Bullitt Lecture Fall 2024

"And even though in this section, our library is highly dominated by the Anglosphere, they still astonish me in how inclusive they are in bringing astronomy to everyone. In a subject often understood to have been dominated by white men, many of these books since the middle of the 19th century were written by, or for, women ("Astronomy for Everyone," p. 104)."

How do you go about finding works to cite in Astronomy? 

How do you go about fostering diverse and inclusive scientific communities in your own work? 

How can you imagine incorporating citational justice into your scholarship moving forward? 

Acknowledgement

Archives & Special Collections appreciates the continued generosity and support of Lowry Watkins Jr., the grandson of William Marshall Bullitt. Watkins has established an endowment to allow for the development of the Bullitt collection.

Note on reparative curation:

In our stewardship of the Bullitt collection, we aim to center and reckon with how the Bullitt family's accumulation of wealth derives from their documented enslaving of 301 people at their Kentucky plantations. The Bullitt family's financial gain from enslavement led to their ability to purchase the rare works now cared for by UofL. Emma Johansen, a University of Louisville graduate, has compiled a list of the names of those who were enslaved by the Bullitt family, which is accessible as part of the Filson Historical Society's digital project "I Scream America: The History of Enslaved People at Oxmoor Plantation".

Our team also aims to complicate how the collection presents and structures the canon of scientific knowledge through outreach, instruction, and continued collection development and curation.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543  

1543. Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De Revolvtionibvs Orbium Cœlestium, Libri VI: Habes in Hoc Opere Iam Recens Nato, & Ædito, Studiose Lector, Motus Stellarum, Tam Fixarum, Quàm Erraticarum, Cum Ex Ueteribus Tum Etiam Ex Recentibus Obseruationibus Restitutos: & Nouis Insuper Ac Admirabilibus Hypothesibus Ornatos. Habes Etiam Tabulas Expeditissimas, Ex Quibus Eosdem Ad Quoduis Tempus Quàm Facillime Caculare Poteris. Igitur Eme, Lege, Fruere. [Line in Greek]. Norimbergæ: apud Ioh. Petreium. 

RARE BULLITT QB41 .C76 1543 

Descartes, René, 1596-1650  

1637. Discours De La Methode Pour Bien Conduire Sa Raison, & Chercher La Verité Dans Les Sciences : Plus La Dioptriqve ; Les Meteores ; Et La Geometrie ; Qui Sont Des Essais De Cete Methode. A Leyde: De l'imprimerie de Ian Maire. 

RARE BULLITT B1845 1637 

Euler, Leonard, 1707-1783 

1744. Theoria Motuum Planetarum Et Cometarum: Continens Methodum Facilem Ex Aliquot Observationibus Orbitas Cum Planetarum Tum Cometarum Determinandi. Una Cum Calculo, Quo Cometæ, Qui Annis 1680, Et 1681, Itemque Ejus, Qui Nuper Est Visus, Motvs Verus Investigatur. Berolini: Sumtibus Ambrosii Haude. Gift of University of Louisville Physics Faculty 

RARE BULLITT QB355 .E8 1744 

Galileo, 1564-1642 

1632. Dialogo Di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Sopraordinario Dello Studio Di Pisa. E Filosofo, E Matematico Primario Del Serenissimo Gr. Duca Di Toscana. Doue Ne I Congressi Di Quattro Giornate Si Discorre Sopra I Due Massimi Sistemi Del Mondo Tolemaico, E Copernicano; : Proponendo Indeterminatamente Le Ragioni Filosofiche, E Naturali Tanto Per L'vna, Quanto Per L'altra Parte. In Fiorenza,: Per Gio: Batista Landini. 

RARE BULLITT QB41 .G136 1632 

1653. Galilei Galilei Nuntius Sidereus.  Londini: Typis Jacobi Flesher, prostant apud Gulielmum Morden, bibliopolam Cantabrigiensem and Cornelius Bee. Bound with Gassendi and Kepler. Gift of Lowry Watkins, Jr.  

RARE BULLITT QB41 .G2 1653 

Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 

1698. The Celestial Worlds Discover’d, or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets. London: Printed for Timothy Childe at the White Hart at the west-end of St. Paul’s Church-yard. 

