History of Science Collection

We're excited to introduce the redesigned repository.ou.edu website, launched in October 2023! This redesign is part of a larger improvement plan, with additional changes coming next year.

We invite you take a moment to share your thoughts about the website through a brief 5 minute survey: repository.ou.edu feedback survey.

Your feedback is vital and will help shape the future of repository.ou.edu.

Iordanvs Brvnvs Nolanvs De progressv et lampade venatoria logicorum : ad promptè at[que] copiosè de quocum[que] proposito problemate disputandum.
Text in italics., Place of publication and publisher from NUC pre-56., Title vignette; tail piece; initials., Numerous errors in pagination, including 35 repeated and 62 omitted in numbering., Salvestrini, V. Bibl. di Giordano Bruno, 128., With: Bruno, Giordano. Iordanus Brunus Nolanus De speciervm scrvtinio et lampade combinatoria Raymvndi Lvlli. Pragae, Georgius Nigrinus, 1588.
The story of a boulder : or, Gleanings from the note-book of a field geologist
by Archibald Geikie ..., Stamp on p. [2] of cover: Ãneas G. Gordon, Kettle Manse, Fife.
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis. Astronomia instavrata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium clestium inscribuntur.
Nunc demum post 75 ab obitu authoris annum integritate su restituta, notisque illustrata, opera & studio d. Nicolai Mvlerii., Title vignette (Publisher's device)
La noua scientia de Nicolo Tartaglia, con vna gionta al terzo libro.
First published in Venice, 1537., Imprint from colophon, leaf 32b., Signatures: a⁴ A-H⁴., Illustrated t.p.
Theatrum botanicvm : the theater of plants, or, An herball of a large extent, containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new,
collected by John Parkinson., Includes indexes., Errors in pagination: 132-133 repeated; 142-143, 1653-1662 omitted; p. 311, 314, 608, 729, incorrectly numbered 310, 318, 908, 727; text is continuous.
Mars and its canals
by Percival Lowell.
The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey ... concerning the motion of the heart and blood
William Harvey ; with the preface of Zachariah Wood ; to which is added James de Back his Discourse of the heart., Discourse of the heart has separate pagination and t.p.: The discourse of James De Back, in which he handles the nullitie of spirits, sanguification, the heat of living things ; there is premis'd a speech to the reader ; and annex'd an addition in defence of Harvey's Circulation. London : Printed by Francis Leach, 1653., With: Harvey, William. Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. 1653.
Eis tēn Tetrabiblon tou Ptolemaiou exēgētēs anōnumos = In Clavdii Ptolemæi Qvadripartitvm enarrator ignoti nominis, quem tamen Proclvm fuisse quidam existimant
item Porphuriou philosophou eisagōgē eis tēn apotelesmatikēn to Ptolemaiō ; Porphyrii Philosophi introductio in Ptolemæi opus de effectibus astrorum ; praeterea Hermetis Philosphi De revolvtionibvs natiuitatum libri duo, incerto interprete., The commentaries, or introductions to Tetrabiblon or Quadripartitum by Claudius Ptolemy, attributed to Proclus and Porphyry, were printed in Greek and Latin in Basle, 1559. Cf. W. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology., An Introduction to the Tetrabiblon of Ptolemy is attributed by some to Porphyry, by others to Antiochus., Title in Greek and Latin., Signatures: a-b⁶ A-R⁶ 2A-2E⁶ 2F⁸., Imprint from colophon., Initials; side notes; printer's device on p. [1] at end., Printed in parallel columns in Greek and Latin., Page 207 misnumbered 217 and numerous other pagination errors., Includes index., Errata on p. [23] at the beginning., Bookplate on t.p.: "Bibliothecæ Romagnoli, Cæsenæ Via S. Zenonis".
The moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.
By James Nasmyth, C. E., and James Carpenter, F. R. A. S. ... With twenty-four illustrative plates of lunar objects, phenomena, and scenery; numerous woodcuts, &c.
Hippocratis coi Opera qvae extant Graece et Latine veterum codicum collatione restituta
nouo ordine in quattuor classes digesta, interpretationis Latin emendatione, & scholijs illustrata, a Hieron. Mercvriali., Each volume has special title page., Greek and Latin in parallel columns.
Piscium querelae et vindiciae
exposit a Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero.