“The history of the printed word reveals our capacity for brilliance, but it also reveals our capacity for blunder. The printing press is a stage upon which the entire drama of human thought and morality is acted out.” — Rebecca Romney, from Printer’s Error: Irreverent...
Last semester, Rare Books loaned six of its medieval manuscript facsimiles to the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in collaboration with an art history course taught by Professor Alexa Sand. The upper-level course, “Special Topics Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Rare Books...
“…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....
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...
“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...
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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...
New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam, edited by Sobhi Bouderbala, Sylvie Denoix, and Matt Malczycki, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017 Papers presented at the fifth conference of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), held in Tunisia in 2012. The cover...
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...
La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...