Early English Books Online (EEBO), 1473–1700[ProQuest] EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
PART I, 1473-1640: Original printings of royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, parliamentary and other public documents are reproduced in this collection. Insight into the lives of ordinary people can also be gained through almanacs and calendars, broadsides and romances, as well as popular pamphlets like The Trail of Witchcraft, showing the true and righte method of discovery (1616).
PART II, 1641-1700: includes early editions of Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, and Margaret Cavendish, books by Newton, Boyle, and Galileo, and so forth.