Science and the Artist's Book
An exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Washington Project for the ArtsChecklist of Works in the Exhibition
Heralds of Science
Artist's Books
Heralds of Science
Artist's Books
Georgius Agricola
De Re Metallica [On metallurgy]
Basel, Switzerland, 1621; first published 1556
Vannoccio Biringuccio
De la pirotechnia [On working with fire]
Venice, 1540
Nathaniel Bowditch
The New American Practical Navigator
Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1802
Tycho Brahe
Epistolarum Astronomicarum Libri [Collected letters on
astronomy]
Uraniborg, Denmark, 1596
Ernst F.F. Chladni
Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges [Discoveries
concerning the theory of sound]
Leipzig, 1787
Marie Sklodowska Curie
"Recherches sur les substances radioactives" [Investigations into
radioactive substances] in Annales de chimie et de physique
Paris, 1903
Charles Robert Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
London, 1859
René Descartes
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et
chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on
a method for guiding reason, and discovering truth in the
sciences]
Leiden, The Netherlands, 1637
Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences,
des arts et des métiers [Encyclopedia, or descriptive
dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts]
Paris, 1751-1780
Euclid
Preclarissimus Liber Elementorum Euclidis...in Artem
Geometrie [The most excellent book of the Elements of Euclid ... on
the art of geometry]
Venice, 1482
Domenico Fontana
Della trasportatione dell' obelisco vaticano [On the
transportation of the Vatican obelisk]
Rome, 1590
Luigi Galvani
De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius
[Commentary on the effects of electricity on muscular motion]
Bologna, Italy, 1791
William Gilbert
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete
Tellure; Physiologia Nova [Concerning the magnet, magnetic
bodies, and the Earth as a great magnet; a new science]
London, 1600
Johannes Hevelius
Machinae Coelestis Pars Prior [The celestial machine: The
first part]
Danzig, Poland, 1673-1679
Robert Hooke
Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by
Magnifying Glasses
London, 1665
Christiaan Huygens
Systema Saturnium [The Saturnian system]
The Hague, Netherlands, 1659
Johannes de Ketham
Fasciculus Medicine [Medical treatise]
Venice, 1495
Marcello Malpighi
Anatome Plantarum [On the anatomy of plants]
London, 1675
Pliny the Elder
Historia naturalis [Natural history]
Venice, 1469
Agostino Ramelli
Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino
Ramelli [The various and ingenious machines of Captain Agostino
Ramelli]
Paris, 1588
Roberte Recorde
The Castle of Knowledge, Containing the Explication of the
Sphere Bothe Celestiall and Materiall
London, 1556
Francesco Redi
Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti
[Experiments on the generation of insects]
Florence, 1688; first published 1668
Christian Konrad Sprengel
Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung
der Blumen [The secret of nature in the form and fertilization
of flowers discovered]
Berlin, 1793
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
De Architectura Libri Dece [Ten books on architecture]
Como, Italy, 1521
Alessandro Volta
"On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting
Substances of Different Kinds"
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 90
London, 1800
James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick
"Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose
Nucleic Acid" in Nature
London, 1953
Wilbur Wright
"Some Aeronautical Experiments" in Western Society of
Engineers
Chicago, 1901
Frances Butler
The Taxonomy of Desire
Berkeley, California, 1994
[wood, porcelain, paint, paper]
John Carrera and Sam Walker
Putrefatti [Decayed]
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995
[embossing, intaglio and letterpress printing on laid paper]
Julie Chen
Double Helix: An Essential Component of All Living Matter
Berkeley, California, 1994
[paper, colored pencil, wood, found map]
M.J. Connors
On the Commotion Contact Perpetuates: A Response to Allessandro
Volta
Brooklyn, New York, 1995
[non-silver prints, acrylic, museum board, wood]
Joyce Cutler-Shaw
The Anatomy Lesson: A Collation
San Diego, California, 1995
[handmade paper, paint, board]
Steven C. Daiber
Lillian (formerly Untitled)
Williamsburg, Massachusetts, 1994
[woodcuts, watercolor, photocopies]
Laura Davidson
Ten Books of Vitruvius
Boston, Massachusetts, 1994
[museum board, lantern slide, book cloth, ink, transfer prints]
Timothy C. Ely
Saturnia
Portland, Oregon, 1994
[wood, handmade paper, aluminum]
George Gessert
Natural Selection
Eugene, Oregon, 1994
[computer-printed handwriting, paper, inks, Cibachrome prints]
Susan kae Grant
Radioactive Substances
Dallas, Texas, 1995
[lead, solvent transfers]
Pattie Belle Hastings
Practical Navigator
Atlanta, Georgia: Ice House Press, 1994
[monoprint, computer printing, rubber stamping, gouache, metallic
pen]
Geoffrey Hendricks
QUADRANT / A Meditation on Tycho Brahe
New York, New York, 1994
[wood, brass, watercolor, ceramic, glass, stainless steel, stone,
cloth, museum board]
Sjoerd Hofstra
Elements of Geometry by Euclid
Brooklyn, New York, 1994
[laser printing, paper]
David Horton
Celestial Wondering
New Milford, New York: Flying Pyramid Press, 1994
[wood, metal, book board, photographs, electronic and fiber-optic
elements]
Edward Hutchins
Moving the Obstinate
Cairo, New York, 1995
[museum board, book cloth, paper, wire, cord]
Daniel E. Kelm
Templum Elementorum [Sanctuary of the elements]
Easthampton, Massachusetts: The Wide Awake Garage, 1995
[etched glass, patinated metal, paper, laser printing]
Scott L. McCarney
Diderot / Doubleday / Deconstruction
Rochester, New York, 1994
[altered book, laser prints]
Judith Mohns and François Deschamps
Cartesian Dreams
New Paltz, New York, 1994
[photo-silkscreen, paper]
Katherine Ng
A Hypothetical Analysis of the Twinkle in Stars (as told by a child to a
teacher)
Los Angeles, California, 1994
[paste paper and letterpress]
JoAnna Poehlmann
The Frog: Electric, Scientific, Literary, Legendary, Historical,
Musical, Culinary, and Vanishing....
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994
[watercolor, pen and ink, rubber stamping, laser copies, ribbon,
freeze-dried leopard frog]
Sue Ann Robinson
Uru Pacha: World Beneath the Other
Long Beach, California, 1995
[mixed media, paper, semi-precious stones]
Laurie Sieverts Snyder
Sonorous Figures
Baltimore, Maryland, 1994
[silver gelatin photographs, cloth, bone closure]
Larry B. Thomas
No Tears for Ramelli
Atlanta, Georgia, 1994
[photocopies, rubber stamping, paper]
M.L. Van Nice
Plinitude
Somerville, Massachusetts, 1994
[seeds, bones, insect wings, feathers, wood, leather, paper, acrylic]
Karen M. Wirth
Viewpoints
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995
[silkscreen, paper, Fresnel lenses]
John Wood
Bird Wing and Plain Planes
Baltimore, Maryland, 1994
[color laser copies, laser prints, paste paper, board, thread]
Philip Zimmermann
Elektromagnetism
Barrytown, New York: Space Heater Editions, 1995
[inkjet printing, paper, museum board]
