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The current exhibit in Special Collections, “Parts and Wholes,” explores part/whole relationships, weaving together examples from the sciences and from print culture. […]
An exhibition entitled “Nobility and newcomers in Renaissance Ireland,” which explores the Ireland of Shakespeare’s time, opened on January 19, 2013, at […]
December 29, 2012, marked the 40th anniversary of the last issue of the original LIFE magazine. An exhibit in the 1st-floor lobby […]
The copy in Special Collections of Robert Hooke’s influential Micrographia: Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses [that is, […]
One of the mainstays of the Peter Pauper Press was the slim cookbook, attractively designed, and usually running to 60-some pages. From […]
For this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Meridith Beck Sayre and Nicolas Jacobson, graduate students in history of […]
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we offer here the turkey from The ornithology of Francis Willughby, as edited for publication […]
As the nation watches election returns, we call your attention to an example of political print culture from an another hotly contested […]
Alerted by a reference in William Eamon’s Science and the secrets of nature: Books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture […]
A book from Special Collections entitled A practical essay on flower painting in water colours by Edward Pretty (London: For S. and […]
It is a pleasure to launch the Special Collections blog with the announcement of a gallery talk by Rachel Melis at 4 […]