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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.

Péking : histoire et description
par Alph. Favier, Prêtre de la Congregation de la Mission, dite de Saint-Lazare, Missionnaire Apostolique, Vicaire Général de Péking, etc., etc., etc., "660 gravures anciennes et nouvelles reproduites ou exécutées par des artistes indigènes d'après les plus précieux documents ; 124 phototypies, 24 collographies hors texte.", P. 550-552 misnumbered 560-562., Includes bibliographical references (p. xii) and index.
United States exploring expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
v. 1-5. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes. 1845 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana. 1849 -- v. 17. Botany : Cryptogamia ; Musci / by William S. Sullivant ; Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman ; Algae / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey ; Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley ; Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey ; ed. by Asa Gray. 1874., under the command of Charles Wilkes., v. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York : G.P. Putnam ; London : Putnam's American Agency, [n.d.]., Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France.", By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. Mr. Wilkes, however, secured copyright on his Narrative of the expedition, under which privilege he published several editions of that part of the reports. Later, also, the authors themselves, or publishers who might be willing to undertake it, were allowed to issue an additional 150 copies of most of the various reports, and under this arrangement, from 100 to 150 copies of most of the volumes were published in addition to the 100 copies provided for by the government. The official edition however was 100 copies only., The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany / by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants / by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology / by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics / by Charles Wilkes., Volumes of unfinished plates--some of them in proof before lettering--are found, without t.p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells., v. 10 book plate: Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis : quà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi.
Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio -- De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis -- De idololatria ex Occidente primùm in Persidem, Indiam ac deindè in ultimas Orientis, Tartariæ, Chinæ, Japponiæ regiones successivâ propagatione introducta -- China curiosis naturæ & artis miraculis illustrata -- De architectonica cæterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium -- De Sinensium literatura., Added t.-p., engraved., "Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end., Signatures: *-**(superscript 4), A-Z(superscript 4), Aa-Hh(superscript 4)., Includes index., Text in Arabic, Latin, and Sanskrit.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Glaser's Beschreibung einer neuerfundenen Studier- und Sparlampe : zu Erhaltung der Augen und bequemen Gebrauch bei einigen andern Nebenabsichten eingerichtet.
Title vignette depicts old man reading in a woodland shelter., Publisher's advertisement: p. [1] (2nd group).
Veterum Romanorum religio, castrametatio, disciplina militaris, ut & balne, ex antiquis numismatibus & lapidibus demonstrata
auctore Guilielmo du Choul e Gallico in Latinum translata., Added engraved t.p. dated 1685., Many errors in paging.
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.
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.
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.
Description of a glass apparatus, for making mineral waters, like those of Pyrmont, Spa, Seltzer, &c., in a few minutes, and with a very little expence : together with the description of some new eudiometers, or instruments for ascertaining the wholsomene
in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Priestley ; by J.H. de Magellan., Handwritten notes on p. 3., Includes bibliographical references., With: De la richesse minérale / M. Héron de Villefosse. Paris : J.B. Sajou, 1811.
Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinum ... Quatuor his suaru[m] Institutionum geometricarum libris ... denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita, emendatius iam in lucem e
Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁶ Q⁴., The illustrations on P6r and Q1r have folded flaps., Printer's device on t.p. and on leaf at end., Several errors in paging., Lib. III contains Dürer's expositions on the construction of letters, with many large woodcut specimens of roman capitals., With: Dürer, Albrecht. Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti ... De urbibus, archibus, castellísque compendis ... Parisiis : C. Wecheli, 1535.