Section 1: The Moon and the Telescope
Works listed here were on display in Bizzell Memorial Library (Fall 2015, Summer-Spring 2016) and also at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Spring 2016).
Galileo, Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610), photograph of Moon engravings
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William Gilbert, De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (Amsterdam, 1651)
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Francesco Fontana, Novae coelestium terrestriumq[ue] rerum observationes (Naples, 1646)
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Johann Hevelius, Selenographia (Gdansk, 1647)
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Giambattista Riccioli, Almagestum novum (Bologna, 1651), Part 1
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Chérubin d’Orléans, La dioptrique oculaire (Paris, 1671)
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James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, Der Mond (Leipzig, 1876)
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