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History of Science and Technology

The History of Science and Technology Collection brings together in digital facsimile two categories of primary and secondary publications:

  • Writings about scientific research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Unique or valuable titles in science and technology held by the UW-Madison libraries

History of Science and Technology

The History of Science and Technology Collection brings together in digital facsimile two categories of primary and secondary publications: Writings about scientific research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Unique or valuable titles in science and technology held by the UW-Madison libraries
Image Source: A Ship of War of the Third Rate from Chambers' Clyclopaedia (1728)

History of Science and TechnologyIn the Collection

  • Metamorphosis lapidum ignobilium in gemmas quasdam pretiosas, seu, Modus transformandi perlas parvas, et minutulas, in magnas & nobiles, ac etiam construendi carbunculos artificiales, aliosque lapides pretiosos, naturalibus praestantiores
  • Centuria di secreti politici, chimichi, e naturali
  • Modo facile da difendersi dal gran freddo : con niuna, ò pochissima spesa, per chi non hà commodità di legne, ò di carbone, ò delle vesti al tempo del Verno necessarie ; qual serve in ogni loco coperto, ò scoperto, a chi stà fermo, à chi cavalca, ò và in barca, overo in carrozza ; secreto in vero utile & esperime[n]tate
  • Discorso ragionale trattato sopra remedii de veneni materiali, compositi, simplici, corporali, e pestilentiali
  • Catholicon physicorum, seu, Modus conficiendi tincturam physicam & alchymicam a veteribus philosophis ...
  • Monographs[Bound volume containing Medu…
  • Centuria di secreti medicinali, et naturali : nella qualle si contiene cento secreti, tutti approvati, & esperimentati
  • Botanick essays : in two parts : with many curious remarks, and several discoveries and improvements
  • Centuria seconda de secreti materiali, medicinal', e curiosi : opera curiosa & utile al publico
  • Memoir's for a natural history of animals : containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris
  • Old and new plant lore : a symposium
  • Il vero et pretioso thesoro di sanità : nel quale si contengono secreti mirabilissimi, & sopranaturali, per sanare quanti mali possono venire alle persone, & stropiar quanti sani si trovano al mondo
  • Della nobilta, et grandezza dell'huomo : della quale si caua l'ordine, misura, & proportione di quello, & si conosce per la fisonomia fisica, qual sia la complessione di tutti gl'huomini
  • Avertimenti a tutti quelli che desiderano regolatamente vivere : nelli quali si dimostra, come l'huomo possa fuggir i mali temperamenti dell'aria, e secondo le quattro Stagioni dell'anno regolarsi
  • Cento secreti medicinale : cavati dalli piu illustri & celebri autori della medicina tanto antichi come moderni Greci Arbi & latini
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  • Correspondence Concerning Iceland: Written to Sir Joseph Banks
  • Cyclopaedia, Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
  • Department of Chemical Engineering Technical Papers
  • Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application
  • Smithsonian Scientific Series

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