“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great...
"We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter, if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not, and that the Universe extends so in infinitum." -- Cyrano de Bergerac Elements d'astronomieJacques...
"There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be able to dig out the veins easily and advantageously, and...
“Newton’s design was to make me come to him, force me to comply with his humors, and flatter him and cry him up as Dr. Halley did. He thought to work me to his ends by putting me to extraordinary charges. Those that have begun...
“Non ex libris solum, sed ex rebus ipsis scientiam quaeritis.” Gvilielmi gilberti colcestrensis, medici londinensis, de magnete magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; phsiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata William Gilbert (1540-1603) Londini: excvdebat P. Short, 1600 First edition QC751 G44 1600 This the only published work of...
“And that we may not be decieved by false Notions which we have embraced without Examining, or that we have received upon the Authority of others; we ought to call in Question all such things as have an Appearance of Falshood, that by a new...
“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...
Thursday, September 28, 2017 ASB 220 Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early...
Click to view slideshow. The J. Willard Marriott Library has a great collection of seminal science works in its Rare Books Department. Visit level 3 of the library to see images from some of these books. Join us for a lecture on September 28. Frontiers of Science ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From...
Remember snow? Winter is coming! Last January, Dean Henry White, College of Science, and Ben Bromley, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, trudged through the snow to Rare Books to look at our first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia (1687) and other books...