Treatise on mathematics and astronomy: written about the year 1680, in Boston

Bound volume containing a late 17th century handwritten mathematical and astronomical text in one hand. The text is separated into mathematical and astronomical sections with rules, instructions for performing calculations, tables, and drawings. The subjects include arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and trigonometry, and segments have titles such as "Subtraction," "A decimal table of English coince," "Logarithes & their use," and "To find the true place of the sun." The text is undated and unattributed but references Briggs, Oughtred, Ramus, and Apollonius. Certain tables are calculated from latitudinal and longitudinal numbers associated with Boston, and many of the examples use dates in the 1670s and 1680. The manuscript pages are mounted onto unruled pages, and some of the manuscript pages are fragments.

Divest Harvard: Climate justice, higher education, and fossil fuel divestment

On the 19 November 2014, seven Harvard students — the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition — have brought a legal action against Harvard University to compel it to withdraw its investments from fossil fuel companies. The plaintiffs include the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition; Alice Cherry, a law student; Benjamin Franta, a physics student interested in renewable energy; Sidni Frederick, a student of history and literature; Joseph Hamilton, a law student; Olivia Kivel, a biologist interested in sustainable farming; Talia Rothstein, a student of history and literature; and Kelsey Skaggs, a law student from Alaska interested in climate justice. The Harvard Climate Justice Coalition also bringing the lawsuit as ‘next friend of Plaintiffs Future Generations, individuals not yet born or too young to assert their rights but whose future health, safety, and welfare depends on current efforts to slow the pace of climate change.’ The case of Harvard Climate Justice Coalition v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, is being heard in the Suffolk County Superior Court of Massachusetts. The dispute will be an important precedent on the ongoing policy and legal battles in respect of climate change, education, and fossil fuel divestment.

Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas.

no.64 (1977)

Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History.

no.53 (1971)

The University of Kansas science bulletin.

v.38:pt.2 (1958)

Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History.

no.45 (1967)

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.

v.109 (1953)

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.

v.13 (1886-1888)

Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas.

no.10 (1972)

Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History.

no.26 (1960)

Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas.

no.15 (1973)

Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History.

no.44 (1966)