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Catalogue Of Seventeenth-Century Books In Science Held By The George Arents Research Library, Eileen Snyder
Catalogue Of Seventeenth-Century Books In Science Held By The George Arents Research Library, Eileen Snyder
The Courier
This article serves as a bibliography for the scientific books, mainly from the seventeenth century, that are housed in the Syracuse University Special Collections. They draw from three main collections: the Muckenhoupt Collection, the Wolff-Leavenworth Collection, and the Leopold von Ranke library. The books are written by scientific pioneers such as Copernicus, Newton, Benjamin Franklin, and many others.
Dryden's Virgil: Some Special Aspects Of The First Folio Edition, Arthur W. Hoffman
Dryden's Virgil: Some Special Aspects Of The First Folio Edition, Arthur W. Hoffman
The Courier
This article relates the history of John Dryden's translation of Vergil's Aeneid, a first folio edition of which is located at Syracuse University Special Collections. Dryden's translation, written in seventeenth century England, reflected the tense polticial environment of the times, and competed with several translations from other writers.