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History of Science

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Detail of gold JCB stamp on black binding.

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Edward Wright
1598
Detail of manuscript diary shows childlike drawings of a house, a person, and a ship.

Diary of Captain Samuel Tillinghast

Samuel Tillinghast
1761-1766
Detail from a printed book shows text in Spanish reading "Los aguacates es uno fruta en las Indias muy preciada, y medicinal."

Secretos de chirurgia

Pedro Arias de Benavides
1567
Detail from a printed text shows questions and follow-up answers about astronomy.

An astronomical and geographical catechism. For the use of children.

Caleb Bingham
1795
Detail from a printed book shows text in Spanish including "Ensayo" at the top of the page.

Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada

Francisco Jose de Caldas
1808
Detail of a printed book shows full-page illustrations of plants. Text in Latin also visible.

Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos

Garcia de Orta
1567
Printed text shows a large, coiled snake with some Latin text visible.

Historia naturæ

Joannes Eusebius Nieremberg
1635
Detail of a printed text shows an astronomical circular diagram and text in English.

An account of the observation of Venus upon the sun...

Benjamin West
1769

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Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas

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a Mohawk man teaches children in a schoolhouse

Controlling Colonial Impressions

May-October 2019
map showing water, volcanoes, the sun, mountaintops, waterways and towns

Bodies of Water/Bodies at Work

Summer - Fall 2018
printed title page of a religious text in Algonquian and English
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A healthy conversion: John Eliot, Robert Boyle, and the Algonquians

January 1, 2019
16th century charts documenting the calculations of solar and lunar calculations
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Eclipses in Print

October 24, 2018
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Fresh Ink: A Not-So-New World by Chris Parsons

September 11, 2018
19th century illustration of chichona bark, quina, cascarilla, Jesuit's Bark plant
In House

Exploring Quina in the JCB Collections

April 12, 2018

See Also

Environmental Studies

15th Century