CNN — The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have drawn inspiration from the nephew of Sir Isaac Newton's laboratory ...
Old Masters School, 18th Century 18th century Old Master drawing of cherubs with instruments. Ink. Framed no glass. Staining. Sight: 7.25 x 6.75in. Provenance: From the collection of a Mr. Brewer, ...
ALTHOUGH numerous references are found in early British manuscripts to instruments of an elementary kind, chiefly for the determination of time or position, there is little evidence that before the ...
Descriptive catalogue of the physical instruments of the 18th century (including the Collection's Gravesande-Musschenbroek) in the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen (National ...