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Women's History Month Reception, March 22

Please join Special Collections and the Women's Center for cake and punch to celebrate Women's History Month and the exhibition Women at Haverford, 25+ Years. Wednesday, March 22, from 3:00-5:00 pm in Lobby of Magill Library.

Posted by John Anderies at February 28, 2006 06:11 PM

Staff at conference for cultural heritage institutions

Special Collections staff Diana Franzusoff Peterson and John Anderies are attending WebWise 2006, a conference put on by the Institute for Museum and Library Studies, OCLC, and The Getty Trust in Los Angeles.  The conference centers on innovative approaches to resource discovery and opening our collections to users via the online environment.

Posted by John Anderies at February 16, 2006 04:56 PM

Rare Book of the Month - February 2006

Dora Wong, new Science Librarian at Haverford, and Newton's Principia

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], Londini : Jussu Societatis Regiae ac Typis Josephi Streater, Anno 1687

The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Where other scientists published observations, Newton mathematically explained the underlying universal laws that created those phenomena. He demonstrated that the gravitational laws that accounted for the motion of objects on earth were the same as those that explained the motion of heavenly bodies. The Principia began an age of rationalism and scientific determinism, breaking from an understanding based on spiritual order.

The Principia is part of the Rare Book Collection at Haverford College and is available for review in the reading room of Special Collections.

Posted by Ann Upton at February 3, 2006 09:00 AM | Comments (0)