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15th Century Physics Books - Highlights

 

Peter of Limoges. De oculo morali. Augsburg : Anton Sorg, not after Aug. 1476

Opening Leaf

Booth Family Center for Special Collections. Special Collections Vault ; 1476 .P3 Vault

Alphonsus, Rex Castellae. Tabulae astronomicae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 4 July 1483. 

Printed edition of the Celestial Movement Tables commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile in the 13th Century. 

          

Opening Leaf                                                                                Figure on Leaf 92v Showing the Eclipse of the Moon

Booth Family Center for Special Collections.  Special Collections Vault ; 1483 .A3 Vault

Notable Early Printed Books in Physics

A depiction of the Magdeburg hemispheres experiment in 1654. 

From: Schott, Gaspar.  Technica Curiosa.  Wurzburg: Wolfgang Endter, 1687

Booth Family Center for Special Collections.  General 88A402

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