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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…- Contributor: Descartes, René - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Elzevir, Louis
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed Material[The vvhole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring …
Title commonly known as: Bay Psalm book | Whole Booke of Psalmes The Bay Psalm Book, as this work is commonly known, is the first book printed in British North America. The Reverend Jesse Glover imported the first printing press to the Massachusetts Bay…- Contributor: Day, Stephen - Day, Matthew - Eliot, John - Cotton, John - Van Sinderen, Adrian - Weld, Thomas - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Mather, Richard
- Date: 1640
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MapDelineatio generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina : cum adjacentibus provinciis "Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of which was then under Polish control, took part…- Contributor: Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur - Hondius, Willem
- Date: 1648
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Book/Printed MaterialXin ke Ren rui tang Ding bu quan shu bei kao : san shi si juan
新刻人瑞堂訂補全書備 : 三十四卷 | Ding bu quan shu bei kao Even though the title indicates that this work is a supplement to Quan shu bei kao (Notes to the complete library of the four treasures), the existence of such a work cannot…- Contributor: Zheng, Shangxuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Ren Rui Tang
- Date: 1641
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Book/Printed MaterialShou tiao xue pu : san juan
守苕血譜 : 三卷 / The work presented here documents the good deeds of Lu Ziyan, the prefect of Huzhou (Zhejiang Province), and his efforts to protect Tiaoxi (later named Huzhou). Lu Ziyan received his jin shi…- Contributor: Han, Zezu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Huang, Shouzhou - Ling, Yiqu - Chen, Zilong - Mao, Yuanming - Qian, Yuanque
- Date: 1643
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Book/Printed MaterialLicheng Xian zhi : shi liu juan
歷城縣志 : 十六卷 / | Title on spine of case: Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi | Also known as: Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi | Chongzhen Shandong Licheng Xian zhi | Chongzhen Licheng Xian zhi Compiled, according to the introduction written by author Ye Chengzong, at the behest of Song Zufa, Governor of Licheng County. Includes excerpts from Shan hai jing, Shuij ing zhu, Qi sheng, Tai…- Contributor: Cai, Maode - Song, Zufa - Ye, Chengzong - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1640
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Book/Printed MaterialZou Deyong za zhu : shi san juan
鄒德泳雜著 : 十三卷 The author of this work was Zou Deyong, a native of Anfu, Jiangxi Province, grandson of Zou Shouyi (1491-1562). The elder Zou was one of the exponents of the school of Wang…- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zou, Deyong
- Date: 1645
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Book/Printed MaterialLi sao tu : bu fen juan
離騷圖 : 不分卷 | Xiao Chimu Li sao tu | Title on title page: Li sao | Li sao Four volumes; published by Tang Yongxian; rebound by Pan Zuyin; preface by Li Kai dated 1645. This work is an illustrated edition of the Qing dynasty of the poem Li sao (Departing…- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Kai - Xiao, Yuncong
- Date: 1645
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Book/Printed MaterialGe zhi cao : liu juan
格致草 : 六卷 / Presented here is a set of two works by Xiong Mingyu and his son Xiong Renlin, in six juan in two volumes. This copy was printed in the fifth year (1648) of…- Contributor: Xiong, Renlin - Xiong, Mingyou - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1648
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialShou zhe zhuan : san juan
壽者傳 : 三卷 / Although Chen Maoren is cited as author, the "Si ku quan shu zong mu" declared that the six chapters he composed are not found in this work; included are sixty-two biographies and…- Contributor: Chen, Maoren - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJiang bei liang tai zhang mu : bu fen juan
江北糧臺賬目 : 不分卷 | Jiang bei liang tai ji fa guan bing ling xiang shu mu | Jiang bei liang tai ban li bao xiao di an Jiang bei liang tai zhang mu: bu fen juan (Accounts of the Jiangbei grain office) is a manuscript copy from the Qing dynasty, in two volumes, by an unknown author. The title…- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLi dai zheng run kao : si juan
歷代正閏考 : 四卷 / This work, in four juan and four volumes, is a manuscript edition without prefaces or postscripts. The author, Shen Defu (1578-1642), lived during the Ming dynasty. A native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province,…- Contributor: Shen, Defu - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialDahuai Wang shi nian zu yue yan shi ji : yi juan, Dahuai Wang shi nian …
