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Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, USA
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Argoli, Andrea. Primi mobilis tabulae, Padua, Italy
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Bedini, Silvio. Early American scientific instruments and their makers, Rancho Cordova, United States
Bianchini, Francesco. Hesperi et Phosphori nova phenomena, sive Observationes circa planetam Veneris, Rome, Italy
![Browse noimg](/assets/browse_noimg.png)
Bonnart, Nicolas. L'Astrologie
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Boscovich, Ruggero. Memorie sulli cannocchiali diottrici, Milan, Italy
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British Library / Science & Society Picture Library, England
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Burlini, Biasio. Raccolta di macchine, ed istrumenti d'ottica che si fabbricano in Venezia da Biagio Burlini occhialajo sopra la Fondamenta del Rosmarino all'insegna dell'Archimede , Venice, Italy
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Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Chauvin, Etienne. Lexicon philosophicum . . .
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Chorez, D. untitled manuscript, Italy
![Eyepiece1](/system/collections/images/000/000/221/thumb/Eyepiece1.jpg?1429213151)
Coll. Jaecks
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Coll. Spatz, Tucson, United States
College of Optical Sciences / University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
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Condamine, Charles-Marie de La. Journal du voyage... a l'Equateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degres du méridien..., Paris, France
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Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Epitome Cosmographia, Venice, Italy
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Coronelli, Vincenzo. Biblioteca universale sacro-profana, antico-moderna: In cui si spiega con ordine Alfabetico ogni voce, ance straniera, Che puo avere significato nel nostro Idioma Italiano, Appartenente A'Qualunque materia, Venice, Italy
![44943912](/thumbs/44943912.jpeg)
Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de. Reflexions sur l'utilite des mathematiques et sur la Maniere de les etudier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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d'Orleans, Pere Cherubin. La Dioptrique oculaire, Paris, France
![63120129](/thumbs/63120129.png)
d'Orleans, Pere Cherubin. La Vision Parfaite volume 1, Paris, France
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d'Orleans, Pere Cherubin. La Vision Parfaite volume 2, Paris, France
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de Brune, Johan. Emblemata of zinne-werck.
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de Fer, Nicolas. L'Atlas Curieux: Illustrations of the Paris Observatory, Paris, France
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De Hautefeuille, M. Invention nouvelle pour se servir facilement des plus longues Lunetes d’aproche: et quelques autres moyens de les perfectionner, Paris, France
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De Itaaliansche Waarzegger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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de Lalande, J. Astronomie, Leiden, The Netherlands
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de Montor, Alexis Francois Artaud. Italie, Paris, France
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Descartes, René. Specimina Philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de Methodo Rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora.
![Dumfries](/system/collections/images/000/000/061/thumb/Dumfries.jpg?1391715414)
Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura, Dumfries, Scotland
![63120079](/system/collections/images/000/000/056/thumb/63120079.jpg?1392134899)
Dundee Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, Scotland
![44947065](/thumbs/44947065.jpeg)
Eschinardi, Francesco. Centuriae opticae, Rome, Italy
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Fahie, J. J. Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642: Portraits and paintings, medals and medallions, busts and statues, monuments and mural inscriptions, London, England
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Faulhaber, Johannes. Ingenieurs-Schul, Frankfurt, Germany
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Fransone, Gaspare. Argumentum Academici Clypei, Genoa, Italy
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Fuller, Samuel, Practical Astronomy, in the Description and Use of Both Globes, Orrery and Telescopes, Dublin, Ireland
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Galen, De morbis & symptomatis libri sex
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Galilei, Galileo, Il saggiatore, Rome, Italy
![44940162](/thumbs/44940162.jpeg)
Galilei, Galileo, Opere, Bologna, Italy
![44952667](/thumbs/44952667.jpeg)
Galilei, Galileo, Treatise on the Sphere, Rome, Italy
![44956606](/thumbs/44956606.jpeg)
Galilei, Galileo. Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari, Rome, Italy
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Gottigniez, Logistica Universalis, Naples, Italy
![63120112](/thumbs/63120112.png)
Gregory, David, Elements of Catoptrics and Dioptrics, London, United Kingdom
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Gregory, David, Physical & Geometric Elements of Astronomy, Geneva, Switzerland
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Harsdorffer, Georg Philipp, Delitiae mathematicae et Physicae, Nuremburg, Germany
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Hartsoeker, Nicolaas. Proeve der Deurzicht Kunde, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
![63120115](/thumbs/63120115.png)
Helfenzrieder, Johann, Tubus astronomicus amplissimi campe
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Herrmann and Hoffmann, Die Geschichte der Astronomie in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Hevelius, Johannes. Cometographia, Danzig, Poland
![44921519](/thumbs/44921519.jpeg)
Hevelius, Johannes. Epistola II... de motu Lunae, Danzig, Poland
![88816373](/thumbs/88816373.jpeg)
Hevelius, Johannes. Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia, Danzig, Poland
![44061238](/thumbs/44061238.jpg)
Hevelius, Johannes. Machina coelestis pars prior, Danzig, Poland
![44941734](/thumbs/44941734.jpeg)
Hevelius, Johannes. Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio, Danzig, Poland
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Horrebow, Christian, Elementa astronomiae sphaericae in usum praelectionum conscripta
![44062620](/thumbs/44062620.jpg)
Horrebow, Peter, Basis Astronomiae sive Astronomiae pars Mechanica, Havniae
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Huygens, Christiaan, Astroscopia compendiarium, The Hague, The Netherlands
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Kedleston Hall, Derby, United Kingdom
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Kepler, Johanne, Tabulae Rudolphinae
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King, Henry C., The History of the Telescope
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Kircher, Ars magna lucis et umbrae
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Kraus, Johann Ulrich, Historische Bilder Babel, Augsburg, Germany
Kunstgewerbemuseum / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Le Monnier, P. C., Histoire celeste ou recueil de toutes les observations astronomiques faites par ordre du Roy, Paris, France
