Integrative Themes in the Sciences
Digital collections in support of integrative scholarship in the sciences, namely Climate Change, Collections as Data, Health and History. Here you will find digitized materials from the Morse Whaling Collection, the Lownes History of Science Collection, Ladd Observatory Records, the David E. Pingree Collection on the History of Mathematics, and objects from the Rhode Island Medical Society Collection and Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Robert Holbrook (“Dr. Bob”) Smith collection.
Subcollections (5)
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Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
...The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications.
The items have …
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Archives of the Ladd Observatory
Materials from the archives of Ladd Observatory, including eclipse expedition scrapbooks, slides, and associated materials from Charles H. Smiley.... -
Anthropodermic Books
...The John Hay Library has four anthropodermic books. Testing in April 2015, confirmed the books are bound in human skin (or a closely related primate):
Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Venice, 1568)
Dance of Death (London, 1816)
Dance of Death …
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Carleton D. Morse Whaling Collection
The Carleton D. Morse whaling collection contains correspondence, logbooks and accounts, seaman's journals, merchant's and owner's accounts, reports and legal documents, literary works, photographs and engravings, as well as newspaper clippings, research notes, ephemera and other printed materials pertaining to …... -
Baldner's drawings of Vogel-, Fisch- und Thierbuch
This collection contains digital images of one of 6 documented manuscript copies of the work by Leonhardt Baldner generally known as "Vogel-, Fisch- und Thierbuch", a collection of watercolor drawings (totaling 115 in the present copy) made from specimens of …...
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