Papers Panel 6. History of Science

Moderator: Ellen Ellickson, Yale University; “Micro-monsters: Printing and Transmitting Newly Visible Worlds”, Shannon K. Supple, William Andrew Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles; ““ Names swallowed by the cold”: Reconstructing the Libraries of Arctic Explorers”, Adam Dos...

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Main Authors: Ellickson, Ellen, Supple, Shannon K., Doskey, Adam, Cagna, Robert
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11213/20532
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Summary:Moderator: Ellen Ellickson, Yale University; “Micro-monsters: Printing and Transmitting Newly Visible Worlds”, Shannon K. Supple, William Andrew Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles; ““ Names swallowed by the cold”: Reconstructing the Libraries of Arctic Explorers”, Adam Doskey, Bentley Rare Book Gallery, Kennesaw State University; “Ephemera Hoping to Save Lives: The United States Breast Cancer Research Stamp”, Robert Cagna, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Charleston Division “Micro-monsters: Printing and Transmitting Newly Visible Worlds”: This paper investigates the transmission of new knowledge made visible through microscopy in the combination of image and text, using as its case study Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, Or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon (London: Printed by J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665). The printing of Micrographia’s text and engravings were heavily mediated by the author himself, whose careful drawings of what he saw beneath his microscope were precisely engraved under his supervision. What potentials for transmission and transformation of that knowledge were made possible through the process of printing? How did visibly precise detail in the engraved rescaling of these minute bodies change how the 17th century experienced the monstrous?; ““ Names swallowed by the cold”: Reconstructing the Libraries of Arctic Explorers”: In the 1960s, the University of Illinois purchased the libraries of Arctic explorers Sir John Richardson and Paul-Louis Mercanton in quick succession at the request of a physiology professor researching Arctic explorers with medical backgrounds. The libraries were broken apart into individual items, classified by subject, and dispersed throughout the university library. This paper describes how these items were brought together again and re-processed as a special collection in the 21st century to promote the study of these explorers’ libraries ...