Section 1: Renaissance of Discovery
This exhibit samples a variety of works which represent the comprehensive scope of subject areas and modes of inquiry in the Scientific Revolution and at OU today. They illustrate the motto of Tycho Brahe: “Looking up, I look down.” By this phrase, Tycho referred to the interconnectedness of inquiries, as he himself sought to coordinate the study of astronomy with chemistry and medicine.
Tycho Brahe and Elias Morsing, Diarium astrologicum (Uraniborg, 1586)
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Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, Theatrum mundi (Venice, 1588)
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Bernardino Baldi, Cronica de Matematici (ca. 1596), ms.
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Giambattista della Porta, De furtivis literarum notis (Naples, 1563)
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Adriaan Metius, De genuino usu utriusque globi tractatus (Franeker, 1624)
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Fortunio Liceti, Litheosphorus, sive, De lapide Bononiensi lucem (Udine, 1640)
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Niels Steno, Canis carchariae dissectum caput, appendix to Elementorum myologiae specimen (Florence, 1667)
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Levinus Vincent, Wondertooneel der Nature (Amsterdam, 1706-1715)
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Maria Sybilla Merian, Erucarum ortus (Amsterdam, 1717)
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