{"id":1879,"date":"2009-10-12T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2009-10-12T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:59:33","slug":"the-grandeur-of-life-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"The Grandeur of Life Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Celebration of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species:<br \/>\nAn Exhibition of Rare Books from the History of Science Collection<br \/>\n<\/strong>by William B. Ashworth, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1882\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/2009\/10\/12\/the-grandeur-of-life-exhibit\/img_1761\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_1761-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1761\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_1761-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_1761-1024x991.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_1761.JPG 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=linda+hall+library,+kansas+city&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=36.505383,78.837891&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=linda+hall+library,&amp;hnear=Kansas+City,+KS&amp;ll=39.03702,-94.578938&amp;spn=0.008334,0.019248&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Hall Library<\/a><br \/>\nWhen: October 1, 2009\u00a0through March 27, 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Monday: 9:00 am &#8211; 8:30 pm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Tuesday-Friday: 9:00 am &#8211; 5:00 pm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Saturday: 10:00 am &#8211; 4:00 pm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A little over a week ago, on the evening of October 1, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of this wonderful\u00a0exhibition.\u00a0 My words would put the exhibit to shame so read the introductory words that the library has published in a brochure for the exhibit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809.\u00a0 When he was fifty years old, in 1859, he published <em>On the Origin of Species<\/em>, a book destined to radically change our view of the living world.\u00a0 In 2009, we celebrate both the bicentennial of Darwin&#8217;s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his great work.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin began his scientific career as a naturalist, as someone who collected plant and animal specimens, studied and recorded the details of their structures, and attempted to identify and classify them.\u00a0 He thus worked within the framework that was known as natural history.\u00a0 Natural history had a vernerable pedigree, with its roots in Aristotle, but it especially flourished and matured in the four centuries before the <em>Origin of Species<\/em>.\u00a0 Darwin was the direct heir of naturalists like Konrad Gesner, who published the first illustrated encyclopedia of zoology (1551-58), Carl Linnaeus, who successfully sorted out the plant and animal kingdoms with his influential taxonmic <em>Systems of Nature <\/em>(1735), Joseph Banks, who sought new species in the south seas on the first voyage of Captain Cook (1768-71), and Jean Lamarck, who made the study of invertebrates a respectable branch of zoology (1801).<\/p>\n<p>We choose to honor Darwin, therefore, by showcasing the tradition out of which he himself evolved.\u00a0 Fortunately, for exhibition purposes, the works we have chosen to display are not only important intellectually, but are also some of the most beautiful books ever published.\u00a0 &#8220;There is gradeur in this view of life,&#8221; Darwin remarked in the last sentence of the <em>Origin of Species<\/em>.\u00a0 We hope our exhibition captures some of the grandeur, and of Darwin&#8217;s great achievement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I also had the pleasure of listening to Lyanda Haupt&#8217;s lecture on &#8220;<em>Darwin&#8217;s Evolution as Naturalist: A Bird&#8217;s-eye View&#8221;, <\/em>and have subsequently purchased and have begun to read her book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pilgrim-Great-Bird-Continent-Importance\/dp\/0316836648\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255198193&amp;sr=1-1-spell\" target=\"_blank\">Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0that the lecture was based on<em>.<\/em>\u00a0 It has been a good read\u00a0so far&#8230;<em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Luckily for you there are two remaining lectures in the series honoring Darwin, on October 29th and December 3rd.\u00a0 To learn more about these lectures visit Linda Hall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.lindahall.org\/lecture.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Lecture Series<\/a>\u00a0site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So, as we draw near\u00a0to the\u00a0anniversary of the publication of our<em> Origins<\/em>, take a few minutes and tour the grand exhibit at Linda Hall and please inspire your students to do the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Celebration of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species: An Exhibition of Rare Books from the History of Science Collection by William B. 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