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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.

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.
Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grès rouge ou système Dévonien (old red sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie
par L[ouis] Agassiz.
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.
The true intellectual system of the universe : the first part, wherein, all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated
by R. Cvdworth ..., Many irregularities in paging, including 85-96, and 301-302 omitted and 155-156, 305-306 repeated in numbering., Errata at foot of last page of Contents., No more published., Signatures: A⁴ *² **² ***² B-I⁶ K-U⁶ X-Z⁶ Aa-Ii⁴ Kk-Tt⁴ Uu⁴ Xx-Zz⁴ Aaa-Iii⁴ Kkk-Uuu⁴ Xxx-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Iiii⁴ Kkkk-Uuuu⁴ Xxxx-Zzzz⁴ Aaaaa-Hhhhh⁴ Iiiii⁵ a-i⁴ k⁴ l²., Head-pieces., Book plate: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society MDCCCXLIX : The Library Taunton Castle : Presented by Mr. Ed. Bageboh., "Somershire Archaeological Society : Presented by Edw. Bageboh, Esq., Nov. 1876[?]."--p. [2] of cover., Wing C7471; Gathorne-Hardy & Williams T2., Handwritten note on p. 805., Quotations in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare.
Bound with the author's Difesa di Galileo. Venetia, 1607.
De la generation des vers dans le corps de l'homme : de la nature et des especes de cette maladie : des moyens de s'en preserver & de la guérir
par M. Andry., Statement of responsibility follows the edition statement., Dedicated to Guy Crescent Fagon., Signatures: v. 1: [par.]¹ a⁸ b⁴ c⁸ d² e⁸ f-g⁴ A-Ii⁸⁻⁴ Kk⁶; v. 2: [par.]¹ A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D² E⁸-Pp⁸⁻⁴ Qq⁶ (T2 missigned T1)., Head and tail pieces; initials., Page 583 misnumbered 58., Errata: v. 2, last 3 pages., "Lettres écrites à l'auteur par Mr Hartsoeker, & par Mr Baglivi, sur le sujet des vers," p. [711]-733, 841-850., "Sçavoir si le fréquent usage du tabac abrege la vie. Traduction du latin," p. 810-840., Includes bibliographical references.
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.
La noua scientia de Nicolo Tartaglia, con vna gionta al terzo libro.
First published in Venice, 1537., Imprint from colophon, leaf 32b., Signatures: a⁴ A-H⁴., Illustrated t.p.
Eis tēn Tetrabiblon tou Ptolemaiou exēgētēs anōnumos = In Clavdii Ptolemæi Qvadripartitvm enarrator ignoti nominis, quem tamen Proclvm fuisse quidam existimant
item Porphuriou philosophou eisagōgē eis tēn apotelesmatikēn to Ptolemaiō ; Porphyrii Philosophi introductio in Ptolemæi opus de effectibus astrorum ; praeterea Hermetis Philosphi De revolvtionibvs natiuitatum libri duo, incerto interprete., The commentaries, or introductions to Tetrabiblon or Quadripartitum by Claudius Ptolemy, attributed to Proclus and Porphyry, were printed in Greek and Latin in Basle, 1559. Cf. W. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology., An Introduction to the Tetrabiblon of Ptolemy is attributed by some to Porphyry, by others to Antiochus., Title in Greek and Latin., Signatures: a-b⁶ A-R⁶ 2A-2E⁶ 2F⁸., Imprint from colophon., Initials; side notes; printer's device on p. [1] at end., Printed in parallel columns in Greek and Latin., Page 207 misnumbered 217 and numerous other pagination errors., Includes index., Errata on p. [23] at the beginning., Bookplate on t.p.: "Bibliothecæ Romagnoli, Cæsenæ Via S. Zenonis".
Io. Grammatici Philoponi Alexandrei Commentaria in libros posteriorum analiticorum Aristotelis : denuo maxima diligentia castigata, ac ad Græcorum exemplar longe fidelius quàm antea collata.
Signatures: A-I⁸ K⁴., "Io. Grammatici" in cartouche at head of title page., Title page vignette; head-pieces and initials., Text printed in double columns., Handwritten notes throughout text.
Phytobasanos : sive, Plantarum aliquot historia in qua describuntur diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ
Fabio Columna auctore ; accessit etiam Piscium aliquot, Plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore ..., Title transliterated., The illustrations are full-page etchings by the author, each within type ornament border., Signatures: [paragraph symbol]-[double paragraph symbol]⁴ A-I⁴ K-P⁴ a-d⁴, a⁴., Tail-pieces., Includes errata., Includes bibliographical references and index.