History of Science rare book collection images
This collection consists of a sampling of images from the History of Science Book Collection in the Woodson Research Center.
The History of Science collection includes important volumes of physics, mathematics, and astronomy tracing the early history of science. The collection includes four rare astronomy books: Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1566), which marks the dawn of modern science; Alessandro Piccolomini's La Sfera del Mondo (1579), considered the first handbook for stargazers; Cornelius Gemma's De Naturae Divinis Characterismis (1575) relating to the nova of 1572 and a comet in 1556; and Johannes Kepler's Tabulae Rudolpinae (1675), the first English text of Kepler's tables based on the laws of planetary motion.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Find out more about our History of Science rare book collection.
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