Three Research Journeys

This exhibition, curated by three former MPhil students in HPS, explores research they conducted over the course of their MPhil year using books and objects from the Whipple Library and Whipple Museum.

• World Pieces: America’s ‘Portrait’ and the Environmental View of Landsat
  Amelia Urry
• The Quest for “Perfect Truth”: Embodiment, Objectivity, and Cornelius Varley’s Graphic Telescope
  Xinyi Wen
• Indigenous, authentic, obsolete? ‘Universal’ equinoctial sundials in late 19th century India
  Francis Newman

The exhibition will be on display in the Whipple Library until late February 2021.

With thanks to Francis Newman, Amelia Urry and Xinyi Wen (HPSM MPhil 2019-20) for curating this display, the staff of the Whipple Museum for the loan of Wh.0123 and Wh.5907 for this exhibition, and the staff of the University Library for the loan of Portrait U.S.A.

Title image: Compass dial, Wh.0123. Whipple Museum of the History of Science.