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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.

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.
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolvtionibvs orbium coelestium. libri VI.
Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quam erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam ex recentibus obsernationibus restitutos; & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quam facillime calculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek], Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribunter. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mvlerii., Many early marginal manuscript notes., "Narratio prima" by G. J. Rhaticus: [18] l. at end.
In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius
Colophon: Venetiiis. MDXCI., Signatures: [dagger]⁸ [2 dagger]⁸ A-2F⁸ 2G¹⁰ [$4 (+2G5) signed; missigning K2 as 'I2']., Title vignette; initials; head piece., Side notes., Page 224 misnumbered 254, 324 as 432. The second '3' on p. 373 is printed backward., Lalande, J. Bibl. astronomique, p. 122., Houzeau & Lancaster, Astronomie (1964 ed.), 2678., Manuscript notes on inside covers and fly-leaf., In ms. on t.p.: "Jacobus Antonius Cottalona".
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolvtionibvs orbium coelestium. libri VI.
Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quam erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam ex recentibus obsernationibus restitutos; & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quam facillime calculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek], Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribunter. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mvlerii., Many early marginal manuscript notes., "Narratio prima" by G. J. Rhaticus: [18] l. at end.
Perspectiva : In qua, qvae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, neruose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant.
Nunc primum in lucem edita opera & studio Johannis Combachii., Bound with the author's Specvla mathematica. Francofvrti, 1614.
Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia, per l'uso, dilucidatione, e fabbrica delle sfere, globi, planisferj astrolabj, e tavole geografiche, e particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle publiche let
dal P. Maestro Vincenzo Coronelli., "Dell' eccellenza inuenzione, e progresso dell' astronomia, discorso del Sig. Carlo Malavista": p. [9]-[16] at front.
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
By Charles Darwin.
Johannes Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae, exhibens fundamenta, quae tam ad novum planè & correctiorem stellarum fixarum catalogum construendum, quàm ad omnium planetarum tabulas corrigendas omnimodè spectant; nec non novas & correctiores tabulas solares, al
Quibus additus est uterque Catalogus stellarum fixarum, tam major ad annum 1660, quàm minor ad annum completum 1700. Accessit corollarii loco Tabula motus lunae libratorii ..., Half-title: J. Hevelii Prodromus astronomiae cum Catalogo fixarum, & Firmamentum Sobiescianum., Added engraved half title on double leaves., "Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia," has special t.p., added engr. t.p. on 2 leaves and separate paging., "Edmundi Halleii Catalogus stellarum australium ... partim correctus, & ad annum Christi MDCC completum reductus à Jo. Hevelio," p. [309]-320., "Joannis Ernesti Schmieden Cenotaphium. Illvstri viro Joanni Hevelio ... sacrandam ad memoriam positvm," with special t.p., p. ℓ. 7-10.
Della vera influenza degli astri, delle stagioni, e mutazioni di tempo, Saggio meteorologico; fondato sopra lunghe osservazioni, ed applicato agli usi dell'agricultura, medicina, nautica, ec.
di Giuseppe Toaldo.
L'atmosphère; météorologie populaire;
ouvrage contenant quinze planches tirées en chromotypographie, deuz cartes en couleur et trois cent sept figures insérées dans le texte., Published also under titles: L'atmosphère : descriptions des grands phénomènes de la nature; and L'atmosphère et les grands phénomènes de la nature., "Appendice": p. [787]-804.
Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes; avec figures:
par m. Lavoisier., Second issue of the first edition. cf. Duveen and Klickstein., Plates engraved by Mme. Lavoisier., Paged continuously (v. 1: xliv, 322 p.; v. 2: viii, [323]-653, [3] p.), Title vignette; head and tail pieces., Duveen, D. I. and Klickstein, H. S. Lavoisier, 154., Errata at end of v. 2., DeGolyer Collection bookplate.
Clavdii Ptolemi Pelvsiensis Alexandrini Omnia, qvae extant, opera, Geographia excepta, quam seorsim quoq[que] hac forma impressimus.
Magn compositionis libri a Georgio Trapezuntio e grco conuersi. [Gavrici addictiones]--Procli Diadochi Hypotyposis astronomicarvm positionum, Georgio Valla Placentino interprete.--Clavdii Ptolemi ... operis libri quatuor, in quibus de iudicijs disseritur, ad Syrum, Ioachimo Camerario interprete.--Cl. Ptolemi Centvm dicta, sive frvctvs librorum suorum.--Inerrantium stellarum significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum e grco translat.