Research Guides: Early Modern Works in Special Collections: Science and Innovation

Science and Innovation

Below is a selection of works about science and innovation from the Rare Books collection, published in the Early Modern era. For more titles, search the catalog or contact us.

Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiæ animalium. By Conrad Gessner. Tiguri : apud Christ. Rare Oversize | QL41 .G37Froschoverum, 1551-1587. Rare Oversize QL41 .G37.

Plantarvm Effigies by Leonhart Fuchs
Call Number: QK41.F83 1549
Publication Date: 1549
Lyon: Chez Balthazar Arnoullet, 1549.
Ioachimi Camerarij Paberperg[ii] Commentarij utriusque linguae, in quibus est Diaskeyē onomastikē tōn en tō anthrōginō sōmati merōn: hoc est, diligens exquisitio nominum, quibus partes corporis humani appellari solent... by Joachim Camerarius
Call Number: Rare Folio PA427.B8 1557
Publication Date: 1551
Edebantur Basileae: Per Ioannem Heruagium, Anno Christi 1551.
Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiæ animalium lib. I.[-V.]... by Conrad Gessner
Call Number: Rare Oversize QL41 .G37
Publication Date: 1551
Tiguri: apud Christ. Froschoverum, 1551-1587.
Nomenclator Aquatilium Animantium. Icones Animalium Aquatilium in Mari & Dulcibus Aquis Degentium, Plus quam DCC. Cum Nomenclaturis Singulorum Latinis, Grȩcis, Italicis, Hispanicis, Gallicis, Germanicis, Anglicis, Alijsq Interdum... by Conrad Gessner
Call Number: QL41.G372
Publication Date: 1560
Tigvri, excudebat C. Froschovervs, 1560.
Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco: In Gratia[m] Studiosae Iuuentutis Collectae ab Ariele Bicardo, & Nunc Denuo Recognitae, Figuris Mathematics ac Tabulis Illustratae, Quae in Reliquis Editionibus Antehac Desiderabantur by Hartmann Beyer
Call Number: QB41.S2 1561
Publication Date: 1561
Parisiis: Apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1552.
Conradi Dasypodii Institutionum mathematicarum voluminis primi erotemata. Logisticae. Geometriae. Sphaerae. Geographiae. by Cunradus Dasypodius
Call Number: Rare QA33.D34 1593
Publication Date: 1593
[Argentinae], Pro schola argentinensi imprimebat Iosiac Rihelius, 1593.
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuoue scienze, attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali...Con una appendice del centro di grauità d’alcuni solidi. by Galileo Galilei
Call Number: Rare QA33.G28
Publication Date: 1638
Leida, Appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638.
De augmentis scientiarum lib IX. by Francis Bacon
Call Number: Rare B1170 1662
Publication Date: 1662
Amstelaedami, Sumptibus Joannis Ravesteinii, 1662.
Sylva, or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions by J.E. Esq.... To Which is Annexed Pomona or, an Appendix Concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider... by John Evelyn
Call Number: SD391.E93 1664
Publication Date: 1664
London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Je. Allestry..., 1664.
Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. by Robert Hooke
Call Number: Rare Folio QH271.H79
Publication Date: 1665
London, Printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665.
Recueil d’experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du mélange des corps, sur les saveurs, sur les odeurs, sur le sang, sur le lait... by Nehemiah Grew
Call Number: Rare QD27.G8214 1679
Publication Date: 1679
Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.
Essays of the strange subtilty, determinate nature, great efficacy of effluviums by Robert Boyle
Call Number: Rare QD27.B74165 1680
Publication Date: 1680
Genevae: Apud Samuelem de Tournes, 1680.
Museum Regalis Societatis; or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge... Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts... by Royal Society
Call Number: Q105.G74
Publication Date: 1681
London, Printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1681.
Geometria, à Renato Des Cartes, anno 1637 gallicè edita; postea autem unà cum notis Florimondi de Beaune... gallicè conscriptis in latinam linguam versa, & commentariis illustrata, operâ atque studio Francisci à Schooten ... Nunc demu ab eodem diligenter by René Descartes
Call Number: Rare QA33.D43
Publication Date: 1683
Amstelodami, ex typographia Blaviana, 1683.
Natural philosophy improven by new experiments: touching the mercurial weather-glass, the hygroscope, eclipsis, conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter: by new experiments, touching the pressure of fluids, the diving-bell, and all the curiosities thereof... by George Sinclair
Call Number: Rare QC17.S56 1683
Publication Date: 1683
[Edinburgh]: Printed in the year, 1683, and are to be sold by Gideon Schaw bookseller... in Edinburgh, [1683]