大槐王氏念祖約言世記 : 一卷, 大槐王氏念祖約言續記一卷 / | Yue yan Family biographies, regulations and genealogies. Presented here is a genealogical work of the Wang family of Huantai, Shandong Province, printed during the Chongzhen (1628-44), the last reign of the Ming dynasty. Chinese…- Contributor: Wang, Xiangjin - Wang, Zhiyuan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1642
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Book/Printed MaterialGreat Miracle of the Apparition of the Queen of Heaven, Saint Mary Our Beloved Mother of …
Hvei tlamahviçoltica omonexiti in ilhvicac tlatocacihvapilli Santa Maria totlaçonantzin Gvadalvpe in nican hvei altepenahvac Mexico itocayocan Tepeyacac Known also as Nican mopohua (Here it is said), this document is the report in Nahuatl of the history of the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, on the hilltop of Tepeyac,…- Contributor: Vega, Luis Lasso De La
- Date: 1649-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 44
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Book/Printed MaterialJiang ning bu zheng si shu fu ting zhou xian yu di quan tu
江寧布政司屬府廳州縣輿地全圖 Jiangning was designated a province in the 25th year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty (1760). The provincial administrative government was established under the supervision of the governor-general of two…- Date: 1644-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialJiangsu zhi Beijing Yunhe quan tu
江蘇至北京運河全圖 Jiangsu zhi Beijing yun he quan tu (A complete view of the canal from Jiangsu to Beijing) is made of a long continuous sheet of paper folded into accordion-like leaves. It has…- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialQi qi tu shui
奇器圖說 Qi qi tu shuo (Illustrations and explanations of wonderful machines) is the first Chinese translation of a work that introduced Western mechanics and machine engineering to China. It was dictated by Deng…- Contributor: Wang, Zheng - Terentius, Joannes
- Date: 1644
- Resource: PDF - 80
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Book/Printed MaterialHuang He fang xian tu
黃河防險圖 This work is bound in accordion pleat-like leaves, in 15 folded sheets. The illustrations show the locations of flood prevention works along the Yellow River in Henan Province. Included are dykes and…- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialYu Sheng Huang He sao ba qing xing quan tu
豫省黃河埽垻情形全圖 This Qing-dynasty atlas painted in color is formatted in accordion pleat-like leaves, in 21 folded sheets. The directions used in the maps are the exact opposite of those commonly used, that is,…- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialSan guo zhi tu xiang
三國志圖像 Sanguo yan yi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong (circa 1330--1400), a late-Yuan and early-Ming author, is a historical novel set in the third century, in the turbulent years…- Contributor: Luo, Guangzhong
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialYong huai tang xin bian shi cuo ren chun deng mi ji
詠怀堂新编十错认春灯谜记 Ruan Dacheng (circa 1587--1646) was a well-known late-Ming poet and dramatist from an influential family in Huaining, Anhui Province, and also a corrupt politician of unsavory reputation. He received his jin shi…- Contributor: Ruan, Dacheng
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialXi yang xin fa li shu
西洋新法曆書 Xu Guangqi (1562--1633), a scholar and official, was a native of Shanghai. He came into contact with Christianity in 1596, later met the Jesuit missionaries Matteo Ricci and João da Rocha in…- Contributor: Xu, Guangqi
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialChong ke li ti lue
重刻曆體略 This work originally was written by Wang Yingming (died 1614) and was thought to be the first work of a Chinese scholar influenced by Western learning, as Wang was greatly influenced by…- Contributor: Qian, Mingyin, Circa 17th Century - Wang, Yueyu - Wang, Yang - Tu, Xiangmei - Zhao, Shichun - Wang, Yingming, 1614 - Weng, Hanlin
- Date: 1646
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Book/Printed MaterialTui bei tu
推背圖 The title Tui bei tu (An illustrated prophecy book), literally translated as "The back-pushing drawing," is attributed to two Tang-dynasty astronomers and historians, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, during the reign of…- Contributor: LI, Chunfeng, 602-670 - Yuan, Tiangang, Died 627
- Date: 1644
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Book/Printed MaterialProsperity of the West India Company.
Wel-vaert van de West-Indische Compagnie This pamphlet of 1642 contains a number of proposals to increase the profits of the Dutch West India Company for the benefit of its shareholders. The company was established in 1621 under…- Contributor: Candele, P. Le
- Date: 1642-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialDescription of Malta.
Della descrittione di Malta isola nel mare Siciliano con le sve antichita, ed altre notitie, libri quattro Della descrittione di Malta (Description of Malta) was published during the first era of printing on the island of Malta. At the time, Malta was ruled by a religious order, the Order…- Contributor: Abela, Giovanfrancesco
- Date: 1647-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 620
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Book/Printed MaterialBrief Principles of the Arabic Language.
