EditorialPsychrometer, Humidity meter of the psychrometer type, with two thermometers in a standard, incomplete. The scale of both thermometers ranges from -12 ? to 44 ? Celsius. One thermometer has a sock around the mercury ball that is made moist. From the di...
EditorialSalzgewinnung_1, Salt is produced from seawater during its evaporation in salt mines, woodcut, p. 441, (Liber duodecimus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae...
EditorialLight Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1795. Dimensions:...
EditorialLight Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1795. Dimensions:...
EditorialLight Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1795. Dimensions:...
EditorialLight Expelling Darkness,-Evaporation of Stygian Exhalations,-or-The Sun of the Constitution, Rising Superior to the Clouds of Opposition. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1795. Dimensions:...
EditorialBell-shaped salt, T. S., London (ca. 1600?1601), 1600/1601, British, London, Silver gilt, H. 8 in. (20.3 cm), Metalwork-Silver, T. S., London (ca. 1600?1601), This bell salt was so named from the overall bell-like profile of the object as well as of ea...
EditorialFox Warrior Bottle, 7th?8th century, Peru, Moche, Ceramic, H.11 5/8 in. (29.46 cm), Ceramics-Containers, The stirrup-spout vessel?the shape of the spout recalls the stirrup on a horse's saddle?was a much favored bottle shape on Peru's northern coast fo...