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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.

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.
Orbis caelestis typus
Opus a P. Coronelli, min. conventli., serenissimaeque Reipub. Venetae cosmographo, inchoatum, societatis Gallicae Sumptibus, absolutum, Lutetiae Parisiorum ; delin. Arnoldus Deuvez, regiae Acad. Pictor Reg. Chr. ; sculp. I. B. Nolin, calcographus., 24 gores and 2 polar calottes to make up a 42 inch (107 cm.) celestial globe., Gores for Coronelli's Celestial globe were printed in Paris by J. B. Nolin in 1693. This work is part of terrestrial and celestial gores set acquired by Mitchell Library in 1961., Jean Baptiste Nolin, a cartographer, was the engraver to the King of France; Arnold Deuvez painted the Nolin's globe., History of Science Collections map has only 9 gores.
Parte orientale della China
dal P.M. Coronelli M.C. cosmografo della serma. rep. di Venetia., "Divisa nelle sue provincie e dedicata al Molto Rev. Padre Antonio Baldigiani della Compagnia di Gesú Professore delle matematiche nell' Università Collegio Romano.", Dedicated to the Jesuit Antonio Baldigiani and decorated with surveying instruments., From: Coronelli's "Corso geografico universale."