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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.

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.
Atlas coelestis
By the late Reverend Mr. John Flamsteed, regius professor of astronomy at Greenwich., Engr. title vignette, head and tail pieces.
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.
Conversations on vegetable physiology : comprehending the elements of botany, with their application to agriculture
by the author of "Conversations on chemistry," "Natural philosophy," &c. &c.
Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
Began with [v. 1], no. 1 (Mar. 6, 1665); ceased with v. 65, pt. 2 (for the year 1775)., Description based on: Vol. 48, pt. 1 (for the year 1753)., Vols. 1-46 also called no. 1-497., Suspended between v. 12 and v. 13., Vols. 1 (1665/66)-70 (1780). 1 v. (includes vols. published under later title)., During suspension of publication: Philosophical collections, were issued.
A letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradlely, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S., to Dr. Edmond Halley, Astronom. Reg. &c., giving an account of a new discovered motion of the fix'd stars.
In: Philosophical transactions / Royal Society of London, v. 35 (Jul.-Dec. 1727, 1728)., Caption title.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals.
By Charles Darwin., Frreman: I, 281 part; II, 1142.
Reliquiae diluvianae; or Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge.
By the Rev. William Buckland.
Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology.
By the late Very Rev. William Buckland., Third edition., "List of Dr. Buckland's appointments and literary titles": v. 1, p. [lxxi]-lxxiii., "List of publications by the Very Rev. Dr. Buckland": v. 1, p. [xxv]-lxxxiii.
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.
v.1. Proceedings of the first expedition, 1826-1830, under the command of Captain P. Parker King.--v.2. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-1836, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy.--Appendix to v.II.--v.3. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, from 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin., Vol. 3 was reissued the same year in separate form.
Astronomical lectures, read in the publick schools at Cambridge
by William Whiston ; Whereunto is added a collection of astronomical tables; being those of Mr. Flamsteed, corrected; Dr. Halley; Monsieur Cassini; and Mr. Street, for the use of young students in the university. And now done into English.
The celestial worlds discover'd: or, Conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets.
Written in Latin by Christianvs Hvygens, and inscrib'd to his brother Constantine Hvygens .