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Book/Printed MaterialLe proprietaire en francoys. "... Des p[ro]prietes des choses fut tra[n]slate de latin en fra[n]coys lay de grace Mil.CCCC.lxxij [sic, i.e. 1372] par le co[m]ma[n]deme[n]t de tres puissant et noble prince Charles le quint ... Et le traslata son petit et humble chapellain frere Jehan Corbichon ...": Colophon. Imprint from colophon. Printer's device below colophon. Signatures: a⁸ ²a⁸ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-B⁸ (leaf a8 blank). Goff B-148 Hain-Copinger…- Contributor: Bartholomaeus - Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) - Corbichon, Jean - Huss, Mathias
- Date: 1491
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Photo, Print, DrawingHoward Miller telling a story about his 'coon hounds- Contributor: Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Miller, Howard
- Date: 1995-04-22
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Audio RecordingA mysterious light.- Contributor: Hufford, Mary - Miller, Howard
- Date: 1995-04-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record- Contributor: Sagan, Carl - Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1977-06-06
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter to Alan Lomax Regarding the Voyager Golden Record
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl - Lomax, Alan
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Book/Printed MaterialRenati Des-Cartes Principia philosophiae
Des Cartes philosophia René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientific thinker, and philosopher who made important contributions to mathematics, optics, epistemology, and other fields that helped to shape how the modern world came to see nature and the human mind. The son of a lawyer, he was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche and in Poitiers, where he studied law. He became a soldier…- Contributor: Elzevir, Louis - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Descartes, René - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialDe caelo, Separate issue of part of vol. II of the Works, containing De caelo, and De generatione et corruptione, each with separate t.-p., the two works being paged according to Bekker's Oxford edition, 268a-313b, 314a-338b, respectively. "This translation was begun, in cooperation with Mr. H. B. Wallis ... his original draft formed the basis of nearly half my version of the book."--Pref. Also available in…- Contributor: Stocks, J. L. (John Leofric) - Wallis, Harry Bernard - Aristotle
- Date: 1922
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Book/Printed MaterialThe world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism, Also available in digital form.- Contributor: Snyder, Carl
- Date: 1907
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Book/Printed MaterialA stellar key to the summer land "Part I." A sequel was published in 1878 under title: Views of our heavenly home. Also available in digital form. LAC brd 2018-11-02 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-05 review- Contributor: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) - Davis, Andrew Jackson
- Date: 1867
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Book/Printed MaterialAlbumasar De magnis [con]iunctionibus, anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus, ac eo[rum] profectionibus, octo [con]tine[n]s tractatus
De magnis [con]iunctionibus, anno[rum] reuolutio[n]ibus, ac eo[rum] profectionibus, octo [con]tine[n]s tractatus | De magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. First edition, Augusburg, 1489. Essentially a translation by Joannes Hispalensis of the Kitāb aḥkām sinī al-mawālīd (Book of revolutions of the birth-years) and other writings, based in great part on al-Kindī.--Cf Enzyk. d. Islām adn Sarton, Introd. hist. sci. [1927] v. 1, p. 568. In Latin. LC copy has inscription on front…- Contributor: Clarke, Adam - Sessa, Melchiorre - Kindī - Pencio, Jacopo - Abū Maʻshar - Early Printing Collection (Library of Congress) - Joannes
- Date: 1515
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Book/Printed MaterialCreator and cosmos illustrated Each part has its own t.p. Also available in digital form. Copy 2 formerly part of the YA collection: YA number unidentified. vj21 2002-01-16.- Contributor: Shaw, Robert
- Date: 1880
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Photo, Print, Drawing"Sorry -- it doesn't fit in with the official line" Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).- Contributor: Block, Herbert
- Date: 1955
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Photo, Print, Drawing[The Earth with the Milky Way and Moon] 1 drawing : charcoal ; sheet 47 x 63.5 cm.- Contributor: Benda, Wladyslaw T. (Wladyslaw Theodore)
- Date: 1918
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Book/Printed MaterialThe world: historical and actual. What has been and what is. Our globe in its relations to others worlds, and before man. Ancient nations in the order of their antiquity. The middle … Also available in digital form.- Contributor: Gilbert, Frank
- Date: 1882
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Film, Video[Flash Gordon serials--trailers]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files. Trailers for the first two Flash Gordon serials spliced together on one reel. Original serial based on the comic strip by Alex Raymond. Sources used: Kinnard, Fifty years of serial thrills, p. 129-161; Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 25, 2013; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed October 25, 2013.- Contributor: Crabbe, Buster - Rogers, Jean - Middleton, Charles B. - Afi/Triangle Laboratories Estate Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1936
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Film, Video[Flight to Mars--trailer]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- Contributor: Monogram Pictures Corporation - Afi/Tayler (Dorothy M.) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1951
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MapAtlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heavens ... Cover title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Mattison, Hiram - Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale)
- Date: 1856
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MapCharte der Gebirge des Mondes nach eigenen Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1840-1874 Relief shown by contours and shading. Title from cover. Unbound in portfolio. Accompanied by hardbound text: xii, 303, [1] p. : tables ; 31 cm. Also accompanied by softbound text: Kurze Erläuterung zu J. Schmidt's Mondcharte, in 25 Sectionen, Berlin : In Commission bei D. Reiner, 1878 : 19, [1] p. ; 30 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as…- Contributor: Prussia (Germany). Ministerium Der Geistlichen, Unterrichts- Und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten - Schmidt, J. F. Julius (Johann Friedrich Julius) - Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, Germany)
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Map[Four diagrams of Solar eclipses]. Title devised by cataloger. Appears in: Universal Geography, Johanne Bunone, London, 1711. In upper right margin: p. 30. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in black ink in lower margin: 626888.- Contributor: Buno, Johannes
- Date: 1711
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MapSystema mundi Tychonicum : secundum celeberrimorum astronomorum Tychonis de Brahe et Io. Baptistae Riccioli S.I. hypotheses concinnatum Appears in his Grosser Atlas uber die gantze Welt. Nurnberg, 1716. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along fold line. Bottom edge and center fold repaired with cardboard on verso.- Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
- Date: 1716
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MapSystema solare et planetarium ex hypothesi Copernicana secundum elegantissimas illustrissimi quondam Hugenij deductiones novissime collectum & exhibitum Appears in his Grosser Atlas uber die gantze Welt. Nurnberg, 1716. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Discoloration along fold line. Lacking lower corners. Stamped on verso: 5985.- Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
- Date: 1716
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MapA scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets belonging thereto Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink on verso: Whiston's Solar System.- Contributor: Whiston, William - Senex, John
- Date: 1720
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MapA scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets belonging thereto Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounted on cloth.- Contributor: Whiston, William - Senex, John
- Date: 1720
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MapThe Solar System, with the orbits of 5 remarkable comets. Appears in: A complete system of geography / Emanuel Bowen. London, 1747. 2 vol[s]. Includes diagrams of: Oblique sphere -- Right sphere -- Parallel sphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy typed in lower margin: 626888, N41. LC copy has handwritten in pencil in lower left margin: A complete system of geography, 2 vol[s], Emanuel…- Contributor: Bowen, Emanuel
- Date: 1747