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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.
Elements.
avthore Ioanne Schevbelio ..., Wrongly attributed to Eucleides of Megara. Cf. Britannica, 1959., Signatures: a⁴ A-Pp⁴ Qq⁶., Imprint date from colophon., Printer's mark on t.p. and on last p., Page 315 misnumbered 351; numerous other errors in pagination., "Brevis regvlarvm algebrae descriptio, vna cvm demonstrationibvs geometricis, avtore Ioanne Schevbelio": p. [1]-76.
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.
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis, germanicis appellationibus ita ob
Printer's mark on t.-p., Publisher from colophon.
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis, germanicis appellationibus ita ob
Printer's mark on t.-p., Publisher from colophon.
Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova
complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. Quorum primus noua translatione Pirckheimheri & accessione commentarioli illustrior quàm hactenus fuerit, redditus est. Reliqui cum graeco & alijs uetustis exemplaribus collati, in infinitis feré locis castigatiores facti sunt. Addita sunt insuper scholia ... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaicae, opera Sebastiani Munsteri nouo paratae modo. His adiectae sunt plurimae nouae tabulae ... Vitimo annexum est compendium geographicae descriptionis, in quo uarij gentium & regionum ritus & mores explicantur. Praefixus est quoq uniuerso operi index memorabiliu populorum ciuitatum ... &c. Adiectae sunt huic posteriori editioni nouae quaedam tabulae., "Appendix geographica ... autore Sebastiano Munstero": p. 157-195.
Polyhistor.
Originally published under title: Iulii Solini De situ et memorabilibus orbis capitula. Venice, 1473., Consists of text, by Solinus and Mela, and commentary, by Sebastian Münster and Pedro Juan Oliver (the latter printed in italics)., Printer's device, signed: Palma Ising on t.p. and last page., Colophon: Basileæ apud Michaelem Ising. M. D. XLIII., Signatures: a⁶ [beta]⁴ a-z⁴ 2A-2F⁴ (a1 verso blank)., Initials, side notes., Text in columns., Page 175 misnumbered 157, 191 as 181., Plates (maps) unnumbered., Cf. Wagner, H.R. The cartography of the Northwest coast of America to the year 1800, v. 1: p. 9., Includes index., Contains life of Solinus, by Joannes Camers (p. [3-4], 1st group)., Text by Solinus covers p. [1]-144, 2nd group, 2 folded maps, with preface on p. [20], 1st group; text by Mela covers p. 147-229, with preface on p. [145]-146., Folded map accompanying p. 144 shows territory to the east of Asia marked "Terra incognita", considered to represent the Northwest coast of North America. Wagner (in discussing the 1538 edition), however, questions this opinion and holds that it might represent Japan instead. The text on p. 144 refers to it [in translation] as "... extreme coast, as has been explored in our time by men.", In ms. on t.p.: "Mattei Nevorij Pecciolensis"., Manuscript notations in margins., DeGolyer Collection bookplate., Publisher's name on t.p. marked out., Place of publication and printer in colophon marked out.
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.
Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni Arabis libri septem
nunc primùm editi ; eiusdem liber De crepusculis & nubium ascensionibus ; item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri x / omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti, adiectis etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs, à Federico Risnero., De crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus, the original of which is lost, is probably not by Alhazen but by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʻādh al-Jayyānī; cf. Sabra, A.I. "The authorship of the Liber de crepusculis," Isis, v. 58 (1967) p. 77ff., Title vignette: Episcopius' device; a different device of Episcopius on verso of last leaf., Includes errata., Imprint from colophon: Basileae : Ex Officina Episcopiana, Per Eusebius Episcopium, & Nicolai F. Hæredes, Anno M.D.LXXII, Mense Augusto., Book plate: From the books of A.E.N. da C. Andrade, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Eras. Osuualdi Schreckenfuchsii Commentaria, in Nouas theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii, : quas etiam breuibus tabulis pro eliciendis tùm medijs tùm ueris motibus omnium planetarum, item tabulis coniunctionum & oppositionum ac eclipsium luminarium ad
Contains text of Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum., Publication date from colophon on p. [412]., Signatures as in Adams, except possibly section 2I, apparently complete as 2I⁶., Title vignette., DeGolyer Collection bookplate., With: Schreckenfuchs, Erasmus Oswald. Commentaria, in Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bvsto. [Basileae : Ex Officina H. Petrina, 1569]
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
Illustrations by J. S. van Calcar.
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. qvibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis, germanicis appellationibus ita ob
Printer's mark on t.-p., Publisher from colophon.