Skip to main content
Home

Secondary navigation

  • Online Catalogue
  • Visit
  • News
  • Donate
  • About

Main navigation

  • The Collection
    • Discover the Collection
      • Places
      • Languages
      • Themes
      • Periods
      • Genres
    • Online Catalogue
    • Digital Collections
  • Events & Exhibitions
    • Now On View
      • Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas
    • Exhibitions History
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • Research
    • Fellowships
      • Opportunities
      • Fellows Directory
      • Life in Residence
      • Remote Fellowship Program
    • Using the Library
      • Instructional Support Guide
      • Request Materials in the Reading Room
      • Resources and Publications
      • Image Permissions & Requests

Search Menu

  • Online Catalogue (BruKnow)
  • Internet Archive
  • LUNA

Theme

Environmental Studies

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email

Related

Frontispiece from Museum Wormianum. Seu, Historia rerum rariorum, 1655.

Natural History Collecting in Late Colonial New Spain: Highlights from the JCB Collection

Wednesday, September 29 at 1:00pm
Image of an artificial flower clock, with two hands emerging from clouds on either side holding a numbered circle, and a thorn stemming from the flower's circle pointing at the time.
Fellow's Talk

Earthquakes and Timekeeping Practices in New England, 1600-1800

Wednesday, August 25 at 1:00pm
A map showing the strait of Magellan
Fellow's Talk

The Strait of Magellan and the Construction of a Global habitability. Geopolitics and cosmography in the 16th century [in Spanish]

Wednesday, June 30 at 1:00pm
agnese closeup

Air America

April - June, 2016
men work inside a mine

Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas

Spring - Summer 2015
map showing water, volcanoes, the sun, mountaintops, waterways and towns

Bodies of Water/Bodies at Work

Summer - Fall 2018

See Also

America

19th Century

Back To Top

Location

The John Carter Brown Library
94 George Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02906

Directions & Contact

Hours

Hours & Closings

Newsletter

Sign up to receive the latest news, events, and highlights from the JCB.

Sign Up

 

John Carter Brown Library Logo

  • Accessibility
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
©2019 The John Carter Brown Library. A Message»Agency Site