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1. Scientific collections at the Edward Worth
Library
by
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian of the Edward Worth Library
www.edwardworthlibrary.ie

2. Portrait of Edward Worth (1678-1733)

3. The Edward Worth Library

4. Some of the Worth
Library’s fine
bindings

5. Due to a benefaction
by Professor Michael
Hunter, the Worth
Library also holds a
digital copy of Robert
Boyle archive in the
Royal Society.

6. Johannes Hevelius,
Selenographia (Gdansk, 1647).

7. Illustration from Ulisse
Aldrovandi, Monstrorum
historia (Bologna, 1642).

8. Francis Willughby’s De Historia
Piscium (Oxford, 1686).

9. The
posthumous
works of
Robert Hooke
(London,
1705)

10. Acacia and Narcissus in the
Villa Farnesina in 1625.

11. One of Worth’s
many work on
chymistry in early
modern Europe.

12. Stanisław Lubieniecki,
Theatrum cometicum
(Amsterdam, 1668),
detail of Canis Maior
constellation.

13. Worth’s Dutch edition of
the Collectanea
Chymica, first published
at London in 1684.

16. Jan Luyts,
Astronomica institutio
(Utrecht, 1692),
frontispiece.
From left to right this
depicts Galileo Galilei,
Johannes Hevelius,
Hipparchus (sitting),
Tycho Brahe,
Nicolaus Copernicus
and Ptolemy.

18. Genista, the name
from which the
Plantagenets took
their name. Worth’s
copy has been
annotated with the
English name
‘Broom’ in the right
hand corner.

19. Illustration of
Leonhard Fuch’s
illustrators and
engraver at the end
of his De historia
stirpium (Basle,
1542).

20. Francisco Hernandez’s
Nova plantarum,
animalium et mineralium
Mexicanorum historia
(Rome, 1651).

21. Pierre Belon’s L’histoire de
la nature des oyseaux
(Paris, 1555).

28. Frontispiece
portrait of Newton,
annotated by
Worth.

31. Portrait of
Bryan
Robinson

32. Richard Helsham

36. William Molyneux’s Sciothericum telescopium
(Dublin, 1686)

37. Contact Details:
Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8.
Tel: 01 635 2215
There will be Open Days at the
Edward Worth Library on
15 and 16 November 2012.
10.00am-1.00pm; 2.00pm-4.30pm
www.edwardworthlibrary.ie