“…yours until the final ghosts from darkened fires rise like filaments on the low blue-grey edge of light and air, to shine like music must, momentarily, to the blind.” Autumn’s End Christopher Buckley Lagniappe Press, 1992 PS3552 U339 A98 1992 Printed in October 1992 with 12 point Dante. The poem first appeared in “Hubbub,” Fall 1992....
“It has been a most usual thing for the bewitched Persons, at the same time the Spectres representing the Witches, troubled them, to be visited with Apparitions of Ghosts, pretending to have been Murdered by the Witches then represented. And sometimes the Confessions of the...
“For no adornment is above the Word of God, through which you look upon your wife as a gift from God.” Eine Hochzeit Predigt, Uber den Spruch zun… Martin Luther (1483-1546) Wittenberg: Hans Weiss, 1531 First edition This is a wedding sermon preached by Martin Luther for an unnamed couple...
The first edition of this bull was printed by Melchior Lotter in 1522. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church on January 3, 1521. On April 15, Maundy Thursday, Pope Leo X published the bull “Consueverunt Romani Pontifices,” in which Luther’s name...
“She noticed that the girls and boys in the books were not altogether like the girls and boys who played with her in the Square and came to tea with her. The children in the books were wonderfully brave and clever; and when they were...
“Across the distance there comes a change. The horizon is melted away; the mountains are all blurred. Distant chains appear to part and to become peaked islands. The sky seems water; the water, sky. Soon substance and shadow are indistinguishable. In plainer words, it is...
Isaac Bromley-Dulfano and Luise Poulton love Galileo — photograph by Ben Bromley Thank you, Dean Henry White, College of Science and Dean Darryl Butt, College of Mines and Earth Sciences for the opportunity to present at the Frontiers of Science, last Thursday night. Rare Books had a...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="233"] Liber Moamin falconrii de Scientia venandi per aves et quadrupeds[/caption] “In quantum enim sunt reges non habent propriam delectationem nisi venationem” — Moamin “A wise falcon hides his talons.” — Proverb Facsimile. The so-called “Wiener Moamin” was created on the Italian penisula in the...
“A library is as much a scientific instrument as a telescope.” — Luise Poulton Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World now online. Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early masters of movable type...
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing” THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986 First published in 1845, Poe’s narrative poem The Raven tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, mourning the loss of his love named...