Category: Jesuitica

• Darkness at Noon (More or Less)

  Posted on Aug 20th

  Like other special collections libraries prompted by tomorrow’s solar eclipse to post images from their holdings, we weigh in with examples from, […]

• In Honor of the Lunar New Year

  Posted on Jan 28th

  In honor of the lunar new year celebration today, and inspired by a New York Times piece about Shanghai, we show this […]

• What Goes Up …

  Posted on May 18th

  For the next 120 days or so, the elevator to the 9th floor marked “Special Collections | South Stacks” will be undergoing major […]

• 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 […]