/ en /some-noteworthy-acquisitions-new-college-library-2025 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2025-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20BT3.38.19.png.webp?itok=dXi025xL" width="655" height="435" alt="91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library, Oxford, BT3.38.19" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Some Noteworthy Acquisitions to 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library in 2025 </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2025): 24</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/74" hreflang="en">Archives</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/601" hreflang="en">Francis Willis</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/688" hreflang="en">Edwin Sandys</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/689" hreflang="en">Thomas Russell</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/690" hreflang="en">William Crowe</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/450" hreflang="en">Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/462" hreflang="en">Cyril Hare</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/691" hreflang="en">Charles Cripps</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/541" hreflang="en">Ernest Victor Culme-Seymour</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/692" hreflang="en">A. P. Herbert</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/529" hreflang="en">John Fowles</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/387" hreflang="en">Edward Perry Warren</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/388" hreflang="en">Arthur Lyon Raile</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/693" hreflang="en">Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/694" hreflang="en">Sir Ernest Barker</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/695" hreflang="en">Lord David Cecil</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/696" hreflang="en">James Ridley</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/697" hreflang="en">Alan Hackney</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/698" hreflang="en">John Bayley</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/699" hreflang="en">Tom McCarthy</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/700" hreflang="en">Sophie Kinsella</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/701" hreflang="en">Geraldine Brooks</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>2025 has been a year of substantial acquisitions activity, as we accessioned into 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s library and archives important collections items broadening and deepening the strengths of our holdings for current and future researchers, as we continue to build our institutional repository of published and unpublished materials.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Custom-made <em>art nouveau</em> fine binding—Edward Perry Warren, <em>The Wild Rose</em> (London, 1909)&nbsp;<br>91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library, Oxford, BT3.38.19</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-12/24NCN9%20%282025%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20Acquisitions%202025.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1391675" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">24NCN9 (2025) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2025.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.33 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:41:06 +0000 Christopher 3505 at /learning-physics-new-college-1690s <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/BT3.248.11%282%29%20-%20p.%2019.jpg.webp?itok=mOLOKRZ8" width="655" height="435" alt="91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library, Oxford, BT3.248.11(2), p. 19" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Learning Physics in 91³Ô¹ÏÍø in the 1690s </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Poole</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/601" hreflang="en">Francis Willis</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/602" hreflang="en">Ralph Bohun</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/603" hreflang="en">BT3.248.11(2)</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>I recently re-encountered a little octavo textbook in physics published in 1690, the <em>Synopsis physicæ</em> by a 91³Ô¹ÏÍø man, Francis Willis. The author was from Thame, where his father—who had also attended the college—as the rector ran the local grammar school, an institution then under the college’s supervision. His textbook in physics is evidently the product of his reading and thinking for the MA, often the period in which students turned towards more in-depth study of, especially, natural philosophy. &nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>A tornado, in Ralph Bohun’s <em>A Discourse concerning the Origine and Properties of Wind</em> (1671)<br>91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library, Oxford, BT3.248.11(2), p. 19</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>91³Ô¹ÏÍø Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-12/22NCN4%20%282024%29%20Poole%20on%20Learning%20Physics.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=419018" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN4 (2024) Poole on Learning Physics.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">409.2 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:20:23 +0000 Christopher 3257 at