In 1713, the scientific instrument-maker Jakob Leupold published designs for three machines were the first attempt to design machinery with internal moving parts that replaced human agency in creating original images.
The series begins with poet Muriel Rukeyser and will weave through various poets of the twentieth century, using Beinecke’s collections as a means of connecting disparate figures to one another.
Andrew S. Brown, “Accounting for the Law in the Almanac of John Chesshyre,” in The Census , Yale Program in the History of the Book . FROM “Accounting for the...
Honglan Huang, “ Pen’s Labyrinth: Knots, Flourishes and Figurative Drawings in Mary Serjant’s Copy Book ,” in The Census, Yale Program in the History of the...
Allan Johnson, Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature:Castration, Narration, and a Sense of the Beginning, 1919-1945 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 From the...
Rachel Carson on PBS’s American Experience From Inside American Experience : Rachel Carson, New Two-Hour Film on the Author and Scientist, To Premiere...
Most people know Margaret Wise Brown as the writer of Runaway Bunny (Harper, 1942) and Good Night Moon (Harper, 1947). Many may not know that she wrote almost...
During a recent visit from a class studying Reformation Europe, I brought out one of my favorite items in the Beinecke’s collection: a sixteenth-century prayer...
