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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v. Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemi libro III, cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud. medici oxoniensis speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. A
Elements.
Title from: Incipit leaf [1]b., Books 1-13 are by Euclid; book 14 is by Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 by a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent.). Cf. Dict. of Scientific Biog.; Oxford Classical Dict., 2nd ed., p. 413., Leaf 137b colophon: Opus elementorũ Euclidis Megarensis in geometriã artẽ in id quo[que] Campani p[re]spicacissimi cõmentationes finũit ..., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., 46 lines to a full page., Leaf [138] blank., Leaf a2: initial and border on 3 sides illuminated; title printed in red.
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara.
Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung by H. Billingsley ... Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions of the best mathematiciens ... With a ... preface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scieces, what they are, and wherunto commodius: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies greatly missed., Engraved t.p., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Portrait of the printer, J. Daye, above the imprint on last page., "The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464.
Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare.
Bound with the author's Difesa di Galileo. Venetia, 1607.
Elements.
Title from: Incipit leaf [1]b., Books 1-13 are by Euclid; book 14 is by Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 by a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent.). Cf. Dict. of Scientific Biog.; Oxford Classical Dict., 2nd ed., p. 413., Leaf 137b colophon: Opus elementorũ Euclidis Megarensis in geometriã artẽ in id quo[que] Campani p[re]spicacissimi cõmentationes finũit ..., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., 46 lines to a full page., Leaf [138] blank., Leaf a2: initial and border on 3 sides illuminated; title printed in red.
Tractatus De sphæra, De spiritalibus, et De geometria practica
Handwritten and hand illustrated manuscript of the lectures of professor Orazio Grassi, who taught astronomy and mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano, which was written by one of his students., ex. R.P. Horatio Grassio, Societatis Iesu., "In Collegio Romano ex Bdo. P. Horatio Grassio. Societatis Iesu Die ii Iuni, 1623"--P. [56]., Holograph in black ink with hand drawn illustrations also in black ink., Title in red and black in triple border., Text is divided into four sections with caption titles., Sections on geometry and hydraulics have problems sets illustrated with ink sketch diagrams or landscapes., There is a maximum of twenty-three lines of text per page and blank pages show the use of a mechanical device or blind rule to assist the writer in making even and consistent lines., In slipcase.
Opera
Archimedis Syracvsani philosophi et mathematici ingeniosissimi, per Nicolaum Tartaleam ... multis erroribus emendata ..., Imprint from colophon.
Elements.
avthore Ioanne Schevbelio ..., Wrongly attributed to Eucleides of Megara. Cf. Britannica, 1959., Signatures: a⁴ A-Pp⁴ Qq⁶., Imprint date from colophon., Printer's mark on t.p. and on last p., Page 315 misnumbered 351; numerous other errors in pagination., "Brevis regvlarvm algebrae descriptio, vna cvm demonstrationibvs geometricis, avtore Ioanne Schevbelio": p. [1]-76.
Nicolai Raymari Ursi dithmarsi Fundamentum astronomicum : id est, Nova doctrina sinuum et triangulorum, eaque absolutissima et perfectissima, eiusque usus in astronomica calculatione & observatione ...
"Cui adiunctae sunt: I. hypotheses nouae ac verae motuum corporum mundanorum. II. Extructio Canonis finuum, vulgaris quidem, sed solitâ viâ facilior. III. Sectio anguli datâ ratione, seu in quotlibet partes. IV. Quadratio circuli demonstrabili ratione, eiusque demonstratio. V. Solutio triangulorum vsitatiorum nouâ ac facillimâ ratione. VI. Solutio plerorumque triangulorum per solam prosthaphaeresin. VII. Eiusdem prosthaphaereseos apodixis, causa, ac demonstratio. Omnibus seculis problemata sanè desideratissima, aliaq[ue] priùs nec audita nec anteà visa paradoxa quàm plurima.", Title vignette., Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁴.
Tractatvs de proportionvm instrvmento
quod merito compendium vniuersae geometriae dixeris, autore Galiaeo Galilaei ... Ex italica lingua latine conuersus, adiectis notis, quibus & artificiosa instrumenti fabrica. & vsus vlterior exponitur., First edition, 1906, has title: Le operazioni del compasso geometrico et militare., Translation by Matthias Bernegger of Le operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare., "In tractatum de proportionum instrumento, notationes Mathis Berneggeri ...", p. 55-104.
Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi : in artem geometrie incipit quã foelicissime.
Title from: Incipit leaf [1]b., Books 1-13 are by Euclid; book 14 is by Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 by a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent.). Cf. Dict. of Scientific Biog.; Oxford Classical Dict., 2nd ed., p. 413., Leaf 137b colophon: Opus elementorũ Euclidis Megarensis in geometriã artẽ in id quo[que] Campani p[re]spicacissimi cõmentationes finũit ..., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., 46 lines to a full page., Leaf [138] blank., Leaf a2: initial and border on 3 sides illuminated; title printed in red.
Nicolai Raymari Ursi dithmarsi Fundamentum astronomicum : id est, Nova doctrina sinuum et triangulorum, eaque absolutissima et perfectissima, eiusque usus in astronomica calculatione & observatione ...
"Cui adiunctae sunt: I. hypotheses nouae ac verae motuum corporum mundanorum. II. Extructio Canonis finuum, vulgaris quidem, sed solitâ viâ facilior. III. Sectio anguli datâ ratione, seu in quotlibet partes. IV. Quadratio circuli demonstrabili ratione, eiusque demonstratio. V. Solutio triangulorum vsitatiorum nouâ ac facillimâ ratione. VI. Solutio plerorumque triangulorum per solam prosthaphaeresin. VII. Eiusdem prosthaphaereseos apodixis, causa, ac demonstratio. Omnibus seculis problemata sanè desideratissima, aliaq[ue] priùs nec audita nec anteà visa paradoxa quàm plurima.", Title vignette., Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁴.