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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 sun and the welfare of man
  • Tesoro di varii secreti : opera molto gioueuole alla sanità de' corpi humani
  • A course of chymistry  : containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in physick
  • Hermès dévoilé : dédié à la postérité
  • Luther Burbank : his methods and discoveries and their practical application
  • Secretti nuovi e rari : et approvati per salute delli corpi humani, con un sonetto sopra il mantener si sano
  • Novo giardino di secreti curiosi et esperimentati
  • 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
  • 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
  • A comparative view of the human and animal frame
  • The microtomist's vade-mecum : a handbook of the methods of microscopic anatomy
  • I maravigliosi et occulti secreti naturali : tradotti di lingua Persiana nella nostra lingua Italica
  • Raymundi Lullii Maioricani Philosophi sui temporis doctissimi Libelli aliquot chemici : nunc primùm, excepto Vade mecum, in lucem
  • La ghirlandetta fiorita di varii secreti bellissimi : da intendere per ogni spirito gentile
  • Giardino medicinale
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    This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.

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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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