The Consortium is delighted to welcome University of Oklahoma as its newest member. OU is home to one of the oldest programs in the U.S. in history of science, technology and medicine, as well as the History of Science Collections. Scholars will be able to apply for Consortium fellowships to use OU collections starting in spring 2020.
The Collections hold nearly 100,000 print volumes, with strengths in traditional fields including astronomy, physics, natural history, geology, technology, and science and religion. Areas of recent concentration include women in science, Islamicate science, star maps, and science and technology in Asia. History of environmental science, geology, meteorology, technology, physics, science and Native American culture, and natural history in the American West are featured in the Western History Collections and University Archives.
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These confection-like illustrations are actual representations of objects viewed under a polariscope, spotted in the title The microscope (1867) by Jabez Hogg. According to the text, “This plate is especially intended to illustrate the beautiful and gorgeous spectacle produced by polarized light on the various objects here grouped together. Image courtesy of Yale University.