Encyclopaedia Londinensis Collection

Dynamometer
864161 Dynamometer; (add.info.: Dynamometer, an instrument for measuring mechanical force or power, designed by the French civil engineer Edme Regnier (1751-1825)

A mortar firing partridges
864346 A mortar firing partridges'; (add.info.: A mortar firing partridges, showing the barrel in cross-section. A large bomb was placed in the centre chamber)

St Pancras new Church, London (engraving)
586807 St Pancras new Church, London (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: St Pancras new Church, London; engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis)

Metastasio (engraving)
812465 Metastasio (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist. Engraved by R)

The Bear Garden and Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London (coloured engraving)
584236 The Bear Garden and Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Bear Garden and Globe Theatre)

Michel de Montaigne (engraving)
812492 Michel de Montaigne (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Michel de Montaigne, French writer, philosopher and essayist)

Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Creator: Unknown
Cinchona. The Caribbean Jesuits Bark, 1801. Cinchona, source of the anti-malarial remedy quinine, from Encyclopaedia Londinensis, published by John Wilkes c1796-1828

From alchemy to chemistry, 19th century
From alchemy to chemistry, 19th-century artwork. Alchemy is represented by the middle-aged man in the foreground, carrying out a distillation with an alembic

Chemistry equipment, early 19th century C013 / 5268
Chemical equipment. Early 19th-century artwork depicting a variety of devices and instruments used in chemistry experiments

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