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The scene aestheticizes domination, presenting cultivation as civilization and reinforcing the hierarchical relationship between man and land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/cfc16ecd-968b-4fb6-bfff-9a74e5e65dce/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.27.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Grafting as Method: Art, Repair, & the Archive - Make it stand out Figure 2. This engraving depicts laborers systematically clearing and labeling the landscape, transforming the earth into a grid of stumps and data. Nature is rendered measurable and obedient—a surface to be improved, owned, and rationalized through human intervention. The image embodies a colonial gaze that equates the control of extraction with progress, marking the land itself as a conquered subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/df53de40-fa48-422f-a327-7b2be78d6946/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.28.21%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Grafting as Method: Art, Repair, & the Archive - Make it stand out Figure 3. Bo Kim, Artist-Researcher Field Notebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/cce9d6b3-6116-42cf-a0c8-cb2b7cedee73/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.29.20%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Grafting as Method: Art, Repair, & the Archive - Make it stand out Figure 4. Left: Rare book repair observed at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. Photograph by Bo Kim. Right: The English Improver Improved (1649), digital scan from the University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/14b0bf56-9b95-455d-a517-3ad70a97c8e1/Screenshot+2025-11-20+at+9.30.35%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Grafting as Method: Art, Repair, & the Archive - Make it stand out Figure 5. Bo Kim, Ho-mi Tool Station Installation at A.P.E Gallery. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/roeblog/meet-the-pollinators-of-the-kinney-center monthly 0.5 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/c842c2fa-a9f2-492d-9fb9-99eb344ef18e/Screenshot+2025-10-23+at+11.07.54%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Meet the Pollinators of the Kinney Center - Make it stand out Figure 1. Ava Liberty (NRC Forestry student ‘26) and Mariah Klank (GCC Summer Intern) catch pollinators with nets in the Kinney Center Meadow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/ae2bdbe9-0efa-43e6-84bc-2f513cd93d02/Screenshot+2025-10-23+at+11.12.24%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Meet the Pollinators of the Kinney Center - Make it stand out Table 1. Pollinator species observed at the Kinney Center Meadow 8/19/25. Species listed include not only bees and butterflies but also wasps and flies, which are important and often overlooked wild pollinators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/38f91c1d-c1b1-4e70-9cd8-53db66e456c7/Screenshot+2025-10-23+at+11.13.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - Meet the Pollinators of the Kinney Center - Make it stand out Figure 2. A Hairy-Banded Mining Bee (Andrena hirticincta) rests on goldenrod (Solidago sp.). Bees in the mining bee genus (Andrena spp.) are distinguished in part by patches of flattened hairs that run along the insides of their eyes like eyebrows (known as facial fovea). Image Credit: Nicole Bell https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/roeblog/how-ktos-became-whale-oceanic-cosmologies-in-sky-and-sea monthly 0.5 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/0a0581f2-157b-4033-b0d0-13e4b599622d/Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Psalterium_Georgii%2C_Fluvius_Eridanus%2C_Cetus%2C_Officina_Sculptoris%2C_Fornax_Chemica%2C_and_Machina_Electrica.jpeg Renaissance of the Earth Blog - How Kētos became Whale: Oceanic Cosmologies in Sky and Sea - Make it stand out Figure 1: "Psalterium Georgii, Fluvius Eridanus, Cetus, Officina Sculptoris, Fornax Chemica, and Machina Electrica," plate 28 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy by Jehoshaphat Aspin, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/45d69742-f48a-4107-83ac-48561715853e/Fig+2+Whale%2C+men+in+boat+on+its+back.+England+c.+1236.+BL.png Renaissance of the Earth Blog - How Kētos became Whale: Oceanic Cosmologies in Sky and Sea - Make it stand out Figure 2 : Whale, men in a boat on its back. 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https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/calendar/mapping-terroir monthly 0.5 2022-06-28 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/calendar/ewe mass monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/calendar/preservation monthly 0.5 2022-06-28 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/fatal-flora-rare-book daily 0.75 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727801049097-961S68HN6VAXQFKDOHHN/Lawson.png Fatal Flora Rare Book William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their kitchen garden and, in doing so, makes the distinction between women's "common" knowledge and men's "expert" knowledge. