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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.

Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Polemaei Pelusiensis. IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut vulgo vocant, quadripartitae constructionis, libros commentaria ... Nunc primum in lucem aedita. Praeterea, eiusdem Hier. Cardani Geniturarum XII ... exempla. Atque alia
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Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis. De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova. Opus posthumum
ab authoris fratre collectum pridem & dispositum, nunc ex duobus mss. codicibus editum. Ex museio viri perillustris Guilielmi Boswelli., Title vignette: printer's device., Edited by Isaac Gruterus.
De lateribvs et angvlis triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum, tum sphæricorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemæi demonstrationes intelligendas, tum uero ad alia multa
scriptus à clarissimo & doctissimo uiro d. Nicolao Copernico Toronensi. Additus est Canon semissium subtensarum rectarum linearum in circulo., Signatures: A-F⁴ G⁶., Edited by G. J. Rhäticus., Forms part of the first book of his De revolutionibus orbium caelestium., Title within woodcut border., Initials.
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.
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.
Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Polemaei Pelusiensis. IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut vulgo vocant, quadripartitae constructionis, libros commentaria ... Nunc primum in lucem aedita. Praeterea, eiusdem Hier. Cardani Geniturarum XII ... exempla. Atque alia
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The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things.
v. 1. The two first books, Concerning the Deluge, and Concerning Paradise.--v. 2. The two last books, Concerning the burning of the world, and Concerning the new heavens and new earth., Engraved half-titles., Dedication signed: Thomas Burnet., In four books; second and fourth book each have special t.-p., Published first in Latin, with title: Telluris theoria sacra, 1681-89., "Review of the Theory of the earth," with special title-page and separate paging, bound at end of [v. 2]
Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare.
Bound with the author's Difesa di Galileo. Venetia, 1607.
De cometis libelli tres. I. Astronomicvs, theoremata continens de motu cometarum ... qui annis 1607. & 1618. conspecti sunt ... II. Physicvs, continens physiologiam cometarum nouam ... III. Astrologicvs, de significationibus cometarum annorum 1607. & 1618
Avtore Iohanne Keplero., Parts 2 and 3 have separate title-pages; part 3 dated 1620 on t.p. and 1619 on colophon., The comet of 1607 was later called Halley's comet., Errors in pagination: p. 109-110 repeated; 6 unnumbered pages follow p. 98, and 5 unnumbered pages follow p. 110., Signatures: *⁴ , A-T⁴ (T4 blank) .
Cosmographia Petri Apiani
per Gemmam Frisivm apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicū insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoq[ue]: locis aucta. Additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmæ Frisii., Colophon: Excusum Antuerpiæ opera Aeg. Diesthemij. Anno à Christo humanæ salutis authore nato, 1545., On verso of last leaf, device (no. 2) of Grégoire de Bonte., Signatures: A-H, K-S⁴; sig. I reserved for map of the world., Leaves signed [Aiii]-[Siiii] are numbered 1-66., Title vignette; initials. Fol. 31-48 in double columns., Revolving diagrams on verso of l. 8 and 11, and on recto of l. 28 and 49., Libellus de locorum describendorvm ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: l. 51-57., Vsvs annvli astronomici. Gemma Frisio ... avtore: l. 58-64., For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'œuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. no. 36.
Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs, a Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit.
Trattato del radio latino, istrvmento givstissimo & facile piu d'ogn' altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo, come in terra. Il qvale oltre alle operationi proprie sue fa anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. To
Inventato dall' ill.mo et eccell.mo signor Latino Orsini., "Scritto gia dall' autore dall' istrumento ... con alcune mie annotationi."--Prefatory note "A' lettori. Frate Egnatio Danti.", Title vignette (type ornament)., Initials., Side notes., Errata: p. [7] first group., Manuscript notes in margins., In ms. on t.p.: "Cavazza"., Riccardi I, 393/8., Boffito, p. 92, no. 36.