University of Oklahoma History of Science Project

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Online Galleries, University of Oklahoma Libraries, History of Science Collections

The Online Galleries of the University of Oklahoma Libraries offer over 60,000 high resolution images of plates, engravings, portraits, title pages and maps from the holdings of the History of Science Collections. Images are captured at a quality that is easier to examine than the original page, so turn to the galleries when a work has fine detail that repays close scrutiny. Browse these galleries when you need engravings, portraits, maps and illustrations for scholarly examination, or iconic images of pedagogical value for your teaching and presentations. Access the galleries here: http://hos.ou.edu/galleries/

The metadata-enhanced images are organized in parallel directories according to period, author and date, as explained here: http://ouhos.org/2010/06/03/how-to-browse-the-image-galleries/

We will digitize entire books when it is requested by a collaborating project, when distinctive characteristics of the OU copy of a work warrant its digitization, or when the work contains a large number of detailed plates that make existing low-quality versions insufficient. The galleries include over 130 books digitized in their entirety, listed here: http://ouhos.org/2010/06/19/digitized-books/
Examples include Regiomontanus, Kalendarium (1476); Vesalius, De fabrica (1543); Agricola, De re metallica (1556); Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum historia (1570); Gerard’s Herball (1597); Hooke’s Micrographia (1665); the celestial atlases of Bayer (1661) and Bode (1801); William Smith’s geological map of England and Wales (1815); and Darwin’s Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, vol. 1, vol. 2, and vol. 3 (1838-43).

The non-copyrighted images are offered with generous terms of use, although attribution is required: http://ouhos.org/2010/06/03/images-terms-of-use/

For more information, see the History of Science Collections blog: http://ouhos.org/