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Lobkowitz, Caramuel. Mathesis biceps
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Longleat House, Wiltshire, England
![Louwman](/system/collections/images/000/000/012/thumb/Louwman.png?1392128431)
Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
![44924806](/thumbs/44924806.jpeg)
Lubieniecki, Stanislaw, Theatrum cometicum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Luyts, Astronomica institutio
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Malapert, Charles, Austriaca sidera heliocyclia
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Malvasia, Cornelio, Ephemerides, Modena, Italy
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Manzini, Antonio, L'occhiale all'occhio dioptrica pratica, Bologna, Italy
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Marius, Simon, Mundus Jovialis, Nuremburg, Germany
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Martin, Benjamin, A New and Compendious System of Optics, London, United Kingdom
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Martin, Benjamin, Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy, London, United Kingdom
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, United States
![Moose jaw](/system/collections/images/000/000/177/thumb/Moose_Jaw.jpg?1392128487)
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Canada
![88816353](/thumbs/88816353.jpeg)
Motley, J. L., History of the United Netherlands
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Municipal Library, Bath, United Kingdom
Musee Naval de Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Museo di Storia della Fisica, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy
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Museu da Ciencia Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Museum Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
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Museum of Leathercraft, Northampton, England
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Museum of the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
![Narodni](/system/collections/images/000/000/069/thumb/Narodni.jpg?1392128984)
Narodni Technicke Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
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National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
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National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
![44961056](/thumbs/44961056.jpeg)
Nelli, Vita E Commercio Letterario Di Galileo
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Niceron, Jean Francois, Thaumaturgus opticus, Paris, France
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Nollet, Jean Antoine, Lecons de physique experimentale, Paris, France
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Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
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Ozanam, Dictionaire mathematique
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Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
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Pepys, Samuel, London & Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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Perrault, Claude, Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des animaux, Paris, France
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Petit, Pierre, Von Bedeutung der Cometen
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Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Prestet, Nouveaux elemens des mathematiques
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Canada
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Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, Almagestum novum, Bologna, Italy
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Rieker, Rolf, Fernrohre und ihre Meister, Germany, Berlin
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Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Netherlands
![Huygens small](/system/collections/images/000/000/034/thumb/HUYGENS_small.jpg?1393949243)
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
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Saint-Bonnet, Jean de, Cursus philosophici Tomus secundus, Lyon, France
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Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
![43443344](/thumbs/43443344.jpg)
Scheiner, Christoph, Disquisitiones mathematicae...
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Scheiner, Christoph, Oculus hoc est fundamentum opticum, Innsbruck, Austria
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Scheiner, Christoph, Rosa ursina sive sol, Bracciano, Italy
Scotney Castle, Kent, United Kingdom
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Sherburne, Sir Edward, The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotation and an astronomical index, London, United Kingdom
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Sirturi, Hieronymi, Telescopium; sive ars perficiendi novum
![44092590](/system/collections/images/000/000/068/thumb/44092590.jpg?1393951863)
Skokloster Slott (Castle), Skokloster, Sweden
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Smith, Robert, A compleat system of opticks
![Snowshill](/system/collections/images/000/000/055/thumb/Snowshill.png?1392129103)
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Snowshill, England
![63120122](/thumbs/63120122.png)
Spengler, Joseph, Optick, catoptrick und dioptrick . . . , Augsberg, Germany
Stewart Museum, Montreal, Canada
![63120123](/thumbs/63120123.png)
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, Mathesis compendiaria, Altdorf, Switzerland
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Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
![Technoseum](/system/collections/images/000/000/175/thumb/Technoseum.jpg?1392129136)
Technoseum: Landesmuseum fur Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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TEST Collection, Berlin, OZ
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle, England
![28717298](/system/collections/images/000/000/032/thumb/28717298.jpg?1392134034)
Utrecht University Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
![44913695](/thumbs/44913695.jpeg)
van de Venne, Jan Pieters. Zeevsche Nachtegael ende Des selfs dryderley gesang, Middelburg, The Netherlands
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Verbiest, Ferdinand, Yixiang zhi (On Astronomical Instruments)
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States of America
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Voigt, Johann Henrich, Alten und Neuen Styli sonderbarer Christencalender
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Voltaire, Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
![Wellcome](/system/collections/images/000/000/085/thumb/Wellcome.jpg?1392129193)
Wellcome Images, London, United Kingdom
![44939935](/thumbs/44939935.jpeg)
Wilkins, Discourse Concerning a New World & Another Planet
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Wilkins, Le Monde dans la Lune
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Willink, D., Amsterdamsche buitensingel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Wisbech, England
![88816402](/thumbs/88816402.jpeg)
Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, Mathematisches Lexicon, Leipzig, Germany
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Zahn, Johann, Oculus artificialis teledioptricum sive telescopium, Germany, Nuremburg