Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections Martha Glowacki’s Natural History

from the Historical Collections of Ebling Health Sciences Library, in an exhibit on view February 6– June 2, 2017, in Special Collections—Natural History :: Natural Philosophy—designed to complement Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections at the Chazen Museum of Art (March 3–May 14, 2017) and the Burdick-Vary Symposium “New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History” organized by Prof. Lynn Nyhart through the Institute for Research in the Humanities (March 3–4, 2017). The checklist that follows identifies the titles on display in Special Collections; we invite you to explore the wealth of our holdings of science and natural history, following Thordarson’s lead in asking “questions of nature” both in our exhibit and in our reading room. Robin E. Rider Curator of Special Collections Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library University of Wisconsin–Madison Notes 1 Neil M. Clark, “The flare of the northern lights started Thordarson on his quest,” The American magazine (De- cember 1926), 36–37, 183–190. About Thordarson’s book collecting, see, for example, Jens Christian Bay, “Bibliotheca Thordarsoniana,” Papers of the Bibliograph- ical Society of America, v. 23 (1929), 1–17; and Ralph Hagedorn, “Bibliotheca Thordarsoniana: The se- quel,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 44 (1950), 1–26. 2 Francis Hauksbee, Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects (London: Printed by R. Brugis for the author, 1709), Preface, a[i] recto. 3 A translation (1852) into Icelandic by his maternal uncle Magnús Grímsson of Elementar-Naturlehre by Johann Georg Fischer. 4 Clark, “The flare of the northern lights,” 184. 5 Catalogues 477 and 481 (1926), entitled English liter- ature & printing from the 15th to the 18th century, parts I and II. 6 E.g., Gilbert Doane, “Chester H. Thordarson and his books,” Library news: A staff bulletin, v. 1, no. 3 (Sept. 1956), 4–5; John Neu, “The acquisition of the Thordarson collection,” U.W. Library news, v. 11, no. 3 (March 1966), 1–6; Dennis A. Hill, “The Rare Book Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Origins and early developments, 1948–1960,” Transac- tions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Let- ters, v. 72 (1984), 40–48, which recounts the circum- stances of the University’s acquisition of Thordarson’s collection. 75

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