Category: history of science

• Gallery Talk on March 8 for “Parts and Wholes” Exhibit

  Posted on Feb 21st

  On March 8, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., Judith Kaplan, Ph.D., guest co-curator for the exhibit “Parts and Wholes,” will offer a gallery […]

• Hooke’s Micrographia makes multiple appearances

  Posted on Dec 29th

  The copy in Special Collections of Robert Hooke’s influential Micrographia: Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses [that is, […]

• Geographies

  Posted on Dec 13th

  For this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Meridith Beck Sayre and Nicolas Jacobson, graduate students in history of […]

• Willughby’s turkey

  Posted on Nov 21st

  In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we offer here the turkey from The ornithology of Francis Willughby, as edited for publication […]

• Little books of secrets

  Posted on Oct 12th

  Alerted by a reference in William Eamon’s Science and the secrets of nature: Books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture […]