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Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical. With some deductions and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis

Power, Henry, 1623-1668 · 1664 · London : T. Roycroft for J. Martin & J. Allestry · 1 picture

Experimental philosophy by Henry Power, printed in London in 1664 by T. Roycroft for J. Martin and J. Allestry, is a natural philosophy treatise addressed to the learned readers of its day, setting out microscopical, mercurial and magnetical experiments. The single picture is a plate of two boxed rows of small ringed circles, some dark-centred, drawn as microscopic observations of particles. A designer might take its strict grid of framed diagrams and plain line-drawn circles as a model for scientific specimen layouts.

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