Linda Hall Library

Have you considered applying for a Linda Hall Library fellowship? Join Benjamin Gross and Antoinette Bettasso TOMORROW for an online information session about the different types of research support available to historians of science and humanities scholars during the 2025-26 academic year. REGISTER: https://bit.ly/3W3MwWG

Happy New Year from Linda Hall Library! 🎉 We're grateful for your support and can't wait to share exciting new programs with you in 2025. Join our email list and be the first to learn about new programs, events, and collections updates! https://bit.ly/3Pj9Wnm

Linda Hall Library fellow Ericka Herazo aims to uncover debates and controversies that can provide insights into the social construction of AI technology. Meet Ericka and learn more about her project: https://bit.ly/403VUMo

The Library will be closed December 31-January 1 in observance of New Year's Day. We will open on Thursday, January 2 at 10:00 AM.

As a Linda Hall Library fellow, Tamara Kutsaieva's work will focus on the Library's Aldines collections. This very special collection of books about fundamental research topics and rare books. Meet Tamara and learn more about her work: https://bit.ly/4glPgH7

Looking for some entertainment while you recover from your holiday food coma? Catch up on our past programs online: https://bit.ly/4gJNBew

Season's greetings from the Trustees and Staff of the Linda Hall Library! Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a new year filled with knowledge and inspiration. Learn more about the image featured in this year's holiday card: https://bit.ly/400MqS9

The Library will be closed December 24-27 in observance of Christmas. We will open on Monday, December 30 at 10:00 AM.

December 21 marks the first day of Capricorn season. This woodcut of the Capricorn constellation is from a 1482 printing of an ancient work titled the Poeticon Astronomicon. A person identified as Hyginus is credited with the text, but there is much debate about who Hyginus was. Scholars assert that Hyginus was Roman and lived during the reign of Augustus (c. 27 BC – AD 14). The printer of this book, Erhard Ratdolt, incorporated star positions in the constellations, but these positions are not accurate and they are not located in the sky. In spite of these shortcomings, the book is among the earliest depictions of stars in constellations and is the oldest book in the Library to do this. The woodcuts in this book were also used as templates for future depictions of constellations that we recognize today. See the full work: https://bit.ly/3VeFAGV Image source: Hyginus. Poeticon Astronomicon. Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1482.

Is time a flat circle? Join us on January 11 for a Second Saturday matinee screening of 2016's Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Register for free: https://bit.ly/41GLO5o