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Flammarion 1888
Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888) Meteorology is a quest of discovery, the challenge of boldly exploring where no one has gone before. That is the appeal and rhetorically durable theme which has made this woodcut so appealing. Many … Continue reading
Urania’s Mirror 1824
Urania’s Mirror (London 1825), a boxed set of 32 cards; with Jehoshaphat Aspin, A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy (London 1825), 2d ed. Constellation figures, as in this boxed set of 32 constellation cards, make learning the constellations easy. Each card … Continue reading
Tennyson 1843
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poems (London, 1843), 2 vols. “Many a night I saw the Pleiades rising thro’ the mellow shade, glitter like a swarm of fire-flies Tangled in a silver braid.” “Locksley Hall,” 5th couplet.
Topsell 1658
Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (London, 1658) Topsell’s natural history includes both familiar and exotic creatures, drawn from sources both new and old. Topsell describes the horse, reindeer and chameleon. He portrays the magnificent appearance of the rhinoceros … Continue reading
Gerard 1636
John Gerard, The Herball (London, 1636), 3d ed. Nutrition from the Americas: Gerard, an estate manager for Queen Elizabeth’s chief executive, was in contact with naturalists around the world who sent him both plants and soil to grow them in. … Continue reading
Gerard 1597
John Gerard, The Herball (London, 1597) Gerard directed the gardens of William Cecil (Lord Burghley), Queen Elizabeth’s chief executive. In this capacity, Gerard maintained contacts with naturalists around the world who sent him both exotic plants and the soil to … Continue reading
Fuchs 1551
Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium (Lyon, 1551) Herbals were sometimes hand colored in select copies. They might be issued both in large folios and in small, economical, hand-sized formats like this one. The small format was useful beyond the study … Continue reading
Fuchs 1542
Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium (Basel, 1542) Fuchs extracted the best knowledge available from ancient sources, yet he gave each plant a German name as well as the traditional Latin. This work contains descriptions of 500 plants, 400 of which were native … Continue reading
Crescenzi 1471
Pietro de’ Crescenzi, Ruralium commodorum (Augsburg, 1471) The Advantages of Country Living This is the earliest published work on agriculture, a manual for managing a feudal estate. It is an ancestor to the early printed herbals. It explains what plants … Continue reading
What is a Participatory Exhibit?
Focus Questions for Galileo’s World Is the intended audience the university or scholarly community or is it designed for broad public engagement? The theme of Galileo’s world was “bringing worlds together.” We connected the World of OU with the World … Continue reading
