Astronomy

Where Old Meets New: Commemorating the Savilian Professorships in an Online Exhibition

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:50:05 +0000

Where Old Meets New: Commemorating the Savilian Professorships in an Online Exhibition

William Shire

Issue number

(2024): 22

Notes category

Exhibitions

Geometry

Astronomy

Savilian professorships

Sir Henry Savile

In recent years, the library has expanded its digital presence greatly, making full use of the latest technology. An extensive programme has been launched to digitise the library’s manuscripts, rare books, and most important archives items. The library’s social media presence has also grown from strength to strength and a video series, Curators’ Choice, has been developed to bring ��Ƶ’s unique collections to as large an audience as possible. The creation of a set of online exhibitions is the obvious next step to complement these initiatives, as such exhibitions have the potential to bring together the library’s digitised images and video content on one site and dedicated to one particular theme—a goal achieved during the creation of the library’s first online exhibition, English Literature Through the Ages. This Note highlights the second online exhibition produced this year by the library, Geometry and Astronomy, which focuses on the Savilian professorships in both subjects, based at ��Ƶ.

Geometry and Astronomy Exhibition (six webpage feature boxes)

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN9 (2024) Shire on Where Old Meets New.pdf1.14 MB

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ��Ƶ Library in 2019

Christopher — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:13:05 +0000

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ��Ƶ Library in 2019

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2019): 12

Notes category

Savilian professorships

2019 was a year of notable anniversaries, marking as it does both the 400th anniversary of the Savilian Professorships in geometry and astronomy, and the 40th anniversary of women students at ��Ƶ. In 1619, the scholar and diplomat Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622) founded two university chairs bearing his name, which have long been associated with ��Ƶ. And if we fast-forward from 1619 in Oxford some 360 years to 1979, women students are for the first time ever matriculating at ��Ƶ.

Paula Wilson, Portrait of Ruth Mazo Karras and Caroline Kay (2019)
Oil on board, 100 x 90 cms, ��Ƶ, Oxford

��Ƶ, Oxford

12NCN10 (2019) Skelton-Foord on Anniversaries.pdf2.11 MB

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ��Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

Christopher — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:03:24 +0000

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ��Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

William Poole and Daniel Fried

Issue number

(2019): 12

Notes category

Stephen Standish

Peter Apian

Savilian professorships

Astronomy

Library Antiquarian

One of ��Ƶ’s most visually striking printed books, that came into the hands of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy almost four centuries after its publication . . .

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, BT1.70.2, title page

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

12NCN5 (2019) Poole and Fried on Stephen Standish.pdf1.59 MB

Astronomy

Where Old Meets New: Commemorating the Savilian Professorships in an Online Exhibition

Where Old Meets New: Commemorating the Savilian Professorships in an Online Exhibition

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ������Ƶ Library in 2019

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ������Ƶ Library in 2019

������Ƶ, Oxford

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ������Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ������Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

One of ������Ƶ’s most visually striking printed books, that came into the hands of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy almost four centuries after its publication . . .

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ��Ƶ Library in 2019

Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ��Ƶ Library in 2019

��Ƶ, Oxford

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ��Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

Stephen Standish and the Provenance of the ��Ƶ Astronomicum Cæsareum (1540)

One of ��Ƶ’s most visually striking printed books, that came into the hands of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy almost four centuries after its publication . . .

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford