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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 Technology Sample items in the collection

  • The first book of the art of mettals  : in which is declared the manner of their generation; and the concomitants of them
  • Hermès dévoilé : dédié à la postérité
  • A supplement to Mr. Chambers's cyclopædia, or, Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
  • The marrow of alchemy : being an experimental treatise, discovering the secret and most hidden mystery of the philosophers elixer : divided into two parts, the first containing four books chiefly illustrating the theory, the other containing three books, elucidating the practique of the art : in which, the art is so plainly disclosed as never any before did for the benefit of young practitioners, and the convincing those who are in errours laby.inth [Part I]
  • I maravigliosi et occulti secreti naturali : tradotti di lingua Persiana nella nostra lingua Italica
  • Secreti medicinali nuovamente dati in luce
  • Botanick essays : in two parts : with many curious remarks, and several discoveries and improvements
  • Mercury's caducean rod, or, The great and wonderful office of the universal Mercury, or God's vicegerent, displayed  : wherein is shewn his nativity, life, death, renovation and exaltation to an immutable state
  • Amirabil discorso circa la naturalezza : et influenza delli dodici segni celesti e de' sette pianeti : per saper conoscere l'infermità di ciascheduno, & applicarui li rimedii necessarii secondo gli astri, e pianeti, à quali faranno sottoposti, con le lunationi di ciaschedun mese
  • Monographs[Bound volume containing Medu…
  • JournalNature
  • De animantibus subterraneis liber :  hactenus à multis desideratus, nunc vero in gratiam studiosorum seorsim editus, in certa capita divisus, capitum argumentis & nonnullis marginalibus exornatus
  • Le Triomphe hermetique, ou La Pierre philosophale victorieuse
  • The sun and the welfare of man
  • Secrets reveal'd, or, An open entrance to the shut-palace of the King : containing the greatest treasure in chymistry never yet so plainly discovered
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In the collection

  • 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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