No. 187, Friday, October 23 1868.
[Unknown]
1868
file E (Stack)Anonymous
The First Collection of Antique Microscopes Ever
Extract from The Illustrated London News, Feb. 14, 1925.
[Unknown]
1925
file V (Stack)Anonymous
"Early Pennsylvania Ironmaking: Fascinating Forerunner of World's Largest Iron and Steel Industry"
in Foote Prints, 38(1), 1970, pp. 3-12.
[unknown]
1970
file V (Stack)Anonymous
Up, up and away we go! Help Oxford's Balloon Appeal Take off.
Oxford Mail February 14th 1984, p. 6.
[1988-53]
1984
file W (Stack)Anonymous
"Double Centenary of Antide Janvier's Birth"
in Horological Journal, July 1951, pp. 469-470.
[1969-203/1]
1951
file X (Stack)Anonymous
"The Royal Polytechnic Society, Cornwall"
in Nature, April 25th 1931
[unknown]
1931
file X (Stack)Anonymous
The Ray Society: its History and Aims
Pamphlet.
[unknown]
[n.d.]
OXF (Stack)Anonymous
"Oxford University Sketches"
[s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]. Bound with John Marriott Davenport, "Oxford, in Reference to Laws and Lawyers". Spine title: "Miscellaneous Oxford Pamphlets".
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
B (Stack)Anonymous
The Handbook of Turning: containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various Plates of Chucks, Tools, & Instruments; and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them
London: Saunders & Otley, 1852. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/]
1852
B (Stack)Anonymous
The Handbook of Turning: containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various Plates of Chucks, Tools, & Instruments; and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them
London: Saunders & Otley, 1859. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/]
1859
file Q (Stack)Anonymous
"Willebrord Snell: He Transformed Ancient Guesses into Definite Law"
in Educational Focus, September 1937, pp. 14-15, 25
[Unknown]
1937
file N (Stack)Anonymous
Laboratory Equipment & Appliances: Automatic Tissue Processing Machine
in Laboratory Practice, February 1954
[Unknown]
1954
N (Cooper)Anonymous
Jehior or The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed. To the Honour of God, the love of our Neighbour, and to the Comfort and Joy of the Children and Wisdom.
London: Printed by T.R. and N.T. for Will. Cooper, [1673]. Bound with Cooper, The Philosophical Epitaph. Taylor Loan Collection.
[Unknown]
1673
P (Stack)Anonymous
GEO?O??KA. De re rustica selectorum libri XX : Graeci, Constantino quidem Caesari nuncupati, ac iam non libris, sed thesauris annumerandi / Io. Alexandri Brassicani opera in lucem editi. Vna cum rerum, quae in hisce tractantur, diligentissimo indice. Item, Aristotelis De plantis libri duo Graeci, nuper ad interitu liberati, ac studiosorum usui hac primum editione restituti.
Basileae: Analomasi Robertou tou Cheimerinou, 1539. NUC pre-1956: a compilation by an unknown writer of agricultural information from various sources, chiefly from the writings of Cassianus Bassus (5th or 6th cent.); the compilation was made at the behest of the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and is hence sometimes wrongly ascribed to him, as also sometimes to Cassianus Bassus, equally wrongly. Parallel title and preliminaries in Latin; text in Greek only. Preliminary dedication by Simon Grynaeus. Printer's device on verso of final leaf. Printer's name and date of publication from colophon. Colophon in Greek (p.551): [Etypothe en Basileia, analomasi Robertou tou Cheimerinou, 1539]. Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]8 a-z8 A-L8 M4. Woodcut initials.
[Unknown]
1539
F (Stack)Anonymous
"Lens Facts for Amateurs"
in The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1914, pp. 535-560.
[1978-697]
1914
MAR (Stack - oversize) altAnonymous
Draft History of GEC
Unpublished and unedited typescript. 1983. Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
[2004-159/62]
[n.d.]
file G (Stack)Anonymous
Various extracts from nineteenth century works on leeches and blood-letting
Photocopies/typescript.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file R (Stack)Anonymous
Science simplified: and its elementary principles demonstrated by two hundred diagrams, with concise explanations
London: James Reynolds, [18-?].
[Unknown]
18--?
file Q (Florey)Anonymous
"Sir H.H. Dale : Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society" [obituary]
From Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society 3(4), 1968. Presented by G.L'E. Turner.
[2007-80]
1968
V (Stack)Anonymous
General engineering workshop practice : a guide to the principles and practice of workshop procedure
[Rev. ed.]. London : Odhams Press, [1951]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-134]
1951
file D (Stone)Anonymous
"A Portrait-Painter Who Studied the Moon"
extract from The Illustrated London News, October 18, 1930, pp. 673-674 and I-III (colour insert). Extracted from an article by E. J. Stone ... . [An illustrated article purporting to be extracted from Stone's 1896 paper but in fact quite different, except that it quotes Russell's letter at length, as in Stone's paper]. Another copy in MS Radcliffe.
[Unknown]
1930
CAL (Royal)Anonymous
The royal Kalendar ... for the year 1772
London : printed for J. Almon ... [et al.], [1772]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-293]
1772
CAL (Royal)Anonymous
The Royal kalendar, and court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies, for the year 1826
London : printed for William March & Son ... [et al.], [1826]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-306]
1826
CAL (Royal)Anonymous
The Royal kalendar, and court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies, for the year 1838
London : printed for Suttaby & Co. ... [et al.], [1838]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-309]
1838
S (Stack)Anonymous
An easy and pleasant introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy
"By a fellow of the Royal Society" "The second edition. To this new edition an appendix is added, to render the book more useful to schools." London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1772. Millburn bequest.
[2007-312]
1772
CAL (Edinburgh)Anonymous
The Edinburgh almanack and Scots register for 1800, being the fourth after leap year
Edinburgh : printed by David Ramsay, at the Edinburgh Evening Courant office, and sold by the booksellers, [1800]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-366]
1800
CAL (Royal)Anonymous
The Royal kalendar : and court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies, for the year 1820
London : printed for William Stockdale ... [et al.], [1820]. Millburn bequest.
[2007-367]
1820
MS Museum 121Anonymous
"Frederick Soddy"
extract from Les prix Nobel en 1921-1922, [Stockholm, 1923], pp. 128-9. Part of F. M. Brewer's collection of Soddy papers
[1964-95/7]
1923
REF (Stack)Anonymous
Encyclopaedia Britannica : or, A dictionary of arts and sciences...
[Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1968]. Issued in a case, with title on label: "The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-71. A reproduction commemorating the 200th anniversary of the original work." [No case with this copy] Facsimile reprint of the 1st ed., originally published Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771. 3 v. Millburn bequest.
[2007-392]
1968
file Q (Taylor)Anonymous
"Obituary | Dr. F. Sherwood Taylor"
extract from Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol.CIV no.4969, 20 January 1956, p.207.
[Unknown]
1956