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A mackerel seller at Billingsgate

refusing the Lord Mayor's entreaty to renounce the Jewish faith in order to become an Alderman

Each specimen of foraminifera [single-celled marine organisms with shells] is inscribed with De Montford's 'genre' number and a brief caption

spines to the viewer

Photographic gun designed by Etienne Jules Marey Size:Standard: 6 x 4in A mackerel seller at BillingsgatePhotographic gun designed by Etienne Jules Marey, 1882 (1956). Marey (1830 1904) was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement, which led to the invention of cinematography. In 1881, he invented the photographic gun and later he devised the first chronophotograph camera. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential by

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