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...Treasure Room in Widener will be given over to an exhibition of works significant in the history of science. Only the years between 1500 and 1800 have been drawn upon, because of the rarity of books before those years, and the abundance after them. Vesalius "De Humani Corperi Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural...