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- L'Optiqve et la catoptriqve
- dv Reverend Pere Mersenne Minime ; novvellement mise en lvmiere apres la mort de l'autheur., Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1975. 3 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks of science) s1975 nyun c
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- Plan of proposed roads from Axminster in the County of Devon to Lyme Regis and Charmouth in the county of Dorset.
- Surveyed under the directions of James Green, Civil Engineer, &c. G. Smith, Clerk to the Trustees.
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- A deliniation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland; exhibiting the collieries and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata, illustrated b
- By W. Smith., The first geological map of England and Wales; for description see Annals of science, v. 3, no. 2, p. 190-212., Also includes 6 folded section maps by W. Smith: 1. Geological section from London to Snowdon. London, J. Cary, 1817.- 2. Geological view and section in Essex and Hertfordshire ... [London, 1819]- 3. Geological view and section of Norfolk ... [London, 1819] - 4. Vertical section of strata in Surry dipping northward ... London, J. Cary, 1819.- 5. Section of the strata through Hampshire and Wiltshire to Bath. London, J. Gary, 1819.- 6. Geological view and section through Dorsetshire and Somersetshire to Taunton. London, J. Gary, 1819.
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- Orbis caelestis typus
- Opus a P. Coronelli, min. conventli., serenissimaeque Reipub. Venetae cosmographo, inchoatum, societatis Gallicae Sumptibus, absolutum, Lutetiae Parisiorum ; delin. Arnoldus Deuvez, regiae Acad. Pictor Reg. Chr. ; sculp. I. B. Nolin, calcographus., 24 gores and 2 polar calottes to make up a 42 inch (107 cm.) celestial globe., Gores for Coronelli's Celestial globe were printed in Paris by J. B. Nolin in 1693. This work is part of terrestrial and celestial gores set acquired by Mitchell Library in 1961., Jean Baptiste Nolin, a cartographer, was the engraver to the King of France; Arnold Deuvez painted the Nolin's globe., History of Science Collections map has only 9 gores.
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- Carte de la Turquie d'Asie presque entiere contenant l'Anatolie, la Géorgie, l'Armenie, le Curdistan, l'Alge-zira, l'Irak-Arabi, la Syrie &c.
- projettée et assujettie aux observations celestes par M. Bonne, hydrographe du Roi., "XXI" and "25" printed in top margin., Watermark in lower centre of sheet.
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- Geological map of Durham
- by W. Smith, mineral surveyor., Relief shown by hachures., Title at lower left: A new map of Durham, divided into wards, exhibiting its roads, rivers, parks, &c. / by John Cary, engraver, 1824, i.e. this map appears to be based on Cary's map of Durham with geological detail by William Smith. -- Title on map case: Geological map of Durham; on which are delineated, by colours, the courses and width of the strata wich occasion the varieties of soil; calculated to elucidate the agriculture of the county ... With ms. annotation "W. Smith's" at head of title., Library copy the railways in the south-east of the county have been added later in the manuscript.
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- Auicennae Arabum medicorum principis
- ex Gerardi Cremonensis versione, & Andreae Alpagi Belunensis castigatione ; a Ioanne Costaeo, & Ioanne Paulo Mongio annotationibus iampridem illustratus ; nunc uero ab eodem Costaeo recognitus, & nouis alicubi obseruationibus adauctus ; quibus principum philosophorum, ac medicorum consensus, dissensusq́ue indicantur ; vita ipsius Auicennae ex Sorsano Arabe eius discipulo, à Nicolao Massa Latine scripta, & figuris quibusdam ex priori nostra editione sumptis ; additis nuper etiam librorum Canonis oeconomijs, necnòn Tabulis isagogicis in vniuersam medicinam ex arte, Humain [sic], idest Ioannitii Arabis, per Fabium Paulinum Vtinensem ; cum indicibus quattuor, duobus uocum Arabicarum, altero Gerardi Cremonensis, altero Bellunensis, duobus rerum memorabilium, altero in Auicennae contextu, altero in annotationibus contentarum., Vol. 1 has added engraved t.p.: Auicennae Arabum medicorum principis, Canon medicinae. Quo vniuersa medendi scientia pulcherrima & breui methodo planissimè explicatur. Eiusdem De viribus cordis. [De] remouendis nocumentis in regimine sanitatis. [De] syrupo acetoso. Cantica., "Tabvlae isagogicae in vniversam medicinam. Ex arte Hvmain, idest Ioannitij Arabis. Auctore Fabio Paulino Vtinensi. Collectae, et editae a Fabritio Raspano ..." (v. 1) has special t.p., The general index (v. 3) also has special t.p., "De viribus cordis" is translated by Arnaldus de Villa Nova and "Cantica" by Armegandus Blasii., Vol. 1: [52], 590, 583-982 p.; v. 2: [12], 437, [3] p.; v. 3: [304] p., Microfiche. New Canaan, Conn. : Readex Microprint, [1993]. 48 microfiches. (Landmarks II). s1993 ctun b
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- Parte orientale della China
- dal P.M. Coronelli M.C. cosmografo della serma. rep. di Venetia., "Divisa nelle sue provincie e dedicata al Molto Rev. Padre Antonio Baldigiani della Compagnia di Gesú Professore delle matematiche nell' Università Collegio Romano.", Dedicated to the Jesuit Antonio Baldigiani and decorated with surveying instruments., From: Coronelli's "Corso geografico universale."