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‘Alimberto Mauri’. Consideazioni…spora Alcuni Luoghi de Discorso di Lodovico delle Colombe. In Ferenze: Apresso Gio. Antonio Caneo, 1606. (details | pdf)
Galileo, a major progenitor of the Scientific Revolution was also a martyr of the new science. His career can be viewed as a series of controversies, beginning with his earliest published work on the ‘new star’ of 1604, written when he was already 40. He then moved on to the proportional compass, the telescopic discoveries of 1610, the ‘bodies in water’ and sunspot controversies of 1612 to 1615, the controversy of the comets (1619-20), and the most famous of all, the Dialogo of 1632 which led to his trial and house arrest until his death in 1642. The greatest of his scientific works, the Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche had necessarily to be published in Leiden in 1638. Each of his works provoked attacks by Aristotelian philosophers and theological opponents and, occasionaly, he was defended in print by his scientific colleagues. With the exceptions of the 1632 Dialogo and the Discorsi all these works were small pamphlets published in limited numbers and all are rare, both in institutions and on the market.
When Stilman Drake came to the University of Toronto in 1967 he brought with him one of the best Galileo collections in private hands. Its deposit in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department and its gradual acquisition by the Library provided a very large base upon which to build, a process much aided and abetted by Drake himself. The Galileo Collection is now amongst the best anywhere, excepting the manuscripts which remain in Florence where most were created.
One of Stilman Drake’s great acquisitions, made after he came to Toronto, was a Sammelband of some fifteen short works on comets, published between 1578 and 1605. All of them are rare and four are not recorded in any standard bibliographic source. The volume is in an early binding with the gilt coat of arms of Léonor d’Estampes de Valençay (1589-1651). It later belonged to the Galetti family of Florence and Baron Horace de Landau, part of whose library was sold in 1948.
Towards the end of the volume occurs the Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti… de la Stella Nuova, rumoured to have been written by Galileo almost from the time of its publication, but not definitely assigned to him until the late 19th century. On 9 October 1604 a new star was first observed in the heavens near the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in Sagittarius. Because of it brightness and the many astrological inferences that were drawn from such sightings, the interest of several Aristotelian philosophers was engaged to attempt to explain what the nova was and how it came to be where it was. Galileo’s interest was aroused as well and, for the first time, he became seriously interested in astronomical matters and gave three public lectures in which he apparently discussed parallax and the measurement of distance and attempted to refute the Aristotelian theory that novae were sublunar phenomena. He was challenged by Cesare Cremonini, a personal friend but scientific opponent, and Antonio Lorenzini, one of the philosophers. The Dialogo was his direct reply, a discussion between Matteo and Natale, two peasant farmers who speak in a rustic dialect. In Stilman Drake’s rendition:
Natale: why, didn’t you see that star thress months ago, shining at night. Like a skunk’s eye?...That’s what’s really causing these freaks and this drought, According to what a Doctor at Padua said.
Matteo: How do you know it was never seen before?
Natale: The other day I heard a man that was reading this little book, and he said it only began to show last October eighth. The book was by a Padua prof., and said a lot of things.
Matteo: A pox on those goat-turds at Padua. Maybe just because that fellow never saw it before, he wants everybody to believe him that it wasn’t there. Me, I’ve never been to Germany, but its there just the same.
Philosophical astronomy is scornfully dismissed and the two farmers keep coming back to measurement as the only real method of determining the exact nature of heavenly bodies.
Lodovico delle Colombe, a philosopher, amateur astronomer, and poet from Florence, entered the controversy early in 1606, after the new star had disappeared from view. His Discorso…nel quale si Demonstra che la Nouva Stella Apparita… put forward the opinion that the star was not ‘new’ at all and he further promised to reconcile this theory with all true astronomy, philosophy, and theology. The answer to this attack was published in Florence in June 1606 by ‘Alimberto Mauri’, in his Considerazioni, also a part of this volume. In it Mauri suggested, very sarcastically, that Colombe should stick with philosophical astronomy and leave mathematics to those qualified to make accurate observations. Colombe attempted to discover the identity of Mauri without success and came to believe that Galileo had written the pamphlet himself. More recently an exhaustive search of sources has failed to turn up any trace of Alimberto Mauri and Stilman Drake believed that this name was in fact a pseudonym for Galileo.
The works concerning the new star controversy illustrate very well the great strength of the Galileo collection. The primary works by Galileo are present, of course, but it also has the contemporary reactions to them, many of them more elusive than the works themselves.
Acquired from Stilman Drake in 1985.
The above is taken from Bibliophilia Scholastica Floreat: Fifty Years of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto.
Exhibition and Catalogue by Richard Landon.
Brewster Kahle also makes an announcement of Internet Archive's Three Millionth book, here.
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Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent Heiric, of Auxerre, ca. 841-ca. 876 (details | pdf)
The Internet Archive and the University of Toronto is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public for free on Archive.org since 2005.
“This 1,000 year old book which has only been seen by a select few people, can, with the technology of today, be shared with millions tomorrow," said Robert Miller, Director of Books of the Internet Archive "Selecting this title for the 2 millionth text is a fitting tribute to the team of scanners in Toronto Canada, who have been carefully working for the past 5 years.”
The Homiliary manuscript was copied on parchment by at least three different scribes at the important medieval Abbey of St. Martin in Tours less than 100 years after having been composed by Heiric of Auxerre and is the oldest known copy of Heiric’s original text.
