-
-
Recent Posts
- National Holocaust Remembrance Day
- OU Athletics Department enables OU Libraries to acquire manuscript for the Galileo collection
- American Paleontology in 3 minutes – TEDxOU
- The secret of books
- King Richard III at OU
- Isis Bibliography survey
- Digital edition of Darwin’s Origin
- Pseudo-Masha’allah, On the Astrolabe
- History of Science Lib-Guides
- Wallace Online project launched today
Categories
- Book quotes (4)
- Class aids (10)
- Digital projects (26)
- Exhibits and events (42)
- Faculty publications (2)
- Featured book (27)
- Finding aids (3)
- Images recently digitized (15)
- In the news (18)
- Manuscripts, archives, photos (8)
- Named Collections (1)
- Recent acquisitions (15)
- Research tips (20)
- This day in history (3)
- Topical Collections (4)
- Uncategorized (2)
- Who we are (11)
Category Archives: Images recently digitized
Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665)
We have recently made available, in its entirety, high resolution images of the most lavishly-illustrated treatise on the Earth in the 17th century:Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665). (Gallery; cf. two-page spreads.) The range of interests displayed by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) … Continue reading
Posted in Featured book, Images recently digitized
1 Comment
Another Baldi manuscript: The Cronica autograph
Recently we made available a manuscript of an unpublished work on sundials by Bernardino Baldi that had been missing since 1783. The OU History of Science Collections hold a second Baldi manuscript: his autograph copy of Cronica, a 16th-century history … Continue reading
Lost manuscript on sundials
Bernardino Baldi (1553-1617), a celebrated Italian polymath, is known to have written a treatise on sun dials and timekeeping. However, this treatise was never published and, since 1783, it has been considered lost. Now we are happy to announce that … Continue reading
Mars: Earliest detailed sketches
The Collections have recently acquired a rare 1666 first edition of three separately issued broadsides (foglie volante) in which Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini) reported his observations of Mars, including the first detailed sketches of its … Continue reading
Online Galleries
The Online Galleries of the University of Oklahoma Libraries offer 80,000 high resolution images of plates, engravings, portraits, title pages and maps from the holdings of the History of Science Collections. Images are captured at a quality that is easier … Continue reading
Posted in Digital projects, Images recently digitized
8 Comments
Physics Centennial #5: Einstein in Yiddish
This is the 5th post in a series celebrating the centennial of the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy. One unlikely work of Einstein is a Yiddish translation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published in 1921. This … Continue reading
Physics Centennial #3: Memories of Niels Bohr
This is the 3rd post in a series celebrating the centennial of the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy. Jens Rud Nielsen (1894-1979), a student of Niels Bohr, penned this manuscript held by the History of Science Collections … Continue reading
Posted in Images recently digitized, In the news
3 Comments
Physics Centennial #2: 1957 OU Lecture by Niels Bohr
This is the 2nd post in a series celebrating the centennial of the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy. Jens Rud Nielsen (1894-1979), who joined the OU Physics Department in 1924, was an undergraduate student of Niels Bohr … Continue reading
Darwin’s first and rarest work: The Zoology of the Beagle
The voyage of H.M.S. Beagle from December 1831 through October 1836 became one of the most famous expeditions of modern times. Originally planned as a survey of southern South America and some islands in the Pacific, the voyage became a … Continue reading
Earliest published microscopic study
Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610) created an international sensation as the first published record of observations made with a telescope. Yet many people do not realize that Galileo was also involved with the first published record of observations made with … Continue reading
Posted in Featured book, Images recently digitized, Who we are
5 Comments
Digitized Books
See also: About the Online Galleries Over 130 books are digitized entirely (or nearly so) on the Online Galleries website of the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries. The Galleries provide over 60,000 high-resolution color images … Continue reading
Posted in Images recently digitized
9 Comments
How to browse the Online Galleries
Browsing the Online Galleries to see what images are available To see if an image is available for downloading, go to the main page of the Online Galleries: http://hos.ou.edu/galleries/. You can then browse image thumbnails by period, author and date. … Continue reading
Posted in Images recently digitized
2 Comments
Images terms of use
Terms of Use for images from the Online Galleries of the History of Science Collections Consistent with our role as a special collection of rare books in a major public university committed to a teaching and research mission, the History … Continue reading
Posted in Images recently digitized
1 Comment
Images recently added
After a long hiatus, with this post we are resuming our Images recently digitized blog. That old location will not be updated. About every week or two, we’ll post here a brief notice of some of the most recent images … Continue reading
Posted in Images recently digitized, Who we are
Drawing perspective
Welcome to the blog of the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries. This blog will keep you informed about special events, current exhibits, research tips, who we are, images recently digitized, recent acquisitions, archives, manuscripts, photographs, … Continue reading
