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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.

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.
De lateribvs et angvlis triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum, tum sphæricorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemæi demonstrationes intelligendas, tum uero ad alia multa
scriptus à clarissimo & doctissimo uiro d. Nicolao Copernico Toronensi. Additus est Canon semissium subtensarum rectarum linearum in circulo., Signatures: A-F⁴ G⁶., Edited by G. J. Rhäticus., Forms part of the first book of his De revolutionibus orbium caelestium., Title within woodcut border., Initials.
Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens observationibus aliorum, et propriis nouisque theorematibus, problematibus, ac tabulis promotam, in tres tomos distributam.
No more published., "Chronicon dvplex astronomrvm, vel astrologorvm, cosmographorvm, avt polyhistirvm, qui astronomica, vel cosmographica propius attigerunt. I. pars. Ordine temporum constructa. Pars II. Ordine alphabetico et ampliori ervditione digesta": v. 1, p. xxvi-xlvii., "Epitome genealogiae Grimaldae gentis": v. 2, p. [i]-ix.
Naturhistorische Alpenreise.
Vorgelesen der Naturforschenden gesellschaft in Solothurn., Added t.-p., engr.
Musurgia vniuersalis, siue, Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta : quáa vniuersa sonorum doctrina, & philosophia, musicaeque tam theoricae, quam practicae scientia, summa varietate traditur ; admirandae consoni, & dissoni in mundo, adeáoque vn
Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis e Soc. Iesu presbyteri., Vol. 1: [20], 690 pages, [11] leaves of plates. Vol. 2:462, [38] pages, [11] leaves of plates., Edited by Jacobus Viva, with his letter to the reader (p. [19])., "Superiorum permissu.", Added engraved title page (2 leaves)., Engraved title page of vol. 1 found between pages 584 and 585., Vol. 2 has title abbreviated, with imprint: Romae, Typis Ludouici Grignani, 1650., Super-ex libris: Bibliothec Bignon., Title vignettes; initials; head- and tailpieces., Includes plates (some folded)., Privilege statements, errata, and registers on final two leaves., Includes index., Vellum and calf binding on wood boards with metal clasps.
De cometis libelli tres. I. Astronomicvs, theoremata continens de motu cometarum ... qui annis 1607. & 1618. conspecti sunt ... II. Physicvs, continens physiologiam cometarum nouam ... III. Astrologicvs, de significationibus cometarum annorum 1607. & 1618
Avtore Iohanne Keplero., Parts 2 and 3 have separate title-pages; part 3 dated 1620 on t.p. and 1619 on colophon., The comet of 1607 was later called Halley's comet., Errors in pagination: p. 109-110 repeated; 6 unnumbered pages follow p. 98, and 5 unnumbered pages follow p. 110., Signatures: *⁴ , A-T⁴ (T4 blank) .
Cosmographia Petri Apiani
per Gemmam Frisivm apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicū insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoq[ue]: locis aucta. Additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmæ Frisii., Colophon: Excusum Antuerpiæ opera Aeg. Diesthemij. Anno à Christo humanæ salutis authore nato, 1545., On verso of last leaf, device (no. 2) of Grégoire de Bonte., Signatures: A-H, K-S⁴; sig. I reserved for map of the world., Leaves signed [Aiii]-[Siiii] are numbered 1-66., Title vignette; initials. Fol. 31-48 in double columns., Revolving diagrams on verso of l. 8 and 11, and on recto of l. 28 and 49., Libellus de locorum describendorvm ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: l. 51-57., Vsvs annvli astronomici. Gemma Frisio ... avtore: l. 58-64., For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'œuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. no. 36.
Klaudiou Ptolemaiou harmoniko vivlia iii Klaudii Ptolemi Harmonicorum libri tres.
Ex cod. mss. vndecim, nunc primum grce editus. Johannes Wallis ... recensuit, edidit, versione & notis illustravit, & auctarium adjecit., Title vignette., Appendix: De veterum harmonica ad Hodiernam comparata: p. 281-328.
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics. To which are added, A plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in
By James Ferguson.
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis. Astronomia instavrata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium clestium inscribuntur.
Nunc demum post 75 ab obitu authoris annum integritate su restituta, notisque illustrata, opera & studio d. Nicolai Mvlerii., Title vignette (Publisher's device)
Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei : con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale
di Bvonardo Savi [pseud.], Half-title, illustrated: Sfera del Galileo, con le prattiche di Buonardo Saui., "Il vero compendio della sfera composto del Galilei ... sembra irreparabilmente perduto."--Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana, 1893, pt. 1, v. 1., col. 398.
Completa raccolta di opuscoli, osservazioni, e notizie diverse contenute nei Giornali astrometeorologici dall' anno 1773. sino all' anno 1798.
del fu signor abate Giuseppe Toaldo ... coll' aggiunta di alcune altre sue produzioni meterologiche e pubblicate ed inedite ..., Edited by Domenico Tiato., A projected fifth volume (cf. Avviso at end of v. 4)--was never published., "Elogio di Giuseppe Toaldo scritto da Angelo Fabroni.