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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.

Gli arcani delle stelle intorno a i più notabili euenti nelle cose del mondo per l'anno MDCXLIX. Discorso astrologico.
Date of publication from BLC and Riccardi., Dedication dated: 16 December, 1648., Title vignette; initials., BLC, v. 54, p. 201., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, I, column 266.
The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements
I. Introduction and books I, II.--II. Books III-IX.--III. Books X-XIII and appendix., tr. from the text of Heiberg, with introduction and commentary by T.L. Heath.
De lateribvs et angvlis triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum, tum sphæricorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemæi demonstrationes intelligendas, tum uero ad alia multa
scriptus à clarissimo & doctissimo uiro d. Nicolao Copernico Toronensi. Additus est Canon semissium subtensarum rectarum linearum in circulo., Signatures: A-F⁴ G⁶., Edited by G. J. Rhäticus., Forms part of the first book of his De revolutionibus orbium caelestium., Title within woodcut border., Initials.
Prose de' signori accademici Gelati di Bologna ...
Discorso sopra le giostre, ed i tornei / Berlingiero Gessi -- Ristretto del trattato dell'arme delle famiglie intitolato l'Araldo / Gasparo Bombaci -- Dell'imprese accademiche lettera discorsiua / Francesco Carmeni -- Della filosofia morale / Alberto Caprara -- Perche nelle cantilene si adoperi la quinta diminuita, e la quarta superflua e non questa diminuita e quella superflua : come altres`i, per qual ragione si rigetti ogni sorte d'interuallo, o sia superfluo, o sia diminuito dalla Ottaua / Battista Sanuti Pellicani -- Cagioni fisiche degli effetti simpatici, ed antipatici / Ercolagostino Berò -- Che ogni scrittore illustrar dee l'idioma natiuo & anche arricchirlo talora con alcune forme giudiciosamente portate dal Latino / Giouanfrancesco Bonomi -- Della tragedia / Innocenzo Maria Fiorauanti -- Dell'isopo di Salomone / Ouidio Montalbani -- La politica, e la ragion di stato vnitamente con istorici tratti abbozzate / Alessandro Barbieri -- Il marmo augustale, in cui dichiarandosi vna antica iscrizione si ragiona copiosamente delle Terme, Bagni, Esercizi, e Giuochi degli antichi Romani / Giouambattista Capponi -- Delle sette de'filosofi, e del genio di filosofare / Antonio Felice Marsili -- Della musica / Girolamo Desideri -- Del metter' in carta / Angelmichele Guastauillani -- Sopra la sparizione d'alcune stelle, & altre nouità celesti / Geminiano Montanari., pubblicate sotto il principato accademico del Sig co. Valerio Zani., Edited by G.B. Capponi., Each contribution has author's emblem., P. 161-168 numbered on one side only., Library copy imperfect: p. 393-400 bound before p. 385., Signatures: A-V⁴ X⁸ Y-3H⁴., Engraved t.p.; head- and tail-pieces., Handwritten notes throughout text., Gift of James G. Harlow., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lettere di Galileo Galilei al principe Federigo Cesi : prese dalla raccolta d'altre lettere originali scritte al medesimo dagli Accademici Lincei.
Caption title.
Flora; overo, Cultura di fiori
... Distinta in quattro libri e trasportata dalla lingua latina nell'italiana da Lodovico Aureli Perugino., Added t.-p. engraved.
Qi qi tu shuo
"One interesting book in the History of Science Collections, Johann Schreck’s Ensei kiki zusetsu rokusai (Diagrams and Explanations of Wonderful Machines of the Far West, 1830), is an engineering textbook written in Chinese by a friend of Galileo’s who accompanied him during his early telescopic discoveries. That book was originally printed in China as Qi qi tu shuo in 1627. This edition, printed in Japan, contains more than 170 woodcut illustrations. Johann Schreck composed Wonderful Machines of the Far West in a joint effort with Wang Cheng, a Chinese collaborator. Many of the machines depicted in the work are found in the pages of European books such as Agostino Ramelli, Le diverse et artificiose machine (Paris, 1588)." History of Science Online, Kerry Magruder, http://kvmagruder.net/hsci/12-Asian/2-2-Schreck.html, [Deng Yuhan kou shu ; Wang Zheng yi hui]., On double leaves, oriental style, in case., Translation., [鄧 玉函 口述 ; 王徵譯繪].
Aristarchi De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber
cum Pappi Alexandrini explicationibus quibusdam ; a' Federico Commandino vrbinate in latinum conuersus, ac commentarijs illustratus., "Cum priuilegio pont. max. in annos X.", Title vignette: publisher's device. Initials.
Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observationibus aliorum, et propriis nouisque theorematibus, problematibus, ac tabulis promotam, in tres tomos distributam.
No more published., "Chronicon dvplex astronomrvm, vel astrologorvm, cosmographorvm, avt polyhistirvm, qui astronomica, vel cosmographica propius attigerunt. I. pars. Ordine temporum constructa. Pars II. Ordine alphabetico et ampliori ervditione digesta": v. 1, p. xxvi-xlvii., "Epitome genealogiae Grimaldae gentis": v. 2, p. [i]-ix.
Elements.
Title from: Incipit leaf [1]b., Books 1-13 are by Euclid; book 14 is by Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 by a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent.). Cf. Dict. of Scientific Biog.; Oxford Classical Dict., 2nd ed., p. 413., Leaf 137b colophon: Opus elementorũ Euclidis Megarensis in geometriã artẽ in id quo[que] Campani p[re]spicacissimi cõmentationes finũit ..., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., 46 lines to a full page., Leaf [138] blank., Leaf a2: initial and border on 3 sides illuminated; title printed in red.
Abbildung und Beschreibung deß wunderwürdigen unvergleichlichen Cometen : der erstmals zu Anfang deß Wintermonats vor Aufgang der Sonnen erschienen, und anjetzt nach derselben Untergang sich entsetzlich sehen lässet.
Illustration of town's people viewing the Great Comet of 1680, which was the first comet to be discovered by telescope and the comet used by Isaac Newton to test Kepler's laws of planetary motion., Variant of broadsheet printed by Schollenberger in Nuremberg in 1680., Mounted on late nineteenth-century thick paper., Stamp on mounting paper: Sammlung Hans Hopf.
Iordanus Brunus Nolanus De speciervm scrvtinio et lampade combinatoria Raymvndi Lvllii Doctoris Heremitæ omniscii : propè modumque diuini.
Text in italics., According to Salvestrini, sheets ²B1-H4 are a re-issue of Bruno's De lampade combinatoria Lulliana, Wittenberg, 1587., Signatures: A-B⁸ ²B-G⁸ H⁴ (C4 and G2 missigned C2 and H2)., Title vignette; initials., Manuscript notes in French on fly-leaf opposite t.p., DeGolyer Collection bookplate., Armorial bookplate (Duke of Sussex?) on inside front cover., With: Bruno, Giordano. Iordanvs Brvnvs Nolanvs De progressv et lampade ventoria logicorvm. [Wittenberg : Z. Crato], 1587.