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Great Books of the Scientific Revolution: Galileo and Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
Wed, October 23, 2019
6:15 P.M.
Independence Library
Galileo was a strident and dogmatic defender of the Copernican model of the universe. In various books and pamphlets he presented what he considered evidence for the heliocentric system. Despite his telescope and his new observations, many people read and evaluated Galileo’s texts, and…
Great Books of the Scientific Revolution: Hooke and Micrographia
Wed, October 30, 2019
6:15 P.M.
Independence Library
Just as the telescope opened the celestial realm to our inspection, revealing worlds never before imagined, Hooke’s microscope revealed the previously invisible (and often terrifying) worlds all around us. Hooke and his contemporaries used their microscopes, detailed artwork, and the…
First Friday Genealogy
Fri, November 1, 2019
12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.
Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Mon, November 4, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and…
Erica Armstrong Dunbar | She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Tue, November 5, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Lorene Cary , author of Black Ice , The Price of a Child , Ladysitting and the forthcoming Arden Theatre production of My General Tubman Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, a young enslaved person who…
Great Books of the Scientific Revolution: Newton and Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Wed, November 6, 2019
6:15 P.M.
Independence Library
In 1687 the first edition of Newton’s Principia mathematica was published, synthesizing much of his work up to that point. Newton’s three laws of motion unified the physics of the celestial and terrestrial realms in one neat explanatory framework grounded in mathematics. But…
First Friday Genealogy
Fri, December 6, 2019
12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.