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We have an exciting new acquisition to feature this Friday! Last week, a generous donor gave the Libraries a copy of Pierre Borel's De Vero Telescopii Inventore (1655). This work is a history of the invention of the telescope from antiquity to the time of writing. At the time, both Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen claimed to be the inventor of the telescope, and Pierre Borel found Janssen's claims to be more convincing. Present-day historians have tended to recognize Lippershey instead, but they do give Janssen credit for inventing the compound microscope.

Borel also printed a letter from Christiaan Huygens' in which he details his observations of Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. This letter also contained Huygens' identification of the rings of Saturn in an anagram - a sly way to sneak the idea into print without giving it away before Huygens' own publication of Systema Saturnium in 1659.

This volume is bound with several others: Johann Franz Griendel's Micrographia nova (1687); Anton van Leeuwenhoek's Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheide dieren, vogelen en visschen (1696); and Govard Bidloo's Brief aan Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1698).

Many thanks to donor Rick Hardin for this newest addition to the collection.

De vero telescopii inventore : cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia : ubi de eorum confectione, ac usu, seu de effectibus agitur, novaque quaedam circa ea proponuntur : accessit etiam centuria observationum microcospicarum / Authore Petro Borello, regis Christianissimi consiliario, & medico ordinario. VAULT QB88 .B72 1655

#history of science #histsci #astronomy #history of astronomy #newacq #bookhistory #rare books #mizzou #special collections #university of missouri #libraries #kelli h

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This is a devotional work for German miners that talks about spiritual life entirely in mining metaphors. That sounds pretty awful but the double engraved t.p. full of mining images is fantastic. #newacq pic.twitter.com/9PObRlZIcz

— John Overholt (@john_overholt) January 24, 2018

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Introducing the Samir Husni Magazine Collection

We try to use our social media to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening in Special Collections. But we have to admit, we’ve been keeping a secret. There’s a little project we haven’t told you all about.

Okay, maybe it’s a big project.

In October, three semi-trucks rolled up to Ellis Library laden with the archive of Dr. Samir Husni, a.k.a. Mr. Magazine™, a.k.a. “the planet’s leading expert on new magazines.” Inside was an incredible gift to the Libraries, the University of Missouri, and future researchers: the Samir Husni Magazine Collection.

Dr. Husni’s career has focused on magazine launches, and he assembled this collection over the course of more than forty years of studying the magazine industry. The collection contains around 40,000 first editions of magazines published from 1985 to date. A high percentage of new magazines don’t survive to produce a second issue, so that’s a lot of content that can’t be found anywhere else.

In addition to those 40,000 first editions, Dr. Husni collected widely across a large span of the 20th century. The result is a collection that represents as complete a picture of the American magazine industry as possible, including longer or near-complete runs of periodical titles from the early twentieth century, merchandise and marketing kits created by magazine publishers, and Dr. Husni's professional papers.

The University of Missouri is a natural home for this collection. Dr. Husni received his Ph.D. here from the Missouri School of Journalism, the first professional journalism school in the United States, and a top-ranked program to this day. We’re thrilled to be able to make the Husni Collection available to this community of researchers and journalists. Last week we met to celebrate Dr. Husni and the dedicated crew of librarians and students who have been working on this amazing collection over the last six months.

Get ready for lots of magazine photos coming your way in the coming months. We’ve only processed a fraction of the collection so far, and with tens of thousands of magazines to organize, we’re going to be busy for a long time!

#special collections #university of missouri #archives #husni collection #magazines #history of journalism #newacq #mizzou #journalism #journalism history #husni #samir husni #kelli h

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Megamorphoses and micromorphoses: or, Ovid at both ends of the scale.⠀ The #TinyTuesday book is a #newacq from the @wanderingbookartists, and we think it pairs well with our 1732 Metamorphoses with French commentaries.⠀ PA6523 .M2 1732⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #tinybooks #bookart #ovid #latin #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Happy #TattooableTuesday! John just got back from #Matrices2018 @friendsofdardhunter and brought this amazing 18th-century stenciled antiphonal with him. It isn't cataloged yet, but you can see it in our reading room! #newacq⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #stencils #manuscript #tattoos #ink #paper #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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It's #moonday! Look what I found in our #newacquisition of newspapers and magazines! (There were other neat things but SPACE!!) This collection is still being processed and will be available as a teaching collection soon. . . . . #newacq #moon #lunar #space #astronauts #nasa #apollo #magazine #journalism #newspaper #vintage #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

#bookhistory #special collections #rare books #mizzou #university of missouri #libraries #moon #lunar #space #astronauts #nasa #apollo #history

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We have a #newacq for #Feathursday! This edition of Martinet's Histoire des oiseaux just arrived in Special Collections, and we are awed by the use of gold and pigments in the hand-colored illustrations. Marvel at this glorious peacock, and stay tuned for more images from this new book in upcoming Thursday posts.⠀ ⠀ QL674 .M38 1787⠀ ⠀ 

#peacock #bookhistory #art #sciart #ornithology #bookillustration #scientificillustration #histsci #special collections #rare books #mizzou #libraries #books #history #instagram #bird #18thcentury #specialcollections #rarebooks #universityofmissouri