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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.

An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals, as also of the sea, rivers, and springs, with an account of the universal deluge, and of the effects that it had upon the earth.
In sphaeram Ioannes de Sacro Bosco.
Title printed in red and black., Numerous paging errors., Woodcut illus. (some full-page) and diagrams; illus. of astronomical globe on t.p. repeated on p. 24., American reference: p. 134 (map) and p. 135., Side notes., Initials; tail piece., Text and side notes within double line borders., Includes index., Backer, II, 1212-1213., Shaaber, British authors printed abroad in languages other than English, to 1641, no. 440., Lalande, Bibliographie astronomique 1781-1802, p. 144., Houzeau, Vade-mecum de l'astronome, sect. 62, no. 658.
Trattato dell'vso et della fabbrica dell'astrolabio.
Di F. Egnatio Danti ... con l'aggivnta del planisferio del Roias ..., Title vignette (coat of arms of the Medici)., Historiated initials., Numbering of pages [1]-16 a mix of pages and leaves.
Elementa universae matheseos
T.I. Continens geometriam planam. Arithmeticam vulgarem. Geometriam solidorum. Trigonometriam planam, & sphæricam. -- T. II. Continens algebram finitam. -- T. III. Continens sectionum conicarum elementa nova quadam methodo concinnata & Dissertationem de transformatione locorum geometricorum, ubi de continuitatis lege, ac de quibusdam infiniti mysteriis., Title to v. 1 in red and black.
An astronomicall description of the late comet : from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall prognosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hieroglyphicks.
By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks., Title page illustration; headpieces and initials., A variant of the edition with the imprint: London, printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone. 1618., Signatures: A-F⁴ G² (G2 blank)., The last leaf is blank., Errata p. [8].
Opera Bücher und Schrifften : so viel deren zur Handt gebracht : vnd vor wenig Jahren
mit vnd ausz ihren glaubwürdigen eigener hangeschriebenen [sic] Originalien collacioniert vergliechen, verbessert vnd durch Ioannem Hvservm Brisgoivm in iehen vnterschiedliche Theil, in Truck gegeben ; Jetzt von newem mit Vleisz ubersehen, auch mit etlichen biszhero vnbekandten Tractaten gemehrt vnd vmbmehrer Bequemligkent millen ; in zwen vnterschiedliche Tomos vnd Theil gebracht ; deren Begriff vnd Ordnung ; nach der Dorzede zu finden ; sampt bender Theilen vleiszigen vnd voll. kommenen Registern., At head of title: Avreoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi des Edlen Hochge lehrten/Fürtrefflichsten/Weitberumbtesten Philosophi vnd Medici., Second part has separate t.p., Signatures: *⁶ a-i⁶ k-t⁶ v⁶ x-z⁶ A-I⁶ K-T⁶ V⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁶ Kk-Tt⁶ Vv⁶ Xx-Zz⁶ AA-II⁶ KK-TT⁶ VV⁶ XX-ZZ⁶ AAa-EEe⁶ FFf⁸ (:)⁴ a-i⁶ k-u⁶ x-z⁶ A-I⁶ K-T⁶ V⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁶ Kk-Nn⁶., Tail-pieces., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes bibliographical references and indexes., German and Latin.
Ratio ponderum libræ et simbellæ : in qua quid è Lotharii Sarsii libra astronomica, quidque è Galilei Galilei Simbellatore, de cometis statuendum sit, collatis utriusque rationum momentis, philosophorum arbitrio proponitur
auctore eodem Lothario Sarsio sigensano., Written as an answer to Galileo's Il Saggiatore, the title of which is burlesqued as Simbellatore (i.e. Zimbellatore)., Lothario Sarsio sigensano is an anagram of Horatio Grassio salonensi., Includes errata., Signatures: [sec.]⁴ A-T⁴., Head- and tail-pieces., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nouae gnomonices libri quinque
Unpublished autograph manuscript on dialing, with numerous illustrations, by the celebrated Italian polymath Bernardino Baldi., Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallae abbate, autore., Statement of responsibility corrected by author with different pen and ink to: Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallenesis ecclesiae abbate autore., Holograph., Date from last page.
Ptolemaei mathematic constructionis liber primus grce & latine editus.
Addit explicationes aliquot locorum ab Erasmo Rheinholt Salueldensi.
La pratica di prospettiva del Cavaliere Lorenzo Sirigatti al Ser[enissi]mo Ferdinando medici Grandvca di Toscana.
The versos of the plates are printed in letterpress., Signatures: A⁴ + 65 plates., Fully deckled engraved title page, retaining its original size., With errata on verso of leaf A4., Half title page for book 2, which is numbered as plate 44., Full page colophon for book 1., Continuous pagination throughout text., In slipcase., Includes index.
Prodigioso volcan de fuego.
Purchased in memory of Marcia Goodman, first librarian of the History of Science Collections., Italian translation of the original Spanish edition of 1638, entitled Prodigioso volcan de fuego, que exhala en medio del mar Oceanom enfrente de la Isla San Miguel, una de las Terceras, y nueva Isla que ha formado. Tuvo principio en tres de Iulio deste presente año de 1638., Describes the appearance of a submarine volcano in the Açores, which was preceded by tremors, and resulted in the death of large numbers of fish.