Word: wheatland
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...this college, which was seen as being in the wilderness, had the foresight to gather a collection of scientific apparati,” said Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Sara Schechner. Years in the making, the collection consists of pieces gathered and donated by David P. Wheatland ’22 and other artifacts Harvard has amassed since its 1636 inception. “David Wheatland had a profound sense in the middle of the twentieth century...[and he] built this splendid collection, which unfortunately, until now, did not have a display space,” Brandt...
Harvard’s presentation was the brainchild of Sara J. Schechner ’79, Wheatland Curator of Harvard’s Collection of Scientific Instruments. Schechner, who has been studying Harvard’s early work in the sciences since her undergraduate years, said she went back into the archives this year to learn more about Winthrop and his transit observations, and came up with the idea of using his original apparatus to view the phenomenon in our own time...