Montesquieu claimed to have found the secret of Britain’s success in maintaining a stable government. He considered that the power of any state could be separated into three main parts: a legislative power to make the laws, an executive power to enforce them, and a...
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton (1642-1727) London, J. Streater, 1687 First edition QA803 A2 1687 The foundation work on dynamics and gravitation, this book was the culminating intellectual and scientific achievement of the Enlightenment. Although Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler had shown the way by describing the phenomena they observed,...
THANKSGIVING IN THE MARLAND FAMILY Boston: H. Hoyt, 1863 GT4975 T45 This children’s book suggests the importance of the spirit of giving as part of Thanksgiving Day. Source: Rare Books (OpenBook) Blog ...
Thank you to our colleague Robert Behra for sending us this article from The Guardian: “Old Spines-Why We Love The Smell of Secondhand Books”. “…lignin is a polymer that stops trees from drooping, and is chemically related to the molecule vanillin. ‘When made into paper and stored for...
The covers of a book enclose worlds constructed of text and image. To open a book is to expose the intimate details of story, experience and idea. Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library since 1995, the Book Arts Program champions wide-ranging explorations of the...
Occasional reflections was ridiculed by Jonathan Swift in A meditation upon a Broom-Stick and by Samuel Butler in An occasional reflection on Dr. Charleton’s Feeling a Dog’s Pulse at Gresham College....