Collection Highlights - Solar Eclipse (on August 21, 2017)

Our latest Collection Highlights are on display in the glass case in the library lobby. In honor of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, we are featuring highlights from our collection about astronomy, outer space, and the law.

Eclipse related materials on display from the library listed below

The items on display are:

  • Behind the scenes at Galileo's trial: including the first English translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus by Richard J. Blackwell - Stacks QB 36 G2 B573 2006
  • The Galileo affair: a documentary history edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro - Stacks QB 36 G2 G35 1991
  • The Roman Inquisition: a papal bureaucracy and its laws in the age of Galileo by Thomas F. Mayer - Stacks BX 1723 M38 2013
  • Proceedings of the fourteenth colloquium on the law of outer space edited by Mortimer D. Schwartz - Stacks KZD 1141 C65
  • Kepler's Dream: with the full text and notes of Somnium, sive Astronomia lunaris Joannis Kepleri by John Lear - Stacks QB 41 K422 L43
  • Right stuff, wrong sex: America's first women in space program by Margaret A. Weitekamp - Stacks TL 789.85 A1 W45 2004
  • Outer space in society, politics and law edited by Christian Brünner and Alexander Soucek - Stacks KZD 1145 O95 2011