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Cary Graphic Arts Collection is one of the world’s premier libraries on graphic communication history and practices. Our growing library holds over 45,000 volumes and over 130 archival collections.
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April 12, 2024
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Cary Collection opening Thursday was grand
What do Nicolas Copernicus, William Morris, and Joe Kubert have in common? Works by the astronomer, designer, and comics artist—legends in their respective fields—are represented in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and are now accessible to everyone in the remodeled Wallace Library.
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February 22, 2024
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Rare, centuries-old astronomy texts donated to RIT
Spectrum News talks to Steven Galbraith, curator of the Melbert B. Cary Graphic Arts Collection, about the books.
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February 2, 2024
![the aging text of Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium is shown open to middle pages.]()
Centuries-old astronomy texts find new home at RIT
WHAM-TV features the donation of texts by early astronomers Copernicus and Sacrobosco to RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
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January 29, 2024
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Centuries-old texts penned by early astronomers Copernicus and Sacrobosco find new home at RIT
The ancient astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist to document the theory that the sun is the center of the universe in his book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). That first edition book, along with a delicate manuscript from astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco, that is contrary to Copernicus’ groundbreaking theory, has now found a permanent home at Rochester Institute of Technology.
