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Are you ready for more 17th-18th century adventures in our Maddison Collection? Let’s get stuck in!<\/p>\n

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Illustration from ‘Traittez des barom\u00e8tres, thermom\u00e8tres, et notiom\u00e8tres : ou hygrom\u00e8tres’ by Joachim d’Alence, 1688, Amsterdam. (Maddison Collection 2A5, F10456500)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Typescript note stating that Robert Boyle owned this book! ‘Traittez des barom\u00e8tres, thermom\u00e8tres, et notiom\u00e8tres : ou hygrom\u00e8tres’ by Joachim d’Alence, 1688, Amsterdam. (Maddison Collection 2A5, F10456500)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Manuscript note confirming that Robert Boyle owned this book! ‘Traittez des barom\u00e8tres, thermom\u00e8tres, et notiom\u00e8tres : ou hygrom\u00e8tres’ by Joachim d’Alence, 1688, Amsterdam. (Maddison Collection 2A5, F10456500)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Title page for ‘Chimia : in artis formam redacta ubi praeter methodum addiscendi … chimicas facilimam, disquisitio curata de … praeparatione, auri potabilis instituitur’ by Zacharias Brendel, 1671, Leiden. (Maddison Collection 2A16, F10466900)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Illustration from ‘Chimia : in artis formam redacta ubi praeter methodum addiscendi … chimicas facilimam, disquisitio curata de … praeparatione, auri potabilis instituitur’ by Zacharias Brendel, 1671, Leiden. (Maddison Collection 2A16, F10466900)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Illustration from ‘Des getreuen Eckharts entlauffener Chymicus : … der Laboranten und Process-Kr\u00e4mer Bossheit und Betr\u00fcgerey …’ by Johann Christoph Ettner, 1697, Augsberg and Leipzig. (Maddison Collection 2A24, F10610300)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Diagram from ‘The art of distillation : or, a treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations … furnaces & vessels … experiments and curiosities …anatomy of gold and silver’ by John French, 1653, London. (Maddison Collection 2A25, F10505800)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Diagram from ‘The art of distillation : or, a treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations … furnaces & vessels … experiments and curiosities …anatomy of gold and silver’ by John French, 1653, London. (Maddison Collection 2A25, F10505800)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Diagram from ‘The art of distillation : or, a treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations … furnaces & vessels … experiments and curiosities …anatomy of gold and silver’ by John French, 1653, London. (Maddison Collection 2A25, F10505800)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Diagram<\/a>

Diagram from ‘The art of distillation : or, a treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations … furnaces & vessels … experiments and curiosities …anatomy of gold and silver’ by John French, 1653, London. (Maddison Collection 2A25, F10505800)<\/p><\/div>\n

Like what you see here? Books from the Maddison Collection can be requested through LibrarySearch<\/a> (for internal University of Kent members only) or by contacting us<\/a> (for everyone).<\/p>\n

This blog post is part three of an ongoing summer series exploring our Maddison Collection; more in depth posts will be coming soon. See\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for part one and here<\/a> for part two!<\/em><\/p>\n