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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

  • Tesoro di sanita : nel quale si contiene alcuni particolari, e maravigliosi secreti  : non più da persona alcuna dati in luce
  • Raymundi Lullii Maioricani Philosophi sui temporis doctissimi Libelli aliquot chemici : nunc primùm, excepto Vade mecum, in lucem
  • Raymundi Lullii Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem, scientiarum artiumque omnium brevi compendio, firmaq[ue] memoria appraehendendarum, locupletissimaq[ue] vel oratione ex tempore pertractandarum, pertinent : ut et in eandem quorundam interpretum scripti commentarii, quae omnia sequens indicabit pagina, & hoc demum tempore coniunctim emendatiora locupletioraq[ue] non nihil edita sunt : accessit huic editioni Valerii de Valerijs patricij Veneti aureum in artem Lulli generalem opus : adiuncto indice cum capitum, tùm rerum ac verborum locupletissimo
  • Philosophia maturata : an exact piece of philosophy, containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone : with the wayes how to make the mineral stone, and the calcination of mettals : whereunto is added, a work compiled by St. Dunstan, concerning the philosophers stone, and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time
  • Hermès dévoilé : dédié à la postérité
  • Novo giardino di secreti curiosi et esperimentati
  • Tesoro di varii secreti : opera molto gioueuole alla sanità de' corpi humani
  • Sanguis naturae, or, A manifest declaration of the sanguine and solar congealed liquor of nature
  • Elixer, seu, Medicina vitae, seu Modus conficiendi verum aurum, et argentum potabile ...
  • Giardino de varii secreti : havuti da diversi signori, dove si contengono varie sorti di giuochi, secreti, e burle, con diverse interrogationi
  • Centuria di secreti medicinali, et naturali : nella quale si contiene cento secreti, tutti approvati, & esperimentati
  • 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
  • Sanioris medicinæ magistri D. Rogeri Baconis Angli, de arte chymiæ scripta : cui accesserunt opuscula alia eiusdem authoris
  • Tesoro di secreti naturali
  • Luther Burbank : his methods and discoveries and their practical application
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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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