Category: digitizing projects

• Green Green — It’s Green, They Say

  Posted on Aug 26th

  In celebration of the lush landscapes of summer, and with a nod to the first track of the The New Christy Minstrel’s […]

• Aldo Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

  Posted on Mar 8th

  This weekend’s community reading of Aldo Leopold’s Sand county almanac at the UW-Madison Arboretum prompts us to highlight the rich resources related to […]

• Snow Supplement

  Posted on Dec 23rd

  Since we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s […]

• Secrets Reveal’d

  Posted on Dec 11th

  We are delighted to announce that a digital version of our copy of the intriguingly titled Secrets reveal’d — with copious annotations by […]

• Last Week for Exhibit “On the Sunny Side”

  Posted on Oct 1st

  This will be the last week for our exhibit “On the Sunny Side,” showcasing books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from […]

• Image from Kircher’s “Ars magna lucis et umbrae” Featured in New Book

  Posted on Aug 1st

  A large foldout engraving from our copy of Athanasius Kircher’s Ars magna lucis et umbrae, in X. libros digesta, published in Amsterdam […]

• “Jesuits and Visual Culture”: Center for Early Modern Studies Conference in Special Collections

  Posted on May 4th

  On May 7, 2013, Special Collections will host a full-day session of a conference entitled ” ‘Spiritual Optiks‘: Jesuits and Visual Culture.” This conference, […]

• Geographies

  Posted on Dec 13th

  For this year’s annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Meridith Beck Sayre and Nicolas Jacobson, graduate students in history of […]

• Little books of secrets

  Posted on Oct 12th

  Alerted by a reference in William Eamon’s Science and the secrets of nature: Books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture […]