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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.

Atlas coelestis
By the late Reverend Mr. John Flamsteed, regius professor of astronomy at Greenwich., Engr. title vignette, head and tail pieces.
Tavola perpetua per l'anno secondo dopo il bisestile : del mezzo giorno, della mezza notte, e del levare del sole per la città di Lucca, formata secondo la sua altezza del polo di gradi 43. e 52.
dall'abate Gio: Francesco Giusti ; secondo l'orologio italiano., Consists entirely of tables., Title vignette.
Traité des poisons tirés de règimes minéral, végétal et animal.
abridged and partly translated from the French of M.P. Orfila ; by Joseph G. Nancrede., Abridgement of the original English translation of John Augustine Waller published in London, 1815-1817, under the same title., Gift of Margaret Shoemaker Hill in memory of her father Harold A. Shoemaker., Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Erucarum Ortus, Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis in qua Origo Pabulum...
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.
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.
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.
R. P. Athanasii Kircheri e Societate Jesu. Iter extaticum coeleste : quo mundi opificium, id est, Coelestis expansi, siderumq[ue] tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumq[ue] compositio et structura, ab infimo telluris globo, u
Signatures: pi¹ )(³ )()(⁴ )()()(⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Tttt⁴ Uuuu²., First ed. of the Iter extaticum coeleste appeared in 1656 under title: Itinerarium extaticum., Added engraved title page with title: Iter exstaticum Kircherianum, prælusionibus & scholijs illustratum, schematibusq[ue] exornatum à P. Gasp. Schotto, Societatis Jesu, 1660., Head and tail pieces; initials; side notes., Royal crest on the verso of the title page., Page 144 misnumbered 244, 498 as 988, 543 as 545., "Iter extaticum II" (the Iter extaticum terrestre ...): p. [513]-689., Errata: p. [17-18] (3rd group)., In ms. on t.p.: "Seminarij Carolini Scietatis Jesu Heidelbergæ 1774.", Includes bibliographical references and index.
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu
ex P. Matthaei Riccii eiusdem Societatis commentariis, libri V ad S.D.N. Paulum V. in quibus Sinensis Regni mores, leges atque instituta, & nouae illius Ecclesia difficillima primordia accuratè & summa fide describuntur ; auctore P. Nicolao Trigautio Belga ex eadem Societate., Trigault's translation from the Italian manuscript original of Ricci's diary, to which Trigault added other Ricci materials and a description of Ricci's death and burial; for further description of the contents, see the introduction to the English ed. translated by L.J. Gallagher., Variant states: in some copies, p. 628 is misnumbered "608" and leaf Aq3 is missigned "Q3.", Place and name of printer from colophon., Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-4L⁴., Engraved, illustrated title page by Jacques de Fornazeris., Woodcuts: head- and tail-pieces, ornamental and historiated initials., Printed side notes., Printing errors: pages 626-627 misnumbered 606-607., Last leaf blank., Includes index.
Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del cimento sotto la protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia.
Title vignette: device of the Accademia del cimento, with motto., Title in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials., Verso of prelim. leaf 6: "Reimprimatur, Neapoli: die 26. mensis Aprilis 1701.", Licenses at end are dated 18 settembre, and 5, 7 ottobre, XI octobris 1667.