1. Islandora Repository
  2. History of Science Collection

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.

Details
Description (dc)

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.

Notes of nine lectures on the Alps, glaciers, glacial theory delivered by Professor Agassiz at the Masonic Temple, Boston, 1847
J.J.D., Holograph., Pen and ink drawings throughout text.
Péking : histoire et description
par Alph. Favier, Prêtre de la Congregation de la Mission, dite de Saint-Lazare, Missionnaire Apostolique, Vicaire Général de Péking, etc., etc., etc., "660 gravures anciennes et nouvelles reproduites ou exécutées par des artistes indigènes d'après les plus précieux documents ; 124 phototypies, 24 collographies hors texte.", P. 550-552 misnumbered 560-562., Includes bibliographical references (p. xii) and index.
Instructions concerning erecting of a library, presented to my lord, the President De Mesme
by Gabriel Naudeus ...; and now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire., Title within borders., Head ornament., Ornamental initial., Running title., Signatures: A-G., Translation of Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque.
Dissertatio philosophico-astronomica de motu terrae et phaenomenis inde oriudis, quam consentiente amplissimo philosophorum ordine pro loco in eodem rite capessendo die Nov. MDCCLVI. publico eruditorum examini subiiciet praeses M. Ioannes Ernestus Basiliu
The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. Extinct monsters of the ancient earth. With thirty plates, copied from skeletons in the author's collection of fossil organic remains, (deposited
By Thomas Hawkins ...
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis : quà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi.
Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio -- De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis -- De idololatria ex Occidente primùm in Persidem, Indiam ac deindè in ultimas Orientis, Tartariæ, Chinæ, Japponiæ regiones successivâ propagatione introducta -- China curiosis naturæ & artis miraculis illustrata -- De architectonica cæterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium -- De Sinensium literatura., Added t.-p., engraved., "Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end., Signatures: *-**(superscript 4), A-Z(superscript 4), Aa-Hh(superscript 4)., Includes index., Text in Arabic, Latin, and Sanskrit.
Veterum Romanorum religio, castrametatio, disciplina militaris, ut & balne, ex antiquis numismatibus & lapidibus demonstrata
auctore Guilielmo du Choul e Gallico in Latinum translata., Added engraved t.p. dated 1685., Many errors in paging.
Theory of the earth, with proofs and illustrations. In four parts.
The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man : with an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients : wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended : to which is added,
being the works of Edward Tyson ... ; adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. van der Gucht., Originally published as Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris (London, 1699)., "This edition would seem to be made up of the sheets of the 1699 issue with a new title and the addition of 78 p., 8 plates."--Russell., A majority of the plates signed Michael Burghers., Signatures: A² B-O⁴ P², B-H⁴, A-K⁴., Publisher's advertisements: p. [1]-[2] (7th group)., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes bibliographical references.
Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology
by the Rev. William Buckland ...
Chemische Analyse durch Spectralbeobachtungen
von G. Kirchhoff, R. Bunsen., Caption title., Printed in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Bd. 110, p.[161]-189 (1860).
A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake & eruption of mount Ætna, or Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples
by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of severall relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.