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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.

The anatomy of a pygmy compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man : with an essay concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the antients : wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkies, and not men, as formerly pretended : to which is added,
being the works of Edward Tyson ... ; adorn'd with copper-plates, engraved by M. van der Gucht., Originally published as Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris (London, 1699)., "This edition would seem to be made up of the sheets of the 1699 issue with a new title and the addition of 78 p., 8 plates."--Russell., A majority of the plates signed Michael Burghers., Signatures: A² B-O⁴ P², B-H⁴, A-K⁴., Publisher's advertisements: p. [1]-[2] (7th group)., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes bibliographical references.
Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis : ducentis lapidum figuratorum, a potiori, insectiformium, prodigiosis imaginibus, exornatæ specimen primum ...
præside ... Joanne Bartholomæo Adamo Beringer ... ; submittit Georgius Ludovicus Hueber ..., Signatures: )(², )(² A-Z², ²A-C²., Head- and tail-pieces; engraved frontispiece., Includes errata., Book plate: Ex Libris Melvin Edward Jahn., Thesis--Würzburg., Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17).
Strata identified by organized fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum.
Bound with the author's Stratigraphical system of organized fossils. London, 1817.
Lettere di Galileo Galilei al principe Federigo Cesi : prese dalla raccolta d'altre lettere originali scritte al medesimo dagli Accademici Lincei.
Caption title.
Opticks; or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light.
By Sir Isaac Newton, knt.
Specimen lithographiae Helveticae curiosae quo lapides ex figuratis helveticis selectissimi aeri incisi sistuntur & describuntur.
Anothomia Mondini nuper optime emẽdata ac sũma diligẽtia ĩpressa.
Colophon: Impresse Venetijs per presbyte ... Bonetum Locatellũ bergomesuz. Mãdato ... sumptibus heredũ nobilis viri d.Octauiani Scoti ... Anno incarnationis òñice.septimo supra millesimũ quinquiesqz centesimum., Printer's device at end.
De historia stirpivm commentarij insignes
adiectis earundem viuis, & ad naturæ imitationem artificiose expressis imaginibus, Leonharto Fuchsio ... autore ... ; triplex item index, prior stirpium Latinas nomenclaturas, alter officinis & vulgò vsitatas, tertius gallicas dabit., Signatures: aa-bb (last leaf blank) a-z A-2H⁸., Portrait of author on verso of t.p., Initials., Side notes., Numerous pagination errors., Includes indexes., Some ill. partially colored., In ms. on t.p.: "Ioannis Baptistae forzani 1602.", Author's name defaced on t.p., Manuscript notations in margins.
De stella nova in pede Serpentarii
et qui sub ejus exortum de novo iniit, trigono igneo. Libellus astronomicis, physicis, metaphysicus, meteorologicis & astrologicis disputationibus ... plenus. Accesserunt I. De stella incognita Cygni: narratio astronomica. II. De Jesv Christi Servatoris vero anno natalitio, consideratio novissim sententi Lavrentii Svslyg Poloni, quatuor annos in usitata epocha desiderantis., Parts [2]-[4] each have special t.-p.; part [1]-[3] paged continuously., Part [3] has imprint: Francofvrti, 1606; part [4] has imprint: Francofvrti, W. Richteri, 1606., Signatures: )?(A-CcDdA-E(E blank)
Francisci Vicomercati mediolanensis, in qvatvor libros Aristotelis Meteorologicorvm commentarii : et eorvndem librorvm e Graeco in Latinvm per evndem conversio : ad Carolvm a Lotharingia Cardinalem.
Signatures: A-2I⁶ A-L⁶., Greek text with Latin translation and commentary., Initials; head pieces., Errata at end., Manuscript note on fly leaf: "Badia No 13563"., Harlow Collection bookplate.
Sphaera mvndi
avtore Rabbi Abrahamo Hispano filio R. Haijæ. Arithmetica sebvndvm [sic] omnes species suas / autore Rabbi Elija Orientali. Qvos libros Osvvaldvs Schreckenfuchsius uertit in linguam latinam, Sebastianus uero Munsterus illustrauit annotationibus., Latin and Hebrew., Caption title (p. 3): "Liber qvalitatis terrae, et figvrae circvlorvm firmamenti ac ordinis motus stellarum ...", Imprint from colophon., Title page in red and black., Marginal notes (printed)., Ornamental initials., Book plate of G. Eybenschütz (front cover); armorial bookstamp of Coll. Brix. Soc. Jesu.
Poemander.
cum commento fratris Hannibalis Rosseli Calabri Ordinis minorvm regvlaris obseruantiæ, theologiæ & philosophiæ, ad S. Bernardinum Cracouiæ professoris, Liber quartus De coelo ..., Signatures: *⁶ A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Qqq⁴ (Qqq[3] verso, and last leaf blank)., Title vignette; initials., The first of the six books published at Cracow from 1584 to 1590. Books 7-10 mentioned in the "Exhortatio" on verso of t.p. never appeared in print. According to Wadding's Scriptores Ordinis minorum (Romae, 1906), the commentary (consisting of a series of treatises enumerated on p. 109-111) includes the Graeco-Latin text of Flussas (F. Foix de Candale. Bvrdigatæ, 1574) The fourth book with the comprehensive sub-title "De coelo" contains passages selected from various treatises of the Poemander in Latin translation (differing from that of Flussas)., Includes index., Imperfect: History of Science Coll. copy missing last leaf., Bookstamp on p. 131, 245, 305, 355, 425: "Biblioteka Krakow ..."., Harlow Collection bookplate.