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Thinking Outside the Sphere Gallery Guide Full Catalog (6.5MB pdf)
The ancient view of the stars, fixed in a crystalline sphere at the boundary of an earth-centered universe, was compelling. This exhibition documents, in books from the time of the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, why the idea of a sphere of stars arose in the first place, and how the research and observations of astronomers finally dissolved it. Scientists began to comprehend the stars as inhabiting vast regions of an ever changing universe.
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The Grandeur of Life
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. When he was fifty years old, in 1859, he published On the Origin of Species, a book destined to radically change our view of the living world. In 2009, we celebrate both the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his great work.
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Paper
Dinosaurs 1824-1969
Dinosaurs have excited the public imagination ever since the
first dinosaur was described in 1824. This exhibition features
original printed materials related to the history of dinosaur
discovery
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Ice: A Victorian Romance
This exhibition explores the Victorian fascination with polar and glacial ice in the period from 1818 to 1860.
In 1818, the British Navy began to send out expeditions in search of a Northwest Passage, broadening the search
around 1840 to include Antarctica. Also around 1840, the glacial theory was proposed and debated, and the ice
at the poles became the key to envisioning the ice ages of the past.
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Out of this
World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
The exhibition features forty-three star atlases and maps,
covering the period from 1482 to 1851. They capture the sweeping
grandeur of the heavens, and are among the most beautiful scientific
books ever made.
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Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt
The French expeditionary force that occupied Egypt under Napoleon's command from July 1798 until 1801 included some of France's
leading scientists. Their work was published as the Description de l'Égypte, which is featured in this exhibition, along with other rare
books that document the story of the French scientific expedition to Egypt.
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Women's Work: Portraits of 12 Scientific Illustrators
Drawn from the collections of the Linda Hall Library and Missouri Botanical Garden Library, this exhibit highlights scientific illustrations by six historic women and demonstrates the strong foundation they built by also presenting the work of six contemporary women scientific illustrators.
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Vulcan's Forge and Fingal's Cave
An exhibition of 66 books and journals, published between 1565 and 1835, on volcanoes, basalt, and the discovery of geological time.
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Centuries
of Civil Engineering
An Exhibition of rare books celebrating the heritage of civil
engineering, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
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Voyages:
Scientific Circumnavigations 1679-1859
The Linda Hall Library's collection of the published monuments
to the great expeditions of the age of sail is featured in this
exhibition.
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The Face
of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo
This is an online version of an exhibition catalog that was
originally published in 1989. Written by William B. Ashworth,
Jr., it won the First Place Award in the annual competition
sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association
of College and Research Libraries.
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