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Archives & Rare Books Posts
From Germany to Japan: Georg Bartisch’s Cataract Surgery
Georg Bartisch’s Augendienst is one of the most famous books in the history of ophthalmology. While it is not the first ophthalmologic text to be printed in the vernacular German, it is perhaps the first text to grant the subject such elaborate treatment: Augendienst is no cheap pamphlet with basic illustrations, but a large folio [Read more]
Happy Valentine’s Day from Becker Archives!
Send your science-loving sweetie a valentine from Becker Archives and Rare Books!
The Becker Rare Books Tarot Project
If you stopped by the Annual Display of Rare Anatomical Books last week, you might have seen visitors hard at work on a scavenger hunt around the display. The fruit of their labors? The new tarot decks made with images from our rare book collections! Tarot cards are seen as divination tools and are thus [Read more]