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727801049097-961S68HN6VAXQFKDOHHN/Lawson.png Fatal Flora Rare Book William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their kitchen garden and, in doing so, makes the distinction between women's "common" knowledge and men's "expert" knowledge. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727801047544-3MX56X2SSSPNKVH7YA8I/image00020.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book Datura stramonium, also called "Thornapple" for its spiky seedpods or "Devil's Trumpet" for the bell shape of its blossom. Medicinally, thornapple can reduce inflammation, however, it is highly poisonous and can cause delirium, psychosis, and even death. This specimen is held in the UMass Herbarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727804968289-NO125OXD7N9YN69BQ7DD/Herbal.png Fatal Flora Rare Book John Gerard, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1633) Open to the entry for Devil’s Trumpet, this example invites visitors to consider the medicinal properties of this deadly plant--for example, when boiled with lard it is an effective anti-inflammatory. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752688620527-01JKA1AJKHCKLTTVAIG1/IMG_0752.JPG Fatal Flora Rare Book Original artworks are displayed alongside the books that inspired them in the reading room. Visitors to the exhibit opening for Fatal Flora meet artist Susan Montgomery and learn more about her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727803688714-N5JAPGSRMCQW0J2CNCOO/img_9589.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book John Reynolds, The Triumphs of God’s Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther (1679) This chronicle contains several "histories" detailing a variety of murders, several of which involved poisons--particularly women poisoning their husbands with plants. Held in the Kinney Center rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727803750532-BI19K6NUEB6TPS5942R6/image00018.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book Aconitum napellus, also known as "wolfsbane" or "queen of poisons" While sometimes used as a sedative or fever reducer, a very small dose of wolfsbane can cause respiratory paralysis and heart failure. This specimen is held in the UMass Herbarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752688637308-K4RJRGE03N5ZKA7TJCXL/IMG_0763.JPG Fatal Flora Rare Book Students attending the opening of Fatal Flora engage with a variety of rare material available in the Center’s collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elementsadjacent-calendar daily 0.75 2024-10-07 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elementsadjacent-calendar/art-music-voice-of-the-whale monthly 0.5 2024-10-07 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elementsadjacent-calendar/courtney-m-leonard-breach-logbook-24-staccato monthly 0.5 2024-10-07 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elementsadjacent-calendar/rachel-portmans-tipping-pointsnbspmary-lyon-concert monthly 0.5 2024-10-07 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elementsadjacent-calendar/earth-amp-its-elements monthly 0.5 2024-10-07 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/lifeunderground daily 0.75 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/25f44ecb-dc77-40c5-8156-73cc0dbed75a/Entry+%231+Banner.jpeg Life Underground https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/lifeunderground/how-did-early-moderns-feed-the-soil monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/228923b0-af2e-4e43-af86-7bdb1a82cfdf/Entry+%235+John+Worlidge%E2%80%99s+1681+Systema+Agriculturae+at+RC+Rare+S509+.W6+1681.jpeg Life Underground - How did early moderns feed the soil? - Make it stand out John Worlidge’s 1681 Systema Agriculturae at RC Rare S509 .W6 1681 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/34fca8bc-ac0e-4770-bfa1-b95c322bb45d/Entry+%235+Walter+Blith%E2%80%99s+1653+The+English+Improver+at+RC+Rare+S509+.B6+1653.jpeg Life Underground - How did early moderns feed the soil? - Make it stand out Walter Blith’s 1653 The English Improver at RC Rare S509 .B6 1653 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a098d7cc-f00d-4fae-96cd-1d046f050cd4/Entry+%235+Caption+John+Worlidge%E2%80%99s+1681+Systema+Agriculturae+at+RC+Rare+S509+.W6+1681.jpeg Life Underground - How did early moderns feed the soil? - Make it stand out John Worlidge’s 1681 Systema Agriculturae at RC Rare S509 .W6 1681 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/0f2b34ea-74a3-41a2-8cf1-bccb3dc4890d/Entry+%235+Hannah+Fall+2024+in+the+garden.jpeg Life Underground - How did early moderns feed the soil? - Make it stand out Hannah in the garden, Fall 2024 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/lifeunderground/what-happens-when-nematodes-stop-squirming monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/bdd8c539-a8d2-49f6-8691-12b6cd60c6e9/Entry+%234+Small+carrot+plants+in+dry+garden+soil.+Fall+2024..jpeg Life Underground - What happens when nematodes stop squirming? - Make it stand out Small carrot plants in dry garden soil. Fall 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a676250d-6ae0-416a-951b-199ff9d9df91/Entry+%234+Bacterial+%28free-living%29+nematode.jpeg Life Underground - What happens when nematodes stop squirming? - Make it stand out Bacterial (free-living) nematode https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/lifeunderground/what-is-beautiful-rotting monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/0d13dae0-69d2-418d-aa2a-712105dbbd0a/Entry+%233+Bacterial+%28free-living%29+nematode.jpg Life Underground - What is beautiful rotting? - Make it stand out Bacterial (free-living) nematode https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/bf9217ec-592d-487d-9bdc-e16f56d40758/Entry+%233+Fallen+leaves+and+branches+providing+cover+and+organic+matter+for+soil.