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Boldly Explore
(2015)
Although many attribute this iconic image to the Middle Ages, it first appeared in a 19th century work of meteorology. So it's fitting that this book will open a Galileo's World exhibit at the National Weather Center on ...
Maria Cunitz: Kepler's Defender
(2015)
Maria Cunitz was one of the first astronomers to adopt Johann Kepler's astronomy. She made Kepler's achievement easy to grasp, and demonstrated that Kepler's laws were more accurate than anything that had come before. This ...
Orion the Hunter
(2015)
Three stars in a row make up Orion s belt, within a rectangle of four bright stars representing his shoulders and feet. Since Orion's belt of three bright stars lies nearly upon the celestial equator, Orion is visible from ...
Elisabeth Hevelius: Observational Astronomer
(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 ...
Astronomy & Music: Introduction to the Duochord
(2015)
The ancient Pythagoreans envisioned the heavens as celestial spheres rotating according to harmonious music. For Robert Fludd, a seventeenth-century physician, the universe was a monochord, its physical structure unintelligible ...
Darwin at the Library Exhibition
(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” ...
Ordering Wonder: Collections, Curators, and Showmen in Antebellum America
(2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores the development and execution of five museum collections established between the 1793 opening of Charles Willson Peale’s museum in Philadelphia and the opening of the Smithsonian Institution as ...
SCIENCE, ENERGY AND KNOWLEDGE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE SYNTHETIC FUELS IN THE 1970S AND 1980S
(2017-08-01)
Research breeds research. When the environment (politics, human and capital resources, and the demand for the good) is right, research activity compounds itself. The growth rate continues until research activity is at the ...
Identifying Experiential Practices and Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Cookbooks with Open-Access Sourcing
(2021-12-06)
This dissertation serves as a proof of concept to demonstrate how combining SEO-optimized and open access digitized primary sources, popular historical accounts and traditional historiographical methods may open areas of ...
Catherine Whitwell: Astronomy & Creative Writing
(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 ...