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Special Collections overview Accessing Special Collections Whipple Collection Nineteenth-Century Collections Phrenology Collection Foster Pamphlet Collection Gerd Buchdahl Collection Whipple Library Books Blog

Exhibitions and Displays

Exhibitions and Displays overview Remedial Reading: Medicine in the Whipple Library Collection The Art of Bookbinding 200 years of Scientific Publishing at the Cambridge Philosophical Society Discovering Past Readers Learning that Incomparable Art in The Most Famous & Ancient Metropolis Prohibition of Science: Banned Books and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum Beets, Beets, Beets: Cambridge and the Rise of British Sugar Beet The Magic Lantern Kelvin: More than just a unit of temperature A Bird's-Eye View

Three Research Journeys

Three Research Journeys overview World Pieces: America’s ‘Portrait’ and the Environmental View of Landsat The Quest for “Perfect Truth”: Embodiment, Objectivity, and Cornelius Varley’s Graphic Telescope Indigenous, authentic, obsolete? ‘Universal’ equinoctial sundials in late 19th century India

Conflicting Chronologies

Conflicting Chronologies overview Geochronology Egyptian Prehistory, Philology and the Bible Britain in Egypt Geology and Egyptian Antiquity Establishing Predynastic Egypt Acknowledgements

Curating the Chemical Elements

Curating the Chemical Elements overview Julius Lothar Meyer Meyer's First Table of Elements Graphical Representations Theoretical Perspectives References

Personifying Plague

Personifying Plague overview Case One: A Civic Disease Case Two: Plague in the Tropics Case Three: Yersinia pestis

Marginalia

Marginalia overview J F Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle F H Bradley, Appearance and Reality F H Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality S Sutton, An Historical Account of a New Method for Extracting the Foul Air Out of Ships J Ray, Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium R Boyle, Medicinal Experiments L Digges, A Geometrical Practical Treatise Named Pantometria G C Young and W H Young, The Theory of Sets of Points T H Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology

Exploring Deep History

Exploring Deep History overview James Parkinson, Organic remains of a former world Georges Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, Description geologique des environs de Paris William Buckland, Reliquiæ diluvianæ Mary Buckland, View of the Axmouth landslip Scrope and von Leonhard, Volcanoes Gideon Mantell, The geology of the south-east of England Louis Figuier, La terre avant le deluge

Staging the History of Science

Staging the History of Science overview Act I Act II Act III

...it is not difficult to define a BIRD

...it is not difficult to define a BIRD overview Early Works Wood's The Handy Naturalist Charles Waterton Traité élémentaire d'ornithologie William Henry Hudson Rennie and Stoner Audubon The postcards

Writing Science

Writing Science overview Institutions de physique A compendious system of astronomy Conversations on chemistry On the connexion of the physical sciences 7 divisions of Life Studies in evolution and biology A popular history of astronomy The theory of sets of points

Exploring Anatomy Books

Exploring Anatomy Books overview The anatomie of the bodie of man The anatomy of the human body abridg'd The anatomist's vade-mecum Quain's anatomy Sobotta's Atlas and Cunningham's Manual Icones oculi humani Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles Great artists and great anatomists The anatomy and philosophy of expression

Sir George Howard Darwin

Sir George Howard Darwin overview A treatise on solid geometry An elementary treatise on the lunar theory The elements of the theory of astronomy Thomson and Tait's Treatise on natural philosophy Peter Guthrie Tait Tides and Waves Papers by William & James Thomson The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system Satellite evolution

Colour Science

Colour Science overview Robert Boyle and experiments on colours Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks A treatise on optics James Clerk Maxwell Colour measurement and mixture Joseph Lovibond and the Tintometer An elementary manual for students Curiosities of light and sight

Microscopy in Print

Microscopy in Print overview Microscopic illustrations The microscope, and some of the wonders it reveals Microscopy books by Mary Ward Half-hours with the microscope Microscopy and Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Objects for the microscope

Exhibitions Archive

Exhibitions Archive overview Darwin anniversary book display Adventures in the unknown Early 19th-century natural history and the diamond lens microscope The steel hand in the velvet glove Know thyself: phrenology in the Whipple Library

Reserve Gallery exhibition

Reserve Gallery exhibition overview Rev. J.G. Wood Phrenology Collection: Joseph Millott Severn Phrenology Collection: George Combe Robert Boyle Collection 19th-Century Pamphlets Project: Foster Pamphlet Collection Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Microscopes: 19th-century children’s books Time

Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution

Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution overview Martianus Capella and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Gregor Reisch and Robert Fludd Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott Francis Bacon and the Royal Society Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton and Newtonianism

Isaac Newton and Newtonianism overview Newton and the scientific establishment John Theophilus Desaguliers: popularising Newton Newton for children: Tom Telescope Newton for all Newton for ladies

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