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Book of the Week – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

30 Monday Nov 2015

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Age of Reason, Albert Einstein, alchemy, Alexander Pope, Aristotle, astronomy, calculus, Copernicus, Edmund Halley, Enlightenment, Galielo, gravity, history of science, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, laws of motion, Leibniz, London, mathematics, Principia, telescope, The University of Utah, theory of relativity, William Wordsworth

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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
London, J. Streater, 1687
First edition
QA803 A2 1687

Although Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler had shown the way by describing the phenomena they observed, Isaac Newton explained the underlying universal laws of those phenomena. Newton’s theories overthrew the subjective interpretations of nature that had dominated science and natural philosophy since the time of Aristotle and ushered in the Age of Reason. By age forty-three, Newton had invented calculus, broken white light into its component colors, and built a telescope whose design is still used today. When he was forty-seven he published the book that profoundly changed the way we see the world and established his brilliance as an astronomer and mathematician. It is likely that no more than three hundred copies of the first edition were printed.

Principia gave us the three laws of motion, defined gravity, and provided the precise mathematical equations by which it could be measured. Edmund Halley was instrumental in getting Principia into print. Halley wheedled, flattered and bullied Newton, a recluse, into preparing his manuscript. Halley paid the cost of printing it out of his own pocket. Leibniz admired Newton’s math but was appalled by his fascination with alchemy. Of the birth of the Age of Reason, Alexander Pope wrote, “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night;/God said ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.” William Wordsworth wrote of Newton, “for ever Voyaging thro’ strange seas of Thought, alone.” Albert Einstein said that Newton “determined the course of western thought, research, and practice like no one else before or since.”

In the twenty-first century, Principia is still considered one of the greatest single contributions in the history of science.

University of Utah copy: Second and third books printed by different printers, evidenced by different type in the headings and a break in paging between the two books. Diagram on p. 22

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We give thanks

26 Thursday Nov 2015

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Boston, Marland Family, Thanksgiving

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THANKSGIVING IN THE MARLAND FAMILY
Boston: H. Hoyt, 1863
GT4975 T45

This children’s book suggests the importance of the spirit of giving as part of Thanksgiving Day.

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We recommend — “Old Spines-Why We Love The Smell of Secondhand Books

25 Wednesday Nov 2015

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rare books, Robert Behra, The Guardian

Thank you to our colleague Robert Behra for sending us this article from The Guardian:
“Old Spines-Why We Love The Smell of Secondhand Books”.

“…lignin is a polymer that stops trees from drooping, and is chemically related to the molecule vanillin. ‘When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores [and our rare book collections!] to smell like good-quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.'”

And thank you, divine providence!

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Book of the Week – OCCASIONAL REFLECTIONS UPON SEVERAL SVBJECTS…

23 Monday Nov 2015

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Jonathan Swift, London, Robert Boyle, Samuel Butler



Occasional Reflections Upon Several Svbjects…
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
London: Printed by W. Wilson for H. Herrington, 1665
First edition
PN6330 B65 1665

Occasional reflections was ridiculed by Jonathan Swift in A meditation upon a Broom-Stick and by Samuel Butler in An occasional reflection on Dr. Charleton’s Feeling a Dog’s Pulse at Gresham College. Robert Boyle, a founder of the Royal Society of London, identified “elements” and is considered the father of chemistry. He was interested in going beyond mere discourse about nature. Science could and would raise the levels of material existence. Let them laugh.

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Her Campus at Utah — Its Time to Visit the Fourth Floor

16 Monday Nov 2015

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderand, American Institutions, Common Sense, Gutenberg Bible, Her Campus at Utah, Kristen Woicek, Lewis Carroll, Luise Poulton, Marie Curie, Marriott Library, rare books, Reformation, Revolutionary War, Thomas Paine, Traite de Radioactivite, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Its Time to Visit the Fourth Floor

Kristen Woicek posted this advice today on “Her Campus at Utah,”
“While there I met Luise Poulton, the Managing Curator of Rare Books, she is anything but intimidating. She loves what she does and I strongly encourage collegiettes to make time and their way up to the Rare Books office and talk to her.”

Kristen mentions several pieces from the rare book collections:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Title page

Marie Curie’s Traite de Radioactivite
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A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible
Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455

Common Sense
Common Sense, 1776 Cover

Come see these and many others.

Thanks for the shout out, Kristen!