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 

1615. Nova Stereometria Doliorvm Vinariorvm. Lincii: excudebat J. Plancvs, sumptibus authoris. 

RARE BULLITT QA636 .K38 1615 

1619. Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices Mundi Libri V : Quorum Primus Geometricus, De Figurarum Regularium, Quae Proportiones Harmonicas Constituunt, Ortu & Demonstrationibus : Secundus Architectonicus, Seu Ex Geometria Figurata, De Figurarum Regularium Congruentia in Plano Vel Solido : Tertius Propriè Harmonicus, De Proportionum Harmonicarum Ortu Ex Figuris, Deque Naturá & Differentiis Rerum Ad Cantum Pertinentium, Contra Veteres : Quartus Metaphysicus, Psychologicus & Astrologicus, De Harmoniarum Mentali Essentiá Earumque Generibus in Mundo, Praesertim De Harmonia Radiorum, Ex Corporibus Coelestibus in Terram Descendentibus, Eiusque Effectu in Natura Seu Anima Sublunari & Humana : Quintus Astronomicus & Metaphysicus, De Harmoniis Absolutissimis Motuum Coelestium, Ortuque Eccentricitatum Ex Proportionibus Harmonicis : Appendix Habet Comparationem Huius Operis Cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemaei Libro III. Cumque Roberti De Fluctibus, Dicti Flud. Medici Oxoniensis Speculationibus Harmonicis, Operi De Macrocosmo & Microcosmo Insertis. Lincii Austriae: Sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii excudebat Ioannes Plancus. 

RARE BULLITT Q41 .K38 1619 

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827  

1796. Exposition Du Systême Du Monde. A Paris,: De l'Imprimerie du Cercle-Social .... 2 volumes  

RARE BULLITT QB42 .L26 1796 

1798. Traité De Mécanique Céleste. Paris: Chez J.B.M. Duprat. 5 volumes 

RARE BULLITT QB 51 .L29 1798 

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 

1687. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Londini: Jussu Societatis Regiæ ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas.  The Halifax copy, with Newton’s handwritten annotations on the errata page. [Available for research appointments]

RARE BULLITT QA803 .A2 1687 

1704. Opticks, or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light : Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. London: Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard.  

RARE BULLITT QC353 .N57 1704 

Ptolemy, active 2nd century 

1541. Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis Alexandrini Omnia, Quae Extant, Opera, Geographia Excepta : Quam Seorsim Quo[Que] Hac Forma Impressimus. Almagesti Seu Magnae Compositionis Mathematicae Opus, À Georgio Trapezuntio Tralatum, Lib. Xiii. De Iudicijs Astrologicis, Aut, Ut Uulgò Uocant, Quadripartitae Co[n]Structionis, Lib. Iiii. Quoru[m] Priores Duo À Ioachimo Camerario Latinitate Donati Sunt: In Reliquis Emendauimus Multa Ad Ueterum Exemplariu[m] Ueritate[m], Adiectis Etiam Graecis, Nihil Omittentes Quo Lectio Fieret Correctior & Expeditior. Centum Sententiae, Quod Centiloquium Dicunt, À Iouiano Pontano Uersae. Inerratium Stellarum Significationes, Per Nicolaum Leonicum Traductae. Procli Diadochi Hypotyposes Astronomicarum Positionum, Qu[a]e Est Omnium, Qu[a]e in Almagesto Demonstrantur, Epitome & Compendium, Quod Ad Reminiscentiam Conduce Plurimum, Georgio Valla Placentino Interprete. Ex, in Omnibus Disciplinis Principum Uirorum, Exemplaribus Emendauimus Almagesti Plurima Loca & Figuras Nonnullas, Quas Sculptas in Primo Huius Operis Limine Posuimus, Quoniam Magnam Lucem Uidebantur Allatur[a]e Rebus Sua Natura Obscurioribus. Ob Qua[m] Causam Etiam Censuimus Addendas Luc[Ae] Gaurici Annotationes. Item Omnium Constellationum Figuras Graphicè, Propter Singulare Studiosorum Comodum, Depinximus. Basileae: Apud Henricum Petrum. 

RARE BULLITT QB41 .P9 1541  

Rhäticus, Georg Joachim, 1514-1576  

1540. Narratio Prima. Danzig: Rhodus,  

QB41.C815 R46 1540 

And, for fun!

Euclid

1482. Elementa Geometriae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt.  

RARE BULLITT QA31 .E878 1482 

1570. The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. Imprinted at London: By Iohn Daye. 

RARE BULLITT QA31 .E87 1570 

Nuremburg Chronicle

1493. Lib[er] Cronicarum : Cu[m] Figuris et Ymagibus Ab Inicio Mu[n]di. [Nuremberg]: Anthonius Koberger Nuremberge impressit.

RARE FOLIO D17 .S3 1493