“She noticed that the girls and boys in the books were not altogether like the girls and boys who played with her in the Square and came to tea with her. The children in the books were wonderfully brave and clever; and when they were...
“Across the distance there comes a change. The horizon is melted away; the mountains are all blurred. Distant chains appear to part and to become peaked islands. The sky seems water; the water, sky. Soon substance and shadow are indistinguishable. In plainer words, it is...
Isaac Bromley-Dulfano and Luise Poulton love Galileo — photograph by Ben Bromley Thank you, Dean Henry White, College of Science and Dean Darryl Butt, College of Mines and Earth Sciences for the opportunity to present at the Frontiers of Science, last Thursday night. Rare Books had a...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="233"] Liber Moamin falconrii de Scientia venandi per aves et quadrupeds[/caption] “In quantum enim sunt reges non habent propriam delectationem nisi venationem” — Moamin “A wise falcon hides his talons.” — Proverb Facsimile. The so-called “Wiener Moamin” was created on the Italian penisula in the...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] photograph by Scott Beadles[/caption] “A library is as much a scientific instrument as a telescope.” — Luise Poulton Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World now online. Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one...
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing” THE RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986 First published in 1845, Poe’s narrative poem The Raven tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, mourning the loss of his love named...
“See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands And justifies himself with lifted hands Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.” A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane… John Bunyan (1628-1688) London: Printed for Jo. Harris, at the Harrow, over against the...
“Of a truth I confess they [the tales] are not mine, and if I said otherwise I should lie, but nevertheless I have faithfully set them down according to the manner in which they are told…” Le XIII Piacevoli Notti… Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1480- ca. 1557) In Venetia:...
Thursday, September 28, 2017 ASB 220 Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early...
“He who writes histories must make the efforts that I made and see the land that he is to write about, as I saw it, for so was it done by ancient and modern historians…Very supernatural must be the talented man who will know how...