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  • Compendium of Colors 1785

    A Compendium of Colors, And other Materials used in the Arts of Design, in their Various Branchers, with Remarks on their Natures and Uses, including The Method of Drawing in Chalk, Crayons, &c. Of Engraving in its several Manners, And of Sculpture, &c. &c., in: The Artist’s Repository and Drawing Magazine… II, London [Charles Taylor] 1785, pp. 1–132.

  • Falloppius 1584

    Gabriel Falloppius, Gabrielis Fallopii Mutinensis, Physici Chirurgici præcclarissimi, in felicissimo Gymnasio Patavino olim rem Anatomicam & Chirurgicam admirabili cum laude profitentis; Opera que adnunc extant omnia, in unum congesta, & in Medicinæ studiosorum gratiam nuncprimum tali ordine excusa: Volumen tam excellens, tantaque Doctrina refertum, ut omnesqui eiusmodi scriptis sese applicuerint, in morbis & dignoscendis & curandis, non parvam gloriam adepturi sint, Francofurti [Andreas Wechelus] 1584.

  • Hill 1751

    John Hill, A History of the Materia Medica. Containing Descriptions of all the Substances used in Medicine; their Origin, their Characters when in Perfection, the Signs of their Decay, their Chymical Analysis, and an Account of their Virtues, and of the several Preparations from them now used in the Shops, London [T. Longman – C. Hitch – L. Hawes – A. Millar – J. and J. Rivington] 1751.

  • Theophrastus – Hill 1746

    Theophrastus – John Hill, Θεοφραστου του Ερεσιου Περι των λιθων βιβλιον. Theophrastus’s History of Stones. With an English Version, and Critical and Philosophical Notes, Including the Modern History of the Gems, &c. described by that Author, and of many other of the Native Fossils. To which are added Two Letters: One to Dr. James Parsons, F. R. S. On the Colours of the Sapphire and Turquoise. And the other to Martin Folkes, Esq; Doctor of Laws, and President of the Royal Society; Upon the Effects of different Menstruums on Copper. Both tending to illustrate the Doctrine of the Gems being coloured by Metalline Particles, London [C. Davis] 1746.

  • Vitruvius – Barbaro 1567

    Vitruvius Pollio – Daniel Barbaro, M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari Electi Patriarchae Aquileinensis; multis aedificiorum, horologiorum, et machinarum descriptionibus, & figuris, unà cum indicibus copiosis, auctis & illustratis, Venetiis [Franciscus Franciscius – Joannes Crugher] 1567.