“Handwritten in Latin by a number of scribes in a script inspired by the court of Charlemagne, this rare and beautiful treasure from the first millennium of Christianity, is one of the gems in the renowned collection of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. The Institute is dedicated to transmitting the inheritance of the Middle Ages to new generations; to deepening our understanding of the life and ideals of Western culture in the time of its first youth," said Jonathan Bengtson, Director of Library and Archives, University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto & Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
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The Terrors of the Year Two Thousand By Etienne Gilson (details | pdf)
Internet Archive Canada is pleased to announce another landmark. This is IAC's 250,00th title scanned! Thank you to all the staff in Toronto, for all of your hard work and attention to detail. We would also like to again thank all of our partner libraries and organizations for being so enthusiastic in helping us increase the number of e-books accessible for the world to enjoy. This is truly a global endeavor.
Our 250,000th book is a special title that has been graciously made available by Jonathan Bengtson, Director of Library and Archives for the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto and the The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
The Terrors of the Year Two Thousand was first published by St. Michael's College, Toronto, in 1949. The edition available here was re-issued in 1984 to mark the hundredth anniversary
of the birth of its author, Etienne Gilson.
The following excerpt is from the Preface to the re-issued edition:
St. Michael's honours the memory of its most distinguished professor of philosophy who lectured in its classrooms almost annually from 1929 to 1972, and who was the founder and life-time director of its Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Gilson died in Auxerre in Burgundy, France, on 19 September 1978. PIMS mounts a yearly Etienne Gilson Lecture Series. to carry on his exemplary tradition of teaching.
Professor Gilson, an exemplary Catholic, possibly the most renowned medievalist of his day, influenced hundreds of graduate students, many of whom teach philosophy today in the universities and colleges of the United States and Canada. His thrilling lectures were filled to overflowing. A list of his publications contains over twelve hundred articles and full-length books. Gilson’s bibliography of publication contains over 1200 items.
Gilson’s work enjoyed renewed interest on the cusp of the millennium. Portions of this work were reprinted in-- Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture,Volume 3:1,Winter 2000. The editor remarked that “Etienne Gilson, immersed in the religious, intellectual, and political turmoil of this century in 1948, understood brilliantly what was at stake during the century now ending and offered a prescient account of what was in store in the years approaching the start of the third Christian millennium.” And goes on to conclude that “Terrors of the Year Two Thousand, brings into focus the challenges that Christianity must face if it is to overcome the nihilism represented on many fronts in our time, and ends with a reminder of the Christian source of salvation.”
Additional Titles available on the Internet Archive by
Etienne Gilson
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Songs of a Sourdough By Robert W. Service (details | pdf)
Internet Archive Canada has reached a milestone, in scanning its 200,000th book! We want to thank everyone involved, who have made Internet Archive Canada a success here in Toronto.
First and foremost, the employees of Internet Archive Canada. Without your dedication and tireless efforts, we could not have been able to contribute, all these wonderful texts to the populace at large. Thank you all. From the Archive staff in San Francisco, to the University of Toronto and OCUL members – not to mention all the wonderful Canadian Institutions who have donated material. Your commitment to this great endeavour has helped make “Universal Access to Knowledge” all the more tangible. Our 200,000th book has been generously donated for scanning by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
The well-known collection of verse, Songs of a Sourdough was the first publication of author Robert W. Service and became instantly popular when it was published in 1907. There were 10 Canadian printings in that first year of publication, totaling 12,750 copies.
The collection includes “ The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “ The Cremation of Sam McGee”. Which have become classics taught in literature classes, recited widely, referenced in films and music such as the 1949 song "Dangerous Dan McGrew" by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
Service initially sent the manuscript of Songs of a Sourdough to the Methodist Book and Publishing House in Toronto to be published at his own expense. The book subsequently came to the attention of editors in the office, and a commercial edition was ordered. The first, “Author's Edition” was 500 copies, but with so many orders even before the date of publication, a second edition of 750 was immediately printed.
This first edition copy, contributed by The Thomas Fisher Library is an excellent example of Canadiana, detailing the landscapes of the Northwest and memorable characters involved with the Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory.
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A dictionary of the English language By Samuel Johnson(details | pdf)
A dictionary of the English language in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar (1785)
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A general history of all voyages and travels throughout the old and new world (1708)
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The history of the devil, as well ancient as modern (1727)
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Pastorals, epistles, odes, and other original poems, with translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and
Sappho (1748)
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Esprit, maximes et principes de m. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, de Geneve (1764)
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Twenty stories from Grimm (1896)
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Tremendous Toronto (1914)
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Se-ke and the beaver (1920)
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Grimsby Park, historical and descriptive; with biographical sketches of the late president Noah Phelps and others (1900)
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Canada's scenic grandeur : four thousand miles across Canada ... (1901)
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Eaton's Fall and Winter Catalogue 1899-1900 (1899)
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English for new-Canadians (1919)
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The compleat office of the Holy Week : with notes and explications (1687)
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The garden of the soul (1775)
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The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church (1810)
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The Christian year : thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year (1827)
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A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles (1721)
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Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health (1765)
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Gilbertus Anglicus, medicine, of the thirteenth century (1918)
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Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not (1860)
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Old-time makers of medicine : the story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to
medicine during the Middle Ages (1911)
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Stretcher bearers... at the double! (1937)
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