User:MaryBowser

MaryBowser, Generally

I put digitized books online.

At the moment, I have no bigger ambitions in Wikipedia than to add useful links to digitized rare books at the Linda Hall Library.

I haven't been keeping the following lists up-to-date, but I will be trying to get them into better shape. I added links to scanned books several years ago for a limited project. I'm picking up where I have left off, adding links to fully digitized books, now a collection of nearly 500 600 rare book volumes. Another person in my department is going to begin adding links to volumes as he finishes scanning and uploading them.

The Linda Hall Library's digital collections also includes what I think is an amazing trove of carefully scanned, very high-resolution images that I think would be helpful to scholars, or just to people who are addicted to picking up odd bits of information or in need of a vacation from whatever spreadsheet they're tethered to.

Current scanning project

"Geology, Paleontology, and Theories of the Earth", books and essays, dating from 1546 into the 19th century, relating to the study of fossils, springs, rocks, and, ultimately, the age of the Earth.

Books that I have not linked to anything within Wikipedia

John R. Mollison (1877) The new practical window gardener. From its gorgeous cover, its colorful frontispiece, to its many illustrations on indoor gardening and terrarium-keeping within, I can imagine too many people who would be delighted to know that this book is within reach.

A.B. Nichols Panama Canal Collection

link from Panama Canal and from Ferdinand de Lesseps

Star Atlas creators in my to-do list

Bartak, Johann Baptist.
Brooke, Henry.
Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838.
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel, 1677-1750.
Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1621?
Goldbach, Christian Friedrich, 1763-1811.
Green, Jacob, 1790-1841.
Jamieson, Alexander
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871.
Meissner, A. G. (August Gottlieb), 1753-1807.
Middleton, J. (James).
Möllinger, Otto, 1814-1886.
Munckerus, Thomas, d. 1652.
Preyssinger, Ludwig.
Reissig, Kornelii Khristianovich, 1781-1860.
Riedig, C. G. (d. 1853).
Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
Semler, Christoph, 1669-1740. (DE:OK)
Strauch, Aegidius, 1632-1682.

postscript: Star cartography

Works from History of Science and Technology

-added link to lhl digital clxn from Leon Battista Alberti
- ditto: Tycho Brahe
- ditto: Leonard Digges (scientist)
- ditto: Galileo Galilei (first ed. of Sidereus Nuncius as well as pirated ed.)
- Griendel, Johann Franz, fl. 1687. Micrographia Nova is not in the English nor the German W'pedia. Am wondering whether there is an appropriate entry from which to link to this.
- added link to lhl digital clxn from William Herschel
- Robert Hooke already includes a link to Micrographia, I removed negative comments about site's lack of OCR.
-added link to Newton's copy of Marsham at Isaac Newton; however, did not turn up a page for John Marsham(, Sir, 1602-1685).
-updated link to Rhäticus on Narratio Prima page; added link on Georg Joachim Rheticus page.

Works from the Natural History collection

Mark Catesby: added links to both 1754 vol.s of 'Natural History...'
Martin Lister link added.
Maria Sibylla Merian link added.
Palisot de Beauvois link added
Robert Ridgway link added; also added to Color and ornithology
Hugh Edwin Strickland link added; also added to Dodo and Extinction

Parachute collection

link added to Parachute

Color and Optics

This collection was established in 2013, the year the Library's exhibition "Wheels, Pyramids, and Spinning Tops: The Scientific Approach to Color" opened. The collection originally included full text facsimiles of the approximately 60 books in the exhibit cases, but has continued to grow and now includes more than 100 volumes. The full collection is here. Here is one of the books that inspired the curator: Chevreul's Exposé d'un moyen de définir et de nommer les couleurs