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Book of the Week — Paradise Lost

16 Monday Nov 2015

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Bernard Lens, Christian, engravings, God, Henry Aldrich, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, John Baptista de Medina, John Dryden, John Milton, Miles Flesher, Oliver Cromwell, pagan, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Richard Bentley, Robert White, Roman Catholic Church, Satan, The University of Utah


PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS…
John Milton (1608-1674)
Printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bentley, at the Post-Office in Russell-street, 1688
First illustrated edition
PR3560 1688

John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first printed in 1667, in part, perhaps as a reaction to the defeat of Oliver Cromwell’s revolution and the restoration of the monarchy. Milton attempted to reconcile elements of pagan and Christian tradition, portraying Satan as an unlikable but sympathetic character who defied a tyrannical God and waged unsuccessful war against him. In spite of this, the Roman Catholic Church did not place the work on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum until 1758. This a copy from the first illustrated edition of Paradise Lost. It is also the first edition of the work in folio. University of Utah copy bound with Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV. Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes…(1688). An engraved portrait of Milton by Robert White is bound in opposite to the title page. The portrait includes an epitaph for Milton by John Dryden. Twelve full-paged engravings accompany the text, one at the beginning of each of the twelve books. All of the engravings are tipped in. The illustrations for books III, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI are by John Baptista de Medina, engraved by M. Burghers. Book IV was illustrated by Bernard Lens, engraved by P.P. Bouche. Book XII was illustrated by Henry Aldrich, engraved by Burghers. The illustrations for Books I and II are engraved by Burghers. The illustrator for these is uncertain.

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Book Arts Exhibition – Glimpse

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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A Fowl Alphabet, Alan James Robinson, Allison Milham, Allyn Hart, Becky Williams Thomas, book artists, Book Arts Program, bookbinding, bookmaking, Cheloniidae Press, Claire Taylor, collage, Crane Giamo, Easthampton, Emily Tipps, encaustics, Glenville, Illinois, intaglio printing, J. Willard Marriott Library, Japanese, Julianna Christie, Karen Hanmer, Keiji Shinohara, leather bindings, letterpress printing, Luise Poulton, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Massachusetts, Michelle Macfarlane, National Endowment for the Arts, Pamela Smith, paper decorating, papermaking, photo engraving, photography, printers, rare books, relief printing, Special Collections Gallery, Stacy Phillips, Suzanne Moore, The University of Utah, type, wood engravings

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Rare Books is pleased to support the Book Arts Program with its historic, fine press, and artists’ books collections. Glimpse features these and many other book artists represented in our collections.

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A FOWL ALPHABET
Alan James Robinson
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986

Wood engravings by author. Lettering by Suzanne Moore. Title printed in brown and black; initials and headings printed in brown and gold. Issued in cloth clamshell box. Edition of fifty copies, signed. University of Utah copy is no. 36.


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AAAAAZZZZZ
Karen Hanmer
Glenville, IL: Karen Hammer, 2002
N7433.4 H357 A6 2002

Housed in box. Title on box shows the letter “A” turning into the letter “Z.” Edition of eight copies. University of Utah copy is no. 6, signed by the author.


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THE SPECTRUM A TO Z
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2003
N7433.4 H357 S6 2003

Accordion-style alphabet book. Edition of twenty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 4.


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PATRIOT ALPHABET
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2004
N7433.4 H357 P37 2004

Karen Hanmer layers fragments of text and image, evoking personal memory within cultural context. Intimate but strong, her books are designed to be handled, their sculptural elements giving way to the physicality of reading the old-fashioned way, by turning a page.

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Book of the Week – MILONGAS

09 Monday Nov 2015

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Ana Maria Moncalvo, Argentina, bandits, etchings, folksongs, Gabriel Rummonds, Jorge Luis Boges, letterpress, milongas, music, Samuel Cesar Palui, Schoeller blanco, sepia, tango, University of Utah


MILONGAS
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1983
PQ7797 B635 M55 1983

Milongas, or lyrics, are Argentinian folksongs, often dealing with the exploits of bandits, and sometimes set to the music of the tango. Illustrated with etchings printed in sepia and black by Ana Maria Moncalvo. Designed by Samuel Cesar Palui. Text hand set and letterpress printed in magenta and black. Issued in case. Bound loose in handmade Japanese green paper wrappers and housed in custom-made blue clamshell box. Edition of one hundred copies on Schoeller blanco, numbered 1 through 100. University of Utah copy is no. 19. Gift of Gabriel Rummonds.

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Book of the Week – FIVE POEMS

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Camberwell Press, Camberwell School of Arts, Department of Graphic Arts, Emily Dickinson, Gefn Press, Khadi, Kozo, London, Plantin italic, poems, relief prints, Susan Johanknecht, University of Utah


FIVE POEMS
Susan Johanknecht
London: Gefn Press, 1989
N7433.4.J65 F5 1989

Poems by Emily Dickinson illustrated with seven hand-burnished relief prints on Kozo collaged onto Khadi pages, one hand-colored with gold paint. Poems handset in Plantin italic and printed damp by Susan Johanknecht at the Camberwell Press, Department of Graphic Arts, Camberwell School of Art. Bound in debossed Khadi covers. Edition of fifty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

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