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The Great War: Here and Over There, 1914-1918: A Digital Exhibition

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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This digital exhibition is based on a physical exhibition in the Special Collections Gallery on display between October 10 and December 07, 2014, marking the beginning of what was referred to by contemporaries as “The Great War.” This coming November 11 marks the anniversary of the end of WWI, one hundred years ago.

The digital exhibition was created by Jon Bingham with help from Scott Beadles. We take this opportunity to say goodbye to Jon, who is moving on to greener pastures under the wild blue yonder, and wish him our very best in his new adventures. Thank you, Jon, for your great work in Rare Books.

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – Down to the Bones

25 Friday Aug 2017

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anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, Arabic Medical Tradition, Beginning of Modern Science, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, format, Galen, Hippocrates, human body, Leonardo da Vinci, medical texts, Observational Methodology, Online Exhibition, organization of information, Renaissance Europe, typography

De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andrea Vesalius (1514-1564) was an exquisite piece of creativity that blended observation; organization of information, format, typography; and illustration into an integrated whole to accurately describe the human body. The intense collaboration between scientist, artist, and printer was unprecedented. Prior to the publication of this book, medical texts were mostly derived from the medieval Arabic medical tradition or from translations of the works of Classical authors, whose texts had been corrupted by translation and re-translation: from Greek into Syriac, Syriac into Arabic, Arabic into Latin. Renaissance Europe embraced the classical works of Hippocrates and the Greco-Roman Galen. Vesalius, however, chose to further his knowledge of human anatomy by studying human cadavers. From these studies, Vesalius formed his position that the validity of any hypothesis rested solely upon facts established by observational methodology. His work marked the beginnings of modern science.

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“Begin your anatomy with a man fully grown; then show him elderly and less muscular; then go on to strip him stage by stage right down to the bones.”

— Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

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2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States, ink, Italian Culture, J. Willard Marriott Library, La Parola Scritta, Online Exhibition, rare books, Special Collections, Suitter Axland, The Honorary Italian Consulate of Salt Lake City, The Italian Club of Salt Lake City, The Italian-American Civic League, Tony Caputo Market & Deli, written word

La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink

In honor of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States, this exhibition includes books from the 15th through the 19th century celebrating Italian contributions to printing, poetry, theater, music, geography, mathematics, botany, astronomy, anatomy, law, typography, dance, travel and more. Many of the books in this exhibition are first editions, including the first printed edition of Euclid’s Geometry (Venice, 1482) and Galileo’s Dialogo (Florence, 1632). The reception for this exhibition included hands-on displays of medieval manuscript facsimiles and 20th century artists’ books. Those books are included in the online exhibition.

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Rare Books Goes to the Natural History Museum of Utah!

18 Friday Sep 2015

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Charles Darwin, evolution, genetics, genome, KSL News Radio, KUER, Luise Poulton, Michael Shapiro, Museum of Natural History of Utah, natural selection, pigeons, rare books, The University of Utah

Rare Books has contributed to a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Our first editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, 1859 and Variations of Plants and Animals Under Domestication, vol. 1, 1868, are on display in

Pigeons
Natural History Museum of Utah
September 19, 2015 through January 2, 2016

Find out how Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolutionary thought, relied on pigeons to formulate and communicate his theory of natural selection. Then meet a University of Utah biologist following in Darwin’s footsteps. Glimpse inside Dr. Michael Shapiro’s lab to see how he investigates the pigeon genome to reveal how evolution works at the genetic level.

For more information visit the Natural History Museum of Utah’s website.

For more information on Darwin and the related Rare Books collections visit our online exhibition, The Evolution of Darwin.

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Managing Curator, Luise Poulton, talks about the books and collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Utah on KSL News Radio.

The exhibition was featured on KUER local news.

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – Nahuatl Spoken Here

15 Friday May 2015

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Anthropology, Aztec, Charles Elliott Dibble (1909-2002), codex, facsimiles, J. Willard Marriott Library, Latin American Studies Program at the University of Utah, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican, Nahuatl, Rare Books Division, The University of Utah, United States

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – Fold, Flap, Peek, Pull, Pop

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

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Rare Books Online Exhibition

14 Friday Feb 2014

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Alison Conner, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, pamphlets, Thomas Paine, William Pitt

New Online Exhibition – Fighting Words: American Revolutionary War Pamphlets

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – Brave Cowboy: An Edward Abbey Retrospective

14 Thursday Nov 2013

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Brave Cowboy: An Edward Abbey Retrospective

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Rare Books Online Exhibition – Are We There Yet?

30 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Are We There Yet? Westward Exploration and Travel in North America

Are We There Yet?, 2012

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University of Utah rare books featured in University of Washington graduate student capstone project

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Alison Conner, Rare Books Curator and MLIS candidate at the University of Washington, used rare books as the focus of her capstone project. Based on a physical exhibition Alison curated in 2012 as another school project, Alison designed and produced a collaborative, multimedia, online exhibition. Visit fightingwordsonline.org for a virtual tour of the American Revolution, told through the words of those who fought it. Videos, scanned images, and text work together to enhance the experience. Alison worked with faculty and students from the University of Utah’s Theater department, Film and Media Arts department; and staff from the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Scholarship and Information Services and Special Collections’ Rare Books Division.

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