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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.

    • The Accademia dei Lincei and the Apiarium : 

      Kidwell, Clara Sue. (1970)

    • 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. ...

    • Apiarium 

      Lynx Open Ed (1625)
      In this first publication of observations made with a microscope, Cesi and Stelluti studied the anatomy of the bee. The text includes classical references to bees as well as new knowledge, integrated in a tabular outline. The ...

    • Apiarium (White Background) 

      Lynx Open Ed (1625)
      In this first publication of observations made with a microscope, Cesi and Stelluti studied the anatomy of the bee. The text includes classical references to bees as well as new knowledge, integrated in a tabular outline. ...

    • Astronomy & Music: Introduction to the Duochord 

      Annis, Jonathan (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Banned Books of the Scientific Revolution 

      Magruder, Kerry (2017)
      The three most famous banned books of the Copernican revolution, listed in chronological order, are On the Revolutions of Copernicus (1543); a Commentary on the biblical book of Job by Zúñiga, a theologian in Salamanca; ...

    • 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 

      Flammarion, Camille; Magruder, Susanna (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Coma Berenices Learning Leaflet 

      Magruder, Kerry (2018)
      Coma Berenices is the only one of the modern 88 official constellations named after a historical figure. It represents the hair of Berenice, Queen of Egypt (267 221 BCE), who reigned with Ptolemy III Euergetes. Learn more ...

    • "Constellation Coloring Pages" adapted from Johann Bode, "Uranographia" (1801) 

      (2016)
      Johann Bode, director of the Observatory of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, produced the last of the four major celestial atlases in which artful depictions of constellation figures appear alongside the most up-to-date ...

    • 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” ...

    • Della Porta: Natural Magic 

      Galliart, Scott; Purkaple, Brent (2017)
      Giambattista della Porta was one of the most widely known European Renaissance magicians. In 1558, at the age of twenty three, the first edition of his book Natural Magic was printed. Due to its popularity and Della Porta ...

    • Discorso particolare intorno all'unisono 

      Galilei, Vincenzo; Annis, Jonathan A. (2016)
      Vincenzo Galilei was among the first music theorists to advocate for a new system of tuning based on performance, instead of the mathematical principles of music set fourth by Pythagoras. Pythagorean music theory bases ...