+Winter+2024..png Life Underground - What is beautiful rotting? - Make it stand out Fallen leaves and branches providing cover and organic matter for soil. 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Renaissance of the Earth Fellow, Hannah Gould - Lance head https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/lifeunderground/digging-dirt monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/14dc7d3c-e2ab-41cf-a6d8-ce1167d6e957/Entry+%231+Hannah+collecting+soil+samples.jpeg Life Underground - What happens when you dig dirt? - Make it stand out Hannah collecting soil samples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/03112ab0-5bf9-4192-a4d3-2aaae7741ca3/Bacterial+%28free-living%29+nematode.jpg Life Underground - What happens when you dig dirt? - Make it stand out Bacterial (free-living) nematode https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/cdf5285e-d7ed-477e-847a-0b988c28ea6e/Entry+%231+Nematode+tables.jpeg Life Underground - What happens when you dig dirt? - Make it stand out Nematode tables https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/seasonal-distortions-1 daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845491136-2J6IV98DSNIPU0JMX39T/Wharton+%281658%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) This text is an example of a 17th almanac, containing conventional information on meteorological phenomena, tidal activity, market dates, English history, and law terms. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845491136-2J6IV98DSNIPU0JMX39T/Wharton+%281658%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) This text is an example of a 17th almanac, containing conventional information on meteorological phenomena, tidal activity, market dates, English history, and law terms. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845503457-GFN56GM1SAU2VZOKL6HD/Wharton+%281658%29+2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) Almanac owners often filled blank pages with writing, typically that associated with the activities of daily life. On this page we see an account of “Disease that was Amongst Horses in 1655.” Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845508187-4YRZZHRKBTQ636AXR9QX/Wharton+%281658%29+3.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) We also see annotated almanacs filled with notes of local travel, household accounts, and even medicinal or culinary recipes. This page includes a recipe for pickling mushrooms. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692172648-96NMPDFMN2G1K110ELA5/IMG_1392.JPG Seasonal Distortions Gallery Artist in Residence Felicity Sheehy reads from her original poetry, inspired by the Kinney Center’s collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845441630-SMH6Y1ZO6CVLGGDHGZVV/Browne+%281625%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery Daniel Browne, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (1625) Almanacs served as helpful guides for farmers and merchants, containing information on important dates of the year, market times, and lunar/tidal cycles. The early modern almanac was often published with a “prognostication,” which contains a list of major historical events, astrological predictions based on season and region, a husbandry guide, and chart for computing interest. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845445206-0OR2N7NYPMAEO2OOS3PG/Browne+%281625%29+2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery Daniel Browne, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (1625) The anonymous owner of the Center’s 1625 almanac has written notes in the book’s calendars, mostly referencing travel. In this example, we see this almanac’s owner visited “knottford faire” on June 7. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692054388-8NZQ4TDWRMNDIR7LY94L/IMG_1358.JPG Seasonal Distortions Gallery As part of her residency, Felicity created a hands-on works that invited students, scholars, and members of the public to practice her process—engaging in creative and scholarly practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845480148-LSV1JF03M6ONYS8IUF1Z/Evelyn+%281683%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery John Evelyn, Kalendarium Hortense (1683) This almanac, like many in the early modern period, guides the amateur gardener through each months of the year—laying out when to plant, when to harvest, and when to anticipate blossoms or fruit. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845485789-1QGDQY05I1O61CKL1N21/Evelyn+%281683%29++2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Gallery John Evelyn, Kalendarium Hortense (1683) For the month of June, Evelyn directs his reader on how to best harvest, dry, and distill herbs. He also encourages them to begin pest management now, offering a variety of methods to “destroy insects.” Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692301661-XI5S6I53YIBK2F38B4YD/IMG_1374.JPG Seasonal Distortions Gallery Participants in Felicity’s workshop generated new poems as they engaged with rare texts and explored natural elements gathered from the Center’s landscape. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/apocalypse-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752783247346-R99MCBCDOVAJ1JJJHV8B/22110_071.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) The frontispiece of this text depicts a geological history of the earth that include the flood, followed by the formation of continents as the waters receded. Burnet also speculates that the earth will undergo a fiery conflagration before it returns to an Edenic state. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752765616678-677CCKMXGYVCONGLQU27/22110_071.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) The frontispiece of this text depicts a geological history of the earth that includes the flood, followed by the formation of continents as the waters receded. Burnet also speculates that the earth will undergo a fiery conflagration before it returns to an Edenic state. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752783247346-R99MCBCDOVAJ1JJJHV8B/22110_071.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) The frontispiece of this text depicts a geological history of the earth that include the flood, followed by the formation of continents as the waters receded. Burnet also speculates that the earth will undergo a fiery conflagration before it returns to an Edenic state. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692859162-N2GOWG135ZG7F7I2JI7V/IMG_2864.jpeg Apocalypse Gallery Visitors to the exhibit opening gained hands-on experience using the Kinney Center’s 20th Century acorn press to print an excerpt from Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761755334-0FIBUJGI2CV7PPNX5CPZ/Boulenger+%281688%29+2.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Jean Boulenger, Traite' de la sphere du monde (1688) This text by a French mathematician investigates the rotation and movement of the Earth and other planets. This diagram explains the revolutions of the planets around the sun. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761753633-CNKXFD22GE1FV4TDMD22/Heywood+%281635%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Thomas Heywood, Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels (1635) Heywood's poetical inventory of angels including their names, orders, and offices. Depicted in this copperplate engraving, we see the fall of Lucifer and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692859071-AW7NB39F0FDEYWNN0RBD/IMG_2832.jpeg Apocalypse Gallery Suzette Marie Martin, Cherubim of the Flaming Sword (2023) This original work combines language and text from the IPCC Report (2021), Vulgate Bible (1495), Hierarchie of Blessed Angels (1634), and Traité de la Sphère du Monde (1688). Together these materials offer viewers an allegory of consequences for industrialized humanity’s cumulative, destructive behaviors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692549659-ZUATRKO7VJ8E2JB8VSCQ/Suzette+Reception+1.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Students and members of the Amherst community listen intently as artist Suzette Marie Martin discusses her process, interspersing images and text from current IPPC reports with images from early modern earth science and geological studies and the Vulgate Bible (1495). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761752532-WEPWU4W3NEZIRB9OF5CS/Vulgate+Bible+%281495%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Vulgate Bible (1495) This page is from the Book of Genesis. The two central columns are the text of the Bible, while the outer columns are commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (ca. 1270–1349). Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692904076-LKFAQOIQUFKD4ZC3N2UA/IMG_6127.jpeg Apocalypse Gallery Marjorie Rubright, Kinney Center Director, welcomes guests to the opening of Apocalypse: Science & Myth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761752420-2AFY05C4JXGQ04UXMFLY/Woodward+%281695%29.jpg Apocalypse Gallery John Woodward, An Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695) Woodward wrote about the effects of the Biblical Deluge with a particular interest in geology and the formation of minerals. Like many writers of his time, he looked for scientific evidence of the creation of the world. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761755218-Q1B0QQFAYX217UO1CYFE/Boyle+%281677%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Robert Boyle, Paradoxica Hydrostatica Novis Experimentis (1677) Although this illustration of Boyle's air pump first appeared in his New Experiments Physico-Mechanical (1660), the Center's copy of his Paradoxa hydrostatica (1677) also contains this image. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752770966418-V4YUD4E9IPHB10S7AE3M/Screenshot+2025-07-17+at+12.49.