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New Exhibit: The Copernican Century
A new exhibit in the lobby of the History of Science Collections opens today: The Copernican Century: A tribute to Robert Westman The exhibit features works by 16th-century astronomers such as Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Regiomontanus, Erasmus Reinhold, Ursus, Gallucci, … Continue reading
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New Exhibit: Near the Heavens
Maria Cunitz, Urania Propitia, “Near the Heavens” (1650) A new exhibit in the lobby of the History of Science Collections opens today: Near the Heavens: Women in science reach for the stars At various times, Oklahoma aviator Jerrie Cobb held … Continue reading
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Ptolemy, Almagest
Ptolemy’s Almagest, the most important work of astronomy for nearly 1500 years, suggests both the richness of the History of Science Collections’ holdings and the need to maintain active acquisitions. The Collections hold more than 50 works of Ptolemy, not … Continue reading
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New exhibit: A Valentine’s Celebration
A new exhibit in the lobby of the History of Science Collections opens today: A Valentine’s Celebration: Matters of the Heart Giovanni Anfossi, Dell’uso ed abuso della cioccolata (Venice, 1779),the wrapper is ornamented with cocoa bean illustrations(more on this item) … Continue reading
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Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday
Today, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, five volumes of Dickens first editions are on display as part of the Winter Holidays exhibit. These books are displayed courtesy of the John and Mary Nichols Rare Books … Continue reading
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Laird on Galileo’s Trial
Public lecture: The Secret of Galileo’s Trial When and where: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:30 – 5 pm, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Harlow Room, BL 521. Who: Dr. W. R. Laird, Mellon Fellow, University of Oklahoma, … Continue reading
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2011 for this blog, in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 32,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Centers of learning
“Libraries were never warehouses of books. They have been and always will be centers of learning. Their central position in the world of learning makes them ideally suited to mediate between the printed and the digital modes of communication.” – … Continue reading
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Winter Holidays exhibit now open
A new exhibit, Winter Holidays, opens today. This exhibit in the lobby of the History of Science Collections offers numerous seasonal items for view, drawn from the History of Science Collections, the John and Mary Nichols Rare Books and Special … Continue reading
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First Facebook, now Twitter
For quite a while we’ve been posting announcements of an ephemeral nature to Facebook, and now there’s a Twitter feed you can follow to receive the same content. Check out the two icons in the upper right portion of this … Continue reading
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Boerhaave Museum, Leiden
New on the website for the Department of the History of Science is a notice by Prof. Rienk Vermij on the possible closing of the Leiden Boerhaave Museum for the History of Science and Medicine. (Read more…)
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GWLA endorses the Berlin Declaration
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), which includes the University of Oklahoma, has just released a resolution expressing “strong and vigorous support” for the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. Read it in its entirety (1 page, pdf): (Source) The Berlin … Continue reading
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Undergraduate research in the Collections – Sarah Werner visit
The student who works with a book in a special collection touches the past. The book comes alive in one’s hands and, to the attentive student, discloses its history. With the new academic major launched this fall by the History … Continue reading
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Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665)
We have recently made available, in its entirety, high resolution images of the most lavishly-illustrated treatise on the Earth in the 17th century:Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665). (Gallery; cf. two-page spreads.) The range of interests displayed by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) … Continue reading
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Undergraduate research in the Collections
This morning’s Oklahoma Daily contains a story about undergraduate research in the Collections. Students supervised by Samuel Huskey, chair of the department of classics and letters, are digitizing and translating Robert Fludd, Technica macrocosmi historia (London, 1618). Fludd, a London … Continue reading
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Manuscriptorium and EBSCO Discovery Service
Manuscriptorium The freely accessible Manuscriptorium digital library, the designated platform for the European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage, provides access to more than 5 million images, at present, of manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, deeds, charters and more, … Continue reading
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Exhibit lobby and Harlow room
The calendar below displays times when the Harlow Room (red) or the Lobby Exhibit (green) are reserved for group visits. History of science speakers and special events are listed in blue. It is not necessary to make a reservation to … Continue reading
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Charles Darwin, Soil Ecologist
Darwin@the Library info | Exhibit brochure (pdf) Charles Darwin, Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, 1881; F1357 The last work Darwin published is one of his least-known, but his study of mold and earthworms drew upon his … Continue reading
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Charles Darwin, Botanist
Darwin@the Library info | Exhibit brochure (pdf) Charles Darwin regarded natural selection as a “universal law of nature.” Its comprehensive scope led him to investigate the natural world with a breadth of vision that encompassed both plants and animals. Darwin’s … Continue reading
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Darwin on the Emotions
Darwin@the Library info | Exhibit brochure (pdf) Charles Darwin, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), F1142. In 1872, to illustrate continuities between humans and animals, Charles Darwin explored the expression of the emotions. Dogs have an amazing … Continue reading
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