Monthly Archives: March 2011

Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

Google’s logo on its classic search page today honors the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen. Bunsen, whose research interests included gases, photochemistry and spectroscopy, emphasized an experimental approach. As every general chemistry student knows from their use of Bunsen burners, … Continue reading →

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Animated Anatomies at Duke University

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Animated Anatomies, an exhibit curated by Valeria Finucci and Maurizio Rippa-Bonati, will open to public viewing in early April at Duke University. A companion website is now available, offering photographs and videos of these visually stunning and technically complex anatomical … Continue reading →

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Another Baldi manuscript: The Cronica autograph

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

Recently we made available a manuscript of an unpublished work on sundials by Bernardino Baldi that had been missing since 1783. The OU History of Science Collections hold a second Baldi manuscript: his autograph copy of Cronica, a 16th-century history … Continue reading →

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More than a Century of Trees

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Arbor Day is March 28th! Don’t miss the exhibit in Bizzell Memorial Library, and the online exhibition: More than a Century of Trees – From David Ross Boyd to David L. Boren . “I could not visualize a treeless university … Continue reading →

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Lost manuscript on sundials

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Bernardino Baldi (1553-1617), a celebrated Italian polymath, is known to have written a treatise on sun dials and timekeeping. However, this treatise was never published and, since 1783, it has been considered lost. Now we are happy to announce that … Continue reading →

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Mars: Earliest detailed sketches

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

The Collections have recently acquired a rare 1666 first edition of three separately issued broadsides (foglie volante) in which Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini) reported his observations of Mars, including the first detailed sketches of its … Continue reading →

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Update: Jun Fudano and Yasu Furukawa

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Update from Dr. Jun Fudano and Yasu Furukawa, OU History of Science alumni – From Yasu Furukawa: Dear Steve, Thank you for your warm note. We were shocked by the earthquake and tsunami on Friday. I was then on campus … Continue reading →

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Incunabula in the Bavarian State Library

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Works published in Europe from 1454 through 1500 are called incunabula. A project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to digitize the incunabula of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich has just crossed the threshold of one million digital pages. … Continue reading →

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