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Michael Madeja
Those who know the organization and the staff, know the APS can be full of fun. From goofy chats with coworkers to UFO coloring books...
Renée Wolcott
When I first saw Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—its thin wooden boards warped and broken, its mold-eaten leaves as soft, pulpy, and ragged...
American Philosophical Society
By Verónica Ivette Mercado Oliveras, Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Verónica Mercado Oliveras, a Mellon Library and Archives Conservation Education Fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware...
Charles Greifenstein
Header Image: Francis Peyton Rous. Picture courtesy of the Royal Society. Letters are the type of document used most frequently by researchers who visit the...
American Philosophical Society
The Center for Digital Editing, the American Philosophical Society, and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Editorial Project at Princeton University Receive NEH Support to Plan...
American Philosophical Society
By Madeleine Engle, Cultural Fieldwork Initiative Intern, 2021 Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of working in the Education Programs Department at...
American Philosophical Society
Each year, the Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society hosts a rich intellectual community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in...
Marian Christ
Header image: Annie Jump Cannon, circa 1895. Credited to Linda Hall Library. Annie Jump Cannon was born in 1863 and elected to the American Philosophical...