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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.

A discovery of a new world, or, A discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither. Unto which is added, A discourse concerning a new planet,
By John Wilkins., "A discourse concerning a new planet" has separate title page., Side notes., Numerous pagination errors., Includes bibliographical references.
Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observationibus aliorum, et propriis nouisque theorematibus, problematibus, ac tabulis promotam, in tres tomos distributam.
No more published., "Chronicon dvplex astronomrvm, vel astrologorvm, cosmographorvm, avt polyhistirvm, qui astronomica, vel cosmographica propius attigerunt. I. pars. Ordine temporum constructa. Pars II. Ordine alphabetico et ampliori ervditione digesta": v. 1, p. xxvi-xlvii., "Epitome genealogiae Grimaldae gentis": v. 2, p. [i]-ix.
A discovery of a new world, or, A discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither. Unto which is added, A discourse concerning a new planet,
By John Wilkins., "A discourse concerning a new planet" has separate title page., Side notes., Numerous pagination errors., Includes bibliographical references.
Christophori Clavii, bambergensis, ... In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarivs.
A compendious system of astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures ... also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris and a vocabulary of the terms of science used in the lectures.
Sphaera mundi.
Manuscript notes in margins and on inserted leaves.
Sphaera mundi.
Cichi Esculani cum textu.--Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem.--Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.--Theodosij De speris.--Michaelis Scoti.--Qõnes reuerẽdissimi dñi Petri de Aliaco [et]c.--Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.--Tractatus de sphera solida.--Tractatus de sphera Campani.--Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem.--Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio.--Textus theorice [Georgii Purbachii] cũ expõne Joãnis Baptiste Capuani.--Ptolomeus De speculis., Includes Sacro Bosco's Sphere and various commentaries on it, as well as other works on the sphere., Originally edited by Hieronymus de Nuciarellis., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶ (2G6 blank), Double columns., Initials; side notes., Woodcut illustration of armillary sphere on leaf 4b., Printer's mark (Kristeller 286) on leaf 253b [i.e. 232], Numbers 181-200 omitted in foliation., Leaf 97 incorrectly numbered 81/, 92 as 192., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, col. 447-449., NUC pre-56, NS 0014920., Thorndike, L. Sphere of Sacrobosco, p. 343., Lacy Collection bookplate, cop. 1., Manuscript notes in margins, cop. 2., Some initials hand colored; gilded initial on leaf 201, cop. 2., Copy 2 imperfect: lacks t.p. The printed dates on line 3, leaf 2a, "Anno dñi. 1506," and the last line of leaf 3a, "M.D.VII.," of Bartolomeo Vespucci's oration have been erased (leaf 2a) or cut out (leaf 3a) and subsequently added in pencil. According to Thorndike (History of Magic, V, p. 164), this oration was delivered in Padua in 1506, in Ferrara in 1507, and published in 1508. Colophon date of "1484" is probably false ("1518" added in pencil beneath colophon). No references found for this edition with a 1484 imprint date (Proctor, BM 15th cent., NUC pre-56, Goff, Hain). This date also conflicts with the dates on leaves 2a and 3a. In addition, the heirs of Octavianus Scotus (named in the colophon) did not begin publishing until 1516 (cf. Norton, F. J. Italian printers 1501-1520). Thorndike calls the Venice 1518 edition a new and superior compilation, and does not mention a prior imprint of this edition.
Astronomia nova aitiologetos [romanized] : sev physica coelestis, tradita commentariis de motibvs stell Martis, ex observationibus G. V. Tychonis Brahe, jussu & sumptibus Rvdolphi II ... plurimum annorum pertinaci studio elaborata Prag ...
Joanne Keplero., References: Caspar, M. Bibl. Kepleriana. Munchen, 1936, no. 31; Dibner, Heralds, no. 5.
Poeticon astronomicon.
Printed in black and red., Ed. by Jacobus Sentinus and J.L. Santritter., Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *9062. Brit. Mus. Cat. (xv cent.) V, p. 286 (I A. 20520) (variation) Sander. Livre a fig. ital., 3472. Goff (rev.), H 560.
Libra astronomica ac philosophica, qva Galilaei Galilaei opiniones de cometis a Mario Gvidvcio in Florentina Academia expositæ
atque in lucem nuper editæ, examinantur a Lothario Sarsio [pseud.] Sigensano., First ed. of Cinti, D. Bibliotheca Galileiana, p. 139., Title page within typograpic border., Title vignette., Initials, tail piece., Side notes., Errata: p. 72., Cinti, no. 64., Carli and Favaro, 81.
Sphaera mundi.
Cichi Esculani cum textu.--Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem.--Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.--Theodosij De speris.--Michaelis Scoti.--Qõnes reuerẽdissimi dñi Petri de Aliaco [et]c.--Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.--Tractatus de sphera solida.--Tractatus de sphera Campani.--Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem.--Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio.--Textus theorice [Georgii Purbachii] cũ expõne Joãnis Baptiste Capuani.--Ptolomeus De speculis., Includes Sacro Bosco's Sphere and various commentaries on it, as well as other works on the sphere., Originally edited by Hieronymus de Nuciarellis., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶ (2G6 blank), Double columns., Initials; side notes., Woodcut illustration of armillary sphere on leaf 4b., Printer's mark (Kristeller 286) on leaf 253b [i.e. 232], Numbers 181-200 omitted in foliation., Leaf 97 incorrectly numbered 81/, 92 as 192., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, col. 447-449., NUC pre-56, NS 0014920., Thorndike, L. Sphere of Sacrobosco, p. 343., Lacy Collection bookplate, cop. 1., Manuscript notes in margins, cop. 2., Some initials hand colored; gilded initial on leaf 201, cop. 2., Copy 2 imperfect: lacks t.p. The printed dates on line 3, leaf 2a, "Anno dñi. 1506," and the last line of leaf 3a, "M.D.VII.," of Bartolomeo Vespucci's oration have been erased (leaf 2a) or cut out (leaf 3a) and subsequently added in pencil. According to Thorndike (History of Magic, V, p. 164), this oration was delivered in Padua in 1506, in Ferrara in 1507, and published in 1508. Colophon date of "1484" is probably false ("1518" added in pencil beneath colophon). No references found for this edition with a 1484 imprint date (Proctor, BM 15th cent., NUC pre-56, Goff, Hain). This date also conflicts with the dates on leaves 2a and 3a. In addition, the heirs of Octavianus Scotus (named in the colophon) did not begin publishing until 1516 (cf. Norton, F. J. Italian printers 1501-1520). Thorndike calls the Venice 1518 edition a new and superior compilation, and does not mention a prior imprint of this edition.
Primo volume dell'vso et fabbrica dell'astrolabio, et de planisferio.
Di maestro Egnatio Danti., Title vignette (coat of arms of the Medici), Initials., Printer's mark on recto of last leaf., The "Istromenti astronomici" described, include the "Astrolabio armiilare" and other instruments of Ptolemaeus, and the "Diottra d'Hipparco.", First edition published, Firenze, Giunti, 1569. A projected second volume was never published., "Anemografia di maestro Egnatio Danti ... In dichiarazione delle anemoscopio, instrumento mostratore de'venti: tradotto di latino in vulgare, da m. Pietroantonio Cattani": p. 251-272.