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Edition Open Access
The Research Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has launched a new publishing initiative: Edition Open Access. With a strong editorial board to oversee publications and peer review, this initiative provides a venue for publication … Continue reading
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ProQuest expands EEBO with the Wellcome Library
For historians of science, EEBO means two things: first, EEBO, Early English Books Online, and now Early European Books Online. ProQuest has announced that they are scanning 15,500 volumes from the Wellcome Library for Early European Books Online, which comprises … Continue reading
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Chymical Wedding
Current Exhibit: Chemistry: From Alchemy to Radioactivity General exhibit information Brochure Scavenger hunt We are delighted to add a rare work to the History of Science Collections in tribute to the OU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School … Continue reading
Marie Curie and IYC 2011
The International Year of Chemistry 2011 celebration this year recognizes the centennial of Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of Radium and Polonium. Various publications of Marie Curie are on display in the current exhibit, … Continue reading
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Chemistry: From Alchemy to Radioactivity
A new exhibit in the lobby of the History of Science Collections opens today: Chemistry: From Alchemy to Radioactivity . This exhibit recognizes the University of Oklahoma Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials … Continue reading
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Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday
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
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
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
More than a Century of Trees
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
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
Mars: Earliest detailed sketches
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
Update: Jun Fudano and Yasu Furukawa
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
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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Visiting Fellow: Francesco Gerali
Francesco Gerali in the History of Science Collectionswith Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia (Venice, 1748; Italian translation). Please join us in welcoming Dr. Francesco Gerali, a visiting scholar from Italy, who comes to the University of Oklahoma with a Mellon fellowship to … Continue reading
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Incunabula
What is the oldest book in the History of Science Collections? The Collections hold manuscripts written before Gutenberg inaugurated the age of printing ca. 1454, but the oldest printed book in the Collections dates from 1467. Works printed up through … Continue reading
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Medical Heritage Library
Several large history of medicine libraries in the U.S. have begun a collaborative digital project called The Medical Heritage Library, as described in their blog: http://www.medicalheritage.org. The Medical Heritage Library promotes open access to historical resources in medicine, with 8,500 … Continue reading
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Creating a web portal for the history of science
Have you ever wondered if the text you need might be online but you just can’t seem to find it? One tip is to click the “Digital Projects” tab in the right margin of this blog to see descriptions of … Continue reading
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Online Galleries
The Online Galleries of the University of Oklahoma Libraries offer 80,000 high resolution images of plates, engravings, portraits, title pages and maps from the holdings of the History of Science Collections. Images are captured at a quality that is easier … Continue reading
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Kepler and the snowflake
Today when the University has shut down because of this beautiful snowfall, let’s remember Johann Kepler, one of the most innovative astronomers who ever lived. Yet his contributions reached far beyond the realm of astronomy – to meteorology, mathematics, geology, … Continue reading
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The Archimedes Project
The Archimedes Project is constructing a comprehensive library of works in physical science printed during the Scientific Revolution. The project is also the focal point for the application to the history of science of the linguistic technologies pioneered by the … Continue reading
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