Dissertatio de lumine
subject: Light - early works to 1800
description: Title page
creator: Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe
source: QC353.B67 1767
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1767
format: jpg
language: Italian

Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bestes
subject: sound production by animals - early works to 1800 animal communication - early works to 1800
description: Title page
creator: Bougeant, Guillaume-Hyacinthe
source: QL776.B68 1739
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1739
format: jpg
language: French
type: Book

Dissertatio de motv et natvra cometarvm
subject: comets - early works to 1800
description: Page featuring constellations illustration and text.
creator: Pardies, Ignace Gaston
source: QB731.P37 1655
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1665
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

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title: Refractiones coelestes, sive Solis elliptici phaenomenon illvstratvm: in quo variae atqve antiqvae astronomorvm circa hanc materiam difficultates enodantur, dubia multiplicia dissoluuntur, via ad multa recondita eruenda sternitur: opusculum tam astronomis quam physicis perquam utile, perq[uam] necessarium
subject: astronomy - early works to 1800 refraction, astronomical astronomical instruments - early works to 1800 sun -early works to 1800
description: title page
creator: Scheiner, Christoph
source: QB155.S33 1617
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1617
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

Ioco-seriorum naturae et artis, siue Magiae naturalis centuriae tres
subject: science - early works to 1800 scientific recreations - early works to 1800 practical jokes - early works to 1800
description: title page
creator: Schott, Gaspar
source: Q155.S3
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1666
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

Letter, 1774 May 16 Paris [to] Lorenzo Selva, Venice
subject: Optics - early works to 1800
description: First page of letter from Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich to Lorenzo Selva
creator: Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe
source: QC353.B67 1774
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1774 - 05-16
format: jpg
language: Italian
type: Manuscript

Gnomonices libri octo: in qvibvs non solum horologiorum solariu[m], sed aliarum quo[quam] rerum, quae ex gnomonis umbra congnosci possunt, descriptiones geometrice demonstrantur
subject: sundials - early works to 1800
description: Front piece
creator: Clavius, Christoph
source: QB215.C54 1581
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1581
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

Noua demonstratio immobilitatis terrae petita ex virtute magnetica: et quaedam alia ad effectus & leges magneticas, vsumque longitudinum & vniuersam geographiam spectantia, de nouo inuenta
subject: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 - influence Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Dialogo dei massimi sisterni astronomy - early works to 1800 magnetism, terrestrial - early works to 1800 earth - rotation - early works to 1800
description: Illustration of a compass
creator: Grandami, Jacques
source: QB633.G72 1645
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1645
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

Iter exstaticum coeleste
subject: astronomy - early works to 1800
description: Illustration of the phases of the moon.
creator: Kircher, Athanasius
source: QB41.K5
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1660
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book

Avstriaca sidera heliocyclia astronomicis hypothesibvs illigata
subject: solar system - early works to 1800 southern sky (astronomy) - early works to 1800 planets - orbits - early works to 1800 telecscope - early works to 1800
description: Chapter illustration of a telescope
creator: Malapert, Chalres
source: QB501.M34 1633
publisher: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
date: 1633
format: jpg
language: Latin
type: Book