Online Exhibitions
In addition to our digitized books, Linda Hall Library also maintains online exhibitions utilizing digitized images from our collections. Students can investigate these exhibiionts to see highlighted pictures, drawings, and text about the major impacts astronomical findings have had throughout history.
Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
This online exhibition walks the viewer through the highlights of Linda Hall Library's star atlas and celestrial map collection spanning the years between 1482 to 1851. These images not only depict the location of stars across the universe, but also detail characters and stories humanity has created about constellations throughout history. The celestial atlases included in this exhibit focus on Eurasian, Western constellations and mythologies, but can open a discussion into worldwide exploration of the cosmos.
Navigate this exhibition through the small, boxed pictures found in the middle of the first webpage and bottom of other pages. Clicking the "Next" box will take you through the entire exhibit in order, however the "Index" can be useful if you want to jump to specific authors' work, and "Table of Contents" shows you an overview of the exhibit's main topics.
Students studying field biology or biological illustration can explore this exhibition to learn more about the history of birdwatching, ornithology, and field guide creation in North America. Sections 1 through 3 outline the basic concepts of what ornithology is, while sections 4 to 6 give more detail on how ornithological communities shared and preserved their findings. Section 8 showcases a couple of related lectures hosted by Linda Hall Library, which pair well with exploration of this online exhibit.
Mapping the Moon: A Brief History of Lunar Cartography from Galileo to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Digitized materials previously discussed in this guide come back again in this exhibition about humanity's journey to better understand the moon's surface. Images from both Galileo's work and "Atlas Photographique de la Lune" make appearances, but this online exhibit goes a step further in tracing the lunar research that occured between these two publications, and continues exploration of scientific instruments used in mapping the moon's surface into the early 21st century. The final section of this exhibit showcases a couple of related lectures hosted by Linda Hall Library, which pair well with exploration of this lunar atlas content.