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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 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.
A description of the plan of Peking, the capital of China; sent to the Royal Society by Father Gaubil ...
Translated from the French., Caption title., "XCVI," from the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1758, v. 50.
Observations made by the missionairies at Pekin
Transmitted to the supra-cargoes at Canton, by the Rev. Father Louis Cipolla, of the tribunal of mathematics, and communicated to the Royal Society by the Court of Directors of the East-India Company., Detached from v. 64 of the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.
by L.F. Menabrea., "Article XXIX," from Scientific memoirs, Vol. 3, 1843., Translated, with notes, by Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Byron.