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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.

De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes, maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati, adiectis earvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis
Leonharto Fvchsio ... autore ... Accessit ... ijs succincta admodum uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio. Vna cum quadruplici indice, quorum primus quidem stirpium nomenclaturas graecas, alter latinas, tertius officinis seplasiariorum & herbarijs usitatas, quartus germanicas continebit., Col. title vignette.
Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v. Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemi libro III, cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud. medici oxoniensis speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. A
Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Polemaei Pelusiensis. IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut vulgo vocant, quadripartitae constructionis, libros commentaria ... Nunc primum in lucem aedita. Praeterea, eiusdem Hier. Cardani Geniturarum XII ... exempla. Atque alia
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L'atmosphère; météorologie populaire;
ouvrage contenant quinze planches tirées en chromotypographie, deuz cartes en couleur et trois cent sept figures insérées dans le texte., Published also under titles: L'atmosphère : descriptions des grands phénomènes de la nature; and L'atmosphère et les grands phénomènes de la nature., "Appendice": p. [787]-804.
A theatre of politicall flying-insects. Wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described.
Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject. By Samuel Purchas.
A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles empl
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio primum a r. p. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso auctore perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam, de aeris pondere circa terram; de virtut
Added t.p. engraved.
Flora; overo, Cultura di fiori
... Distinta in quattro libri e trasportata dalla lingua latina nell'italiana da Lodovico Aureli Perugino., Added t.-p. engraved.
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara.
Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung by H. Billingsley ... Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions of the best mathematiciens ... With a ... preface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scieces, what they are, and wherunto commodius: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies greatly missed., Engraved t.p., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Portrait of the printer, J. Daye, above the imprint on last page., "The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464.
Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Polemaei Pelusiensis. IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut vulgo vocant, quadripartitae constructionis, libros commentaria ... Nunc primum in lucem aedita. Praeterea, eiusdem Hier. Cardani Geniturarum XII ... exempla. Atque alia
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Opticks; or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light.
By Sir Isaac Newton, knt.
Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions and colours of light.
Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.