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    • The Abacus: Introduction 

      Magruder, Kerry (2016)
      The Abacus was an instrument useful for various mathematical computations. This learning leaflet provides step-by-step instructions for the basic operations of the abacus.
    • Activities Handout for Constellations 

      Magruder, Kerry; Purkaple, Brent (2016)
      Suggested activities to be used in conjunction with Constellation Coloring Pages and Card Sets.
    • Ada Lovelace: First Computer Programmer 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      In Ada Lovelace's translation of one of the first introductions to Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine," she included at length analyses of the significance and potential of Babbage's machine. These explanations, totaling ...
    • The Anatomy of a Book 

      Magruder, Kerry (2016)
      In order to understand the history of a book, it is important to understand the structure and organization of a book - it's anatomy. This learning leaflet explains the basic parts of a book through some simple exercises. ...
    • Astronomy in Safavid Persia: Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿĀmilī and the Patronage of Science 

      Mahdavi, Younes (2021-08-05)
      This dissertation offers the first account of a scientific tradition in theoretical astronomy (ʿilm al-hayʾa) initiated by Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547-1621), a polymath and a chief jurisconsult in the Safavid monarchy ...
    • Augustine: The Bible and Science 

      Magruder, Kerry (2016)
      Saint Augustine discussed the relationship between religion and science in the 5th century. Such views became highlight influential throughout the history of science for those interested in explaining the relationship ...
    • The Bible and Science: Calvin, Newton & Other Writers 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Quotations from various important Christian interpreters about the relationship between the Bible and Science. Aimed at helping learners differentiate between four key frameworks of relating the Bible and Science.
    • Bode's Star Atlas: Uranographia, 1801 

      Magruder, Kerry (2016)
      This beautiful star atlas fused artistic beauty and scientific precision, the last of the four major star atlases in which artful depictions of constellation figures appear alongside the most up to date scientific information. ...
    • Boldly Explore: Camille Flammarion (1888) 

      Magruder, Kerry; Magruder, Susanna (2015)
      Science 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 have reprinted this illustration ...
    • Catherine Whitwell: Astronomy & Creative Writing 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Catherine Whitwell wrote an introduction to the night sky as a dialogue between a mother and daughter. It contains 23 engraved plates drawn by Whitwell herself, including four hand colored folding plates. One of the plates ...
    • Confessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Optics 

      Purkaple, Brent (2022-05)
      This dissertation explores the investigation and explanation of optics among prominent members of the Society of Jesus during the early modern period. In doing so it aims to explain why it was that optics became one of the ...
    • Darwin at the Library Exhibition 

      Magruder, Kerry (2011)
      An Exhibit Guide for the "Darwin at the Library” exhibition held at the University of Oklahoma Bizzell Memorial Library, Summer 2011, comprised of the Darwin first editions that were displayed in the “Darwin at the Museum” ...
    • Elisabeth Hevelius: Observational Astronomer 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Elisabeth Hevelius, wife of Johann Hevelius, was an astronomer in her own right. They worked together in the observatory of their Gdansk home to measure angular widths and distances with a great sextant, which required two ...
    • Encounters with Alcabitius: Reading Arabic Astrology in Premodern Europe 

      Gaida, Margaret (2017-08-01)
      This project examines the transmission and reception in medieval and early modern Europe of the Introduction to Astrology, written by the tenth-century Arabic author al-Qabīṣī and known to his Latin readers as Alcabitius. ...
    • Fables in Natural History: An Examination of the Allegorical in the Development of Natural History Texts 

      Rottinghaus, Fiachra (2024-05-10)
      The Latin bestiary is known not only for its striking illustrations but also for the extensive religious commentary which accompanies the description of nearly every animal. While there is debate over whether the bestiary ...
    • FISH FACTS: DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE 

      Scearce, Carolyn (2019)
      This dissertation chronicles the disciplinary development of ichthyology through the work of three prominent nineteenth-century naturalists: Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and Albert Günther ...
    • Florence Nightingale: Professionalized Health Care 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Florence Nightingale championed social reform and the organization of nursing as a profession. During the Crimean War, she organized the care of injured soldiers, making the rounds at night as the ÐLady with the lamp.Ð Her ...
    • Galileo's World Discussion Guide 

      Magruder, Kerry (2014-12-29)
      A discussion guide organized around the book, "Galileo: A Very Short Introduction," by Stillman Drake. It is designed in conjunction with the Galileo's World Exhibition at the University of Oklahoma to be used as an ...
    • High Contrast Imaging of Planet-forming Disks with Extreme Adaptive Optics Systems 

      Lawson, Kellen (2022)
      Circumstellar disks serve as benchmark systems to study how and where exoplanets form. With the advent of ground-based extreme adaptive optics (AO) facilities, we have entered a revolutionary era for disk studies. It is ...
    • Hildegard of Bingen: An Abbess for Health Care 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of convents at Rupertsberg and Elbingen in the 12th century, explained their herbal remedies and medical procedures in her book, Physica. In addition to this work on medicine, Hildegard wrote ...