De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andrea Vesalius (1514-1564) was an exquisite piece of creativity that blended observation; organization of information, format, typography; and illustration into an integrated whole to accurately describe the human body. The intense collaboration between scientist, artist, and printer was unprecedented. Prior...
"For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre But al that he myghte of...
The sun, the moon, the stars! The Rare Books Department invites you to a hands-on display of more than one thousand years of cosmological gazing. From Ptolemy to Galileo to Einstein, hold the books that brought the heavens down to earth. Rare Books Classroom J. Willard Marriott Library,...
“There is something moving between us, But we hurtle on in close conjunction for a while.” –from “Eclipse” by Leland Kinsey Eclipses from Trio Leland Kinsey The Janus Press: VT, 2014 N7433.4 A1 T75 2015 From the colophon: “These poems appeared previously in Northern Almanac published by Catamount Arts in St Johnsbury...
“Adore the sun, rising with all his rays, receiving the obeisance of gods and demons, the shining maker of light.” — The Ramayana The Cosmic Sidereal Galactic Abecedarium of the Universe & Other Tangential Ephemera Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek San Diego: Bay Park Press, 2001 N7433.4 R73 C67 2001 From...
Instituzioni Analitiche Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) Milan: Nella Regia-Ducal Corte, 1748 First edition QA35 A27 1748 Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the eldest in a family of at least twenty-one children. Her father, Pietro Agnesi, a wealthy silk merchant, could afford to provide her with some of the best tutors available....
"These questions are not technical questions; they are political and social questions, and the answers given to them may affect all mankind for generations. In thinking about them the men on the project have been thinking as citizens of the United States vitally interested in the welfare...
“…so also can nothing be more unprofitable, than the too customary mode of charging the infant memory with verses, or even chapters of abstract doctrines, or passages, about the true meaning of which, schoolmen themselves have hitherto been divided in opinion.” — from the Preface A...
Photograph by Scott Beadles “The greatest inheritance of man is a posterity; the greatest inheritance of a posterity is a Christian Ancestry – that these greatest inheritances may live in record, this volume is issued.” – From the Title Page of Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah Title:...
La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...