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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.

Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis, germanicis appellationibus ita ob
Printer's mark on t.-p., Publisher from colophon.
Versuch über die Kennzeichen der Edelsteine und deren vortheilhaftesten Schnitt : zum Theile nach der Beschreibung des Museums des Herrn de Drée ... nebst einem Verzeichnisse und einer Abbildung der ausgewählten Edelstein-Sammlung des Herrn I.F. von de
von I.A.F. Fladung.
Habes solertissime lector in hoc codice libros Metheoro[rum] Aristotelis Stragirite peripathetico[rum] principis cũ cõmentarijs fidelissimi expositoris Gaietani de Thienis nouiter ĩpressos : ac mẽdis erroribusq[ue] purgatos : Tractatum de reactione, et Tr
Imprint from colophon., Leaves printed on both sides; nos. 55-60 omitted., Printers device (last page)., Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁶ AA-GG⁸., Text in double columns., Initials; side notes., Manuscript notations throughout.
De la sfera del mondo. Libri quattro in lingua tos cana: i quali non per via di traduttione, ne a qual si voglia particolare scrittore obligati: ma parte da i migliori raccogliendo; e parte di nuovo producendo; contengano in se tutto quel ch'intorno a tal
Several errors in paging., Colophon: In Venetia per Giouanantonio & Dominico fratelli de Volpini da Castelgiufredo, ad instantia de Andrea Ariuabeno, tien per insegna il Pozzo, del mese de aprile, M.D.XL., Author's name in dedication: Alisandro Piccolomini altrimenti Lo stordito intronato., "De le stelle fisse" has special t.-p.
Opera Bücher und Schrifften : so viel deren zur Handt gebracht : vnd vor wenig Jahren
mit vnd ausz ihren glaubwürdigen eigener hangeschriebenen [sic] Originalien collacioniert vergliechen, verbessert vnd durch Ioannem Hvservm Brisgoivm in iehen vnterschiedliche Theil, in Truck gegeben ; Jetzt von newem mit Vleisz ubersehen, auch mit etlichen biszhero vnbekandten Tractaten gemehrt vnd vmbmehrer Bequemligkent millen ; in zwen vnterschiedliche Tomos vnd Theil gebracht ; deren Begriff vnd Ordnung ; nach der Dorzede zu finden ; sampt bender Theilen vleiszigen vnd voll. kommenen Registern., At head of title: Avreoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi des Edlen Hochge lehrten/Fürtrefflichsten/Weitberumbtesten Philosophi vnd Medici., Second part has separate t.p., Signatures: *⁶ a-i⁶ k-t⁶ v⁶ x-z⁶ A-I⁶ K-T⁶ V⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁶ Kk-Tt⁶ Vv⁶ Xx-Zz⁶ AA-II⁶ KK-TT⁶ VV⁶ XX-ZZ⁶ AAa-EEe⁶ FFf⁸ (:)⁴ a-i⁶ k-u⁶ x-z⁶ A-I⁶ K-T⁶ V⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁶ Kk-Nn⁶., Tail-pieces., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes bibliographical references and indexes., German and Latin.
Ten plates comprising a plan, sections and views, representing the changes produced on the coast of east Devon, between Axmouth and Lyme Regis, by the subsidence of the land and elevation of the bottom of the sea, on the 26th December, 1839, and 3rd of Fe
from drawings by W. Dawson, W.D. Conybeare and Mrs. Buckland ; with a geological memoir by W.D. Conybeare ; the whole revised by Professor Buckland.
The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners.
By Oliver Byrne.
Geestelyke natuurkunde
uitgegeven in de Latynsche taale door Jan Jacb. Scheuchzer ; het gansche werk bestaat in acht deelen, waar van elk een verzelt is met vyftig zinryke in't koper gesneden printbladen door J. And. Pfeffel ; in't Nederduits vertaald door Florentius H.J. Van Halen., Subtitle varies slightly; v. 2-5, Versierd met byschriften in poëzy, door G. Tysens; v. 6, door L. Paludanus.
A treatise on the science of muscular action
by John Pugh., An t.p. engraved.
Uranographia sive astrorum descriptio viginti tabulis oeneis incisa ex recentissimis et absolutissimis astronomorum observationibus
Joannis Elerti Bode., "Sumtus commodante illustrissima astronomiae patrona generosissima equite Megalopolitano Friderico de Hahn.", Printed on 20 double leaves.
Erster[-vierdter] Tractat der mechanischen Instrumenten Levini Hulsii ...
v. 1. Gründtlicher ... Bericht dess ... Planimetra -- v. 2. ... Unterricht dess newen büchsen Quadrants -- v. 3. Beschreibung ... dess Jobst Burgi Proportional-cirkels -- v. 4. Gründtliche Beschreibung dess ... Instruments viatorii., Each volume has separate t.p.; each t.p. illustrated., Imprint varies: v. 1, 1604; v. 2, 4, Durch Wolffgang Richtern, in Verlegung des Authorn, 1603, 1605; v. 3, In Verlegung Leuini Hulsii wittib. 1604; v. 4, imprint date 1615. Cf. Poggendorff and Brit. Mus. Cat., Date on t.p. of v. 4 misprinted as MDV instead of MDCV., Two leaves of plates are printed on both sides., Bibliography: v. 1, p. 6-11.
New England primer.
Handwritten on p. [2] of cover: 1747., Handwritten on p. [3] of cover: Hackett.