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UNISA996390042703316 |
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Autore |
Martindale Adam <1623-1686.> |
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The countrey-survey-book: or, Land-meters vade-mecum [[electronic resource] ] : Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerable in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning |
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London, : printed by A.G. and J.P. for R. Clavel, at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1682 |
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Surveying |
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Mathematics |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"An appendix containing XII. problems touching compound interest & annuities" has separate title page with imprint: London, printed in the year M. DC. LXXX. Register and pagination are continuous. |
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UNINA9910781090503321 |
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Autore |
Whorton James C |
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The arsenic century [[electronic resource] ] : how victorian Britain was poisoned at home, work, and play / / Prof James C. Whorton |
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New York, NY, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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1-282-38365-5 |
9786612383656 |
0-19-157344-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 412 pages) : illustrations |
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Arsenic |
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-403 and index. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. 'Such an Instrument of Death and Agony'; 2. 'A New Race of Poisoners'; 3. A New Breed of Detectives; 4. 'The Chief Terror of Poisoners'; 5. A Penn'orth of Poison; 6. 'Sugared Death'; 7. 'The Hue of Death, the Tint of the Grave'; 8. Walls of Death; 9. Physician-Assisted Poisoning; 10. 'A Very Wholesome Poison'; 11. Poison in the Factory and on the Farm; 12. 'Dangers that Lie Wait in the Pint-Pot'; Abbreviations; Notes; Index |
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Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers |
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