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Boldly explore

Posted on October 29, 2013 by

by Kerry Magruder Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), p. 163. Colorized by Susanna J. Magruder. Courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries. Download: jpg | tiff More than a decade ago, in 1996, I prepared a … Continue reading →

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Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

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 →

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Another Baldi manuscript: The Cronica autograph

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

Recently we made available a manuscript of an unpublished work on sundials by Bernardino Baldi that had been missing since 1783.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 →

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Lost manuscript on sundials

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

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 →

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Mars: Earliest detailed sketches

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

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 →

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Online Galleries

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

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 →

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Physics Centennial #5: Einstein in Yiddish

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

This is the 5th post in a series celebrating the centennial of the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy. One intriguing work about Einstein is a Yiddish booklet summarizing Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published by Yehuda Leman in 1921. This little … Continue reading →

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