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Additional information about the books in this collection can be found in the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library. To search this collection, use the Advanced catalog search option. In the "Location" field, choose WRC-History of Science from the pull-down menu and add search terms you desire (subjects, authors, etc.) to further search within the Collection.

Specific titles on exhibit:

Copernicus, Nicolaus. De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI.: In quibus stellarum et fixarum et erraticarum motus, ex veteribus atq[ue] recentibus obseruationibus, restituit hic autor. Fondren Library call no. QB41 .C76 1566

Flamsteed, John. Atlas celeste. Fondren Library call no. QB65 .F5 1795

Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. par de Fontenelle. Fondren Library call no. QB 54 .F6 1721

Galilei, Galileo di. Dialogo. Fondren Library call no. QB41 .G14 1632

Gemma, Cornelius. De natvræ divinis characterismis. Fondren Library call no. Q155 .G35

Hecker, Johann. Johannis Heckeri Motuum caelestium ephemerides ab anno Ae. V. M DC LXVI ad M DC LXXX. Fondren Library call no. QB7 .H42

Hevelius, Johannes. Johannis Hevelii selenographia. Fondren Library call no. QB29 .H44 1647

Huygens, Christiaan. The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets.Fondren Library call no. PR3517. H87

Hyginus. De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione. Fondren Library call no. QB22 .H9 1517

Kepler, John. Tabulae Rudolphinae. Fondren Library call no. QB26 .C69

Manilius, Marcus. Astronomicon. Fondren Library call no. QB16 .M3

Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae natvralis principia mathematica. Fondren Library call no. QA803 .A2 1687

Picard, Jean. Traité du nivellement. Fondren Library call no. TA606 .P5

Piccolomini, M. Alessandro. La sfera del mondo. Fondren Library call no. QB41 .P55 1579

Riccioli, Giovanni Battista. Almagestum novum astronomiam. Fondren Library call no. QB41 .R4

Thorndike L., A history of magic and experimental science. Fondren Library call no. Q125 .T3 (1958).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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