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Seneca the Younger: Quaestiones Naturales L Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera tribus tomis distincta, apud Baba, Venice, 1643. Property of the Naples Library Collection. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org. pp. 2, 3, 4, 5

Pliny the Elder: Historia Naturalis C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historia, Tom. I, ex officina Hackiana, Rotterdam 1669. By permission of the HathiTrust. pp. 11, 12, 13

Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae

 Isidorus <Hispaliensis>: Etymologiae, [Augsburg], 1472.  By permission of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. 2 Inc. c.a. 129, fol. 16v. p. 21

Francis Bacon:
Novum Organum Scientiarum

Francisci de Verulamio Instauratio Magna, Londini, Apud J. Billium, 1620. By permission of the University of Toronto Libraries. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

 pp. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Vitruvius: De Architectura

 M.Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior foetus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intellegi possit, Venetiis: Ioannes de Tridino, 1511. By permission of the Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library. pp. 36, 37, 38, 39, 40

Marcus Cetius Faventinus: De Architectura Compendium Exercitiationes Vitruvianae Primae. Hoc est Ioannis Poleni Commentarius Criticus de M. Vitruvii Pollionis Architecti, Patavii, apud Ioannem Manfrè, 1739. Getty Library holding. Digital version courtesy of archive.org. pp. 49, 50, 51, 52

Leon Battista Alberti: De Re Aedificatoria

De re aedificatoria libri decem Leonis Baptistae Alberti, Argentorati [Strasbourg]: excudebat M. Iacobus Cammerlander Moguntinus, 1541. By permission of the Getty Research Institute. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 58, 59, 60

Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae Isidorus <Hispaliensis>: Etymologiae, [Augsburg], 1472. By permission of the Bayer­ische Staatsbibliothek München. 2 Inc. c.a. 129, fol64v. p. 66
Maimonides: Regimen Sanitatis

Moshe ben Maymon De regimine sanitatis ad Soldanum Babyloniae. Florentie: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripolis [ca. 1481]. Courtesy of the National Library of Israel.

pp. 74, 75, 76, 77, 78

William Harvey: Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus

Guilielmi Harveji Exercitationes Anatomicae, de Motu Cordis & Sanguinis Circulatione, ex officina Arnoldi Leers, Roterodami, 1661. Property of the National Library of Naples. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

 pp. 84, 85, 86, 87, 88

Luigi Aloisio Galvani: De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari.

Aloysii Galvani de Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari, Bononiae: Ex Typographia Instituti Scientiarium, 1791. Property of the Smithsonian Libraries. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

 p. 95, 96, 97, 98

Euclid: Elementa Geometriae First printing of the thirteenth-century Arabic translation by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi of Euclid’s Elements. The picture shows part of the statement and proof of the theorem of Pythagoras. Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of St. John’s College, Cambridge. p. 107
  Image in the Folger Shakespeare Library  Digital Image Collection. From the first printed edition under  the title: Preclarissimus liber elementorum  Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m]foelicissime. Erhardus Ratdolt Augustensis impressor solertissimus Venetijs impressit  Anno 1482. p. 112
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis Leibniz, “Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis,” Acta Eruditorum, Lipsiae, 1684. Property of the Complutense University of Madrid. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org. pp. 120, 121, 122

Nicolaus Copernicus De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

 Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. Property of the Boston  Public  Library. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org. pp. 129, 130, 131 and p. 140

Johannes Kepler: Epitome Astronomiae Copernicae

Epitome astronomiae  copetnicanae, usitata forma quaestionum &responsionum, Lentiis ad Danubium, 1618. Property of the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 146, 147, 148

pp. 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159

Isaac Newton: Principia

Newton, Principia: Facsimile of a 1687 printing.  Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.

 pp. 165, 166, 167, and p. 173

Alhazen: Opticae Thesaurus Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primùm editi. Eiusdem liber De crepusculis & nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thuringolopoli libri 10. Omnes instaurati, figuris illustrati & aucti, adiecti etiam in Alhazenum commentarijs, a Federico Risnero. Basel, 1572. Property of the National Central Library of Rome. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 180, 181

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Isaac Newton: Lectiones Opticae

Isaaci Newtoni lectiones opticae annis MDCLXIX, MDCLXX & MDCLX XI : in scholis publicis habitae ; et nunc primum ex mss. in lucem editae. Publisher: G. Innys. London, 1729. Facsimile courtesy of Echo, Berlin and Max Planck Institute Library.

 pp. 188, 189, 190, 191, 192

Isaac Newton: Lectiones Opticae

Manuscript with Newton’s handwriting: Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndic of Cambridge University Library. Lectiones Opticae (MS.Add.4002).

 pp. 193, 194

Nicole Oresme: Tractatus de Origine, Jure et Mutationibus Monetarum

De re monetaria vetervm Romanorvm et hodierni a:pvd Germanos Imperii, libri duo Marquardi Freheri ...: accedit Nicolai Oresmii ... , Lubduni apud Gothardum Voegelinum, 1605. By permission of the Getty Research  Institute. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 203, 204, 205

Domingo de Soto: De Justitia et Iure

Fratris Dominici Soto Segouiensis, theologi De iustitia & iure : libri decem, Salmanticae: Excudebat Andreas à Portonariis, 1553. By permission of The Robbins Collection, University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 212, 213, 214

Georgius Agricola: De Re Metallica

Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII, Froben, Basel, 1556. Property of the National Central Library of Rome. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 226, 227, 228

Andreas Libavius: Alchemia

Alchymia Andreae Libauii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus &experimentis nonnullis, Joannes Saurius, Frankfurt, 1606. By permission of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology. Facsimile courtesy of archive.org.

pp. 235, 236

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