Hecks
Pictorial Archive of
Nature and Science
EDITED BY J.G. HECK DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK
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For more information on our environmental practices, please visit us online www.doverpublications.com/green Copyright Copyright 1994 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 1994, contains the complete sections Mathematics and Astronomy, Physics and Meteorology, Chemistry, Minerology, and Geology, Botany, Anthropology and Surgery and Technology (176 plates) and the accompanying descriptive contents of the plates from the Iconographic Encyclopdia of Science, Literature, and Art. Systematically Arranged by J. G. Heck.
Translated from the German, with Additions, and Edited by Spencer F. Baird, A.M. M.D., Professor of Natural Sciences in Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Illustrated by Five Hundred Steel Plates, Containing Upwards of Twelve Thousand Engravings, originally published by Rudolph Garrigue, Publisher, New York, in 1851. The table of contents has been slightly rearranged for this edition. DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series.
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Selections] Hecks pictorial archive of natural and science / edited by J.G. Heck. p. cm. (Dover pictorial archive series) A selection of engravings from the 1851 English ed., entitled Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art, which was a translation of J.G. Hecks Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon.
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Hecks
Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science
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Plates 1 and 2 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plates 1 and 2)
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Plate 3 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 3)
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Plate 4 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 4)
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Plate 5 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 5)
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Plate 6 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 6)
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Plate 7 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 7)
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Plate 8 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 8)
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Plate 9 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 9)
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Plate 10 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 10)
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Plate 11 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 11)
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Plate 12 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 12)
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Plate 13 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate)
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Plate 14 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 14)
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Plate 15 (Mathematics and Astronomy, Plate 15)
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Plate 16 (Physics and Meteorology, Plate 1)
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Plate 17 (Physics and Meteorology, Plate 2)
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Plate 18 (Physics and Meteorology, Plate 3)
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Plate 19 (Physics and Meteorology, Plate 4)
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Plate 20 (Physics and Meteorology, Plate 5)
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