Breves arabicae linguae institutiones Philippo Guadagnoli (1596--1656) was a Franciscan priest and Italian orientalist. A native of Magliano in the province of Tuscany, he joined the Franciscan order in 1612 and devoted himself to studying Arabic…- Contributor: Catholic Church. Congregatio De Propaganda Fide - Guadagnoli, Filippo
- Date: 1642-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Passions of the Soul.
Les Passions de l'âme Les Passions de l'âme (The passions of the soul) is a treatise on moral philosophy, published in Paris in 1649, in which the philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) theorizes on "the passions," or…- Contributor: Descartes, René
- Date: 1649-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialVasile Lupu's Code of Laws.
Carte românească de învăţătură de la pravilele împărăteşti şi de la alte giudeaţe Carte românească de învăţătură de la pravilele împărăteşti şi de la alte giudeaţe (Romanian book of instruction from the imperial statutes and other judicial pronouncements), also known as Pravila lui Vasile Lupu…- Contributor: Eustratie, Logothete, Died Approximately 1646 - Vasile Lupu, Voivode of Moldavia
- Date: 1646-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 418
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Book/Printed MaterialThe New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus. Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus) is an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi ibn Sallum (died…- Contributor: Paracelsus - Hermes, Trismegistus - Alabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh Ibn Sallūm - Uthmānī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī - Croll, Oswald
- Date: 1640-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialZemaitija Castle Court Year Book for 1646--47. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland,…- Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
- Date: 1646-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialJournal of New Netherland 1647. Written in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, and 1646.
Journael van Nieu Nederlandt 1647. Beschreven in de jaeren 1641. 1642. 1643. 1644. 1645. en 1646 Willem Kieft (1597--1647) was a Dutch merchant who was appointed by the West India Company as director-general of New Netherland in 1638. Kieft instituted a harsh policy toward the Indians of the…- Date: 1641-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Album Amicorum of Jacob Heyblocq.
Album Amicorum In the days of Jacob Heyblocq (1623-90), friendship books (referred to by their Latin name, alba amicorum) were popular among students who traveled from university to university. Traveling scholars took the books…- Contributor: Heyblocq, Jacob (Jacobus)
- Date: 1645-01-01
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Book/Printed Material"Hortus Regius" or Queen Christina's Genealogical Tree with Political Emblems.
Hortus Regius Hortus Regius (The royal garden) was given to the Swedish queen Christina about 1645 by its creator, the diplomat Shering Rosenhane (1609-63). With this elegant manuscript, Rosenhane wanted to celebrate the first…- Contributor: Rosenhane, Schering - Holsteyn, Pieter, II, Around
- Date: 1645-01-01
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MapDi tu zong yao
地图综要 Di tu zong yao (General survey of geographical maps) is an outline of Chinese military geography in three parts: Zong juan (Main volume), Nei juan (Internal volume), and Wai juan (External volume).…- Contributor: Zhu, Guogan - LI, Fuyuan - Zhu, Guoda, Active 17th Century - Wu, Xueyan - Zhu, Shaoben
- Date: 1645
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MapShandong tong sheng yun he quan yuan shui li quan tu
山东通省运河泉源水利全图 This map, folded as in accordion pleating, a style also known as sutra binding, has no frames on the pages. Executed in the traditional Chinese painting style, the map depicts the Grand…- Date: 1644
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MapBrazil: of the Noble Class, of Loves, and of Letters....
Brasilia: front generis nobilitate armerum et litterarum This map of Brazil is the work of Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), one of the most famous Dutch cartographers. Blaeu was trained as a lawyer, but eventually joined the Amsterdam studio of his…- Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapGeographic Chart of the Kingdom of Chile.
Tabula Geographica Regni Chile This map by the Chilean Jesuit priest Alonso de Ovalle (1601--51) appears in his book Histórica Relación del Reyno de Chile (Historical narration about the kingdom of Chile), considered the first history…- Contributor: Ovalle, Alonso De - Society of Jesus
- Date: 1646-01-01
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MapA Chart of Magellan by the Route of Tierra del Fuego.
Tabula Magellanica qua Terrae del Fuego This map of "Magellanica," the land south of the Strait of Magellan, is by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, a leading Dutch cartographer and map publisher and the founder of a family of distinguished…- Contributor: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Date: 1640-01-01
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MapGeographic Description of the Travels of the Apostles and the Journeys of Paul, Together with the …
Geographische beschryvinghe van de wandeling der Apostelen ende de reysen Pauli, Mitsgaders de Landen ende Rÿcken daer sÿ het Evangelium eerst hebben verkondight This striking map created in 1642 by Nicolaes Visscher (1618-79) shows the eastern Mediterranean and environs in the first century AD and the journey of the Apostle Paul from Jerusalem to Rome…- Contributor: Visscher, Nicolaes
- Date: 1642-01-01
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