Saturday July 20th marks the centenary of the birth of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Born in Auckland, New Zealand on July 20th 1919, Edmund Percival Hillary made his first climb at the age of twenty, reaching the summit of Mount Olliver in the Canterbury Region ofContinue reading “Celebrating the Centenary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Birth.”
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Rare Book Highlights: Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body.
First published by Joannis Oporini in 1543, Sixteenth century Flemish anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body remains the most important and influential book in the study of human anatomy and “one of the most beautiful scientific books ever printed”(Grolier). Vesalius studied medicine at the University of Paris and receivedContinue reading “Rare Book Highlights: Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body.”