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Apocalypse Gallery Suzette Marie Martin, Hydrostatica Paradoxica (2023). The air pump was used in experiments for some of Boyle’s most famous scientific contributions: that vacuums can exist in nature and that the pressure of air is in inverse proportion to its volume (Boyle’s Law). Juxtaposed with text from the Vulgate Bible and IPCC report, we are reminded that Boyle’s Law helps to explain how changes in pressure and volume affect the circulation of air pollution. Held in the Kinney Center’s permanent art collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692880393-QDL3QK26V6ZGV6YKJKNH/IMG_2935.jpeg Apocalypse Gallery Martin’s depiction of Eve in a posture of grief comments on our own lived experiences of climate grief and eco-anxiety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752763562525-853S8VC5TLVYL3YA8ZJS/IMG_6018.jpg Apocalypse Gallery Visitors to the exhibit view the materials integral to Martin’s process, learning more about how she incorporates ideas and imagery from our rare books into her art. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/foraged-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761113174-VXSVDZNSPDF60IJNNF1M/Bradley+%281731%29+2.jpg Foraged Gallery Bradley (1731) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761113174-VXSVDZNSPDF60IJNNF1M/Bradley+%281731%29+2.jpg Foraged Gallery Bradley (1731) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761114453-HB05H665NWWNCV1YRFGU/Agricolia+%281726%29.jpg Foraged Gallery Agricola (1726) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761113211-ZWM4MQAMM6RVQYZ7YN8Z/Bradley+%281731%29+1.jpg Foraged Gallery Bradley (1731) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761157754-UAATT0EOGVOIDPL4UYTP/Lonicer+%281564%29.jpg Foraged Gallery Lonicer (1564) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762297544-KD63PFJWVWWC8W9IT56J/IMG_5766.jpeg Foraged Gallery Gerard (1633) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762297437-604BUG7PY3X37ENK893J/IMG_5764.jpeg Foraged Gallery Gerard (1633) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762299588-7XZDWI9A5MC5GMUH9G5S/IMG_5763.jpeg Foraged Gallery Gerard (1633) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762299515-ZWUB530KR38GDBZ7WN8J/IMG_5765.jpeg Foraged Gallery Gerard (1633) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762301396-E4V8GSM4OHKQSYF9FW8P/IMG_5768.jpeg Foraged Gallery Gerard (1633) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762476976-2XHN8Z7KXDPJ7SY4XAAE/IMG_5799.jpeg Foraged Gallery Guests to Madge’s exhibit learn about her cyanotype and mushroom spore printing process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752762483068-9U4FX0C91WG81XQ7DUKE/IMG_5804.jpeg Foraged Gallery Artist Madge Evers talks with visitors about the details of one of her mushroom spore prints featured in Forage: Kitchen Garden Herbaria. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elusive-prize-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864248504-EQS0X2O8Q1CR2OQYGW9F/17th+century+music+ink+damage.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Music with ink damage (c. 17th century) Iron gall ink can be quite acidic in nature and over time it can corrode and leave holes in paper like this piece of 17th century music. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864248504-EQS0X2O8Q1CR2OQYGW9F/17th+century+music+ink+damage.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Music with ink damage (c. 17th century) Iron gall ink can be quite acidic in nature and over time it can corrode and leave holes in paper like this piece of 17th century music. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864255803-VNMMDU1TZYKV64UMS24U/Bodin+%281594%29+and+Giovio+%281558%29.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Jean Bodin, De republica (1594) Paolo Giovio, La prima parte dell'historie del svo tempo (1558) Vellum (calfskin, treated and scraped but not tanned) was often used in book binding and sometimes for printing. Here, we see that the vellum binding has curled over time, revealing manuscript material used in the binding. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864276577-09FHNHMWOCNU1TFXF0TF/Land+Grant+1629.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Land Grant (1629) Vellum was used for legal documents, as seen here, in addition to book binding as in the previous image. Note the creases from the original fold of the document visible here. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692483132-6565HD2D3LRJU57VSQ3R/BG+in+action.JPG Elusive Prize Gallery Artist Brandon Graving highlight this original work printed on vellum using iron gall ink during her artist’s talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692468115-AR312GWHPCNJB37RYHWV/IMG_0560.JPG Elusive Prize Gallery Visitors to the Elusive Prize exhibit discuss Brandon’s original works with Liz Fox, Arts & Academic Coordinator at the Kinney Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864251372-GUKXJNU7P53KCIJ2TEE2/Antiphonal+17th+century.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Antiphonal (c. 17th Century) This Italian antiphonal is meant to be viewed by the entire choir and is a good example of manuscript on parchment. Parchment, like vellum, is animal skin that has been cleaned, dehaired, stretched, and dried to create a durable, surface for writing. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864263439-ZNQDKNZ0QAKX8DNJHL1X/French+Book+of+Hours+ca.+1375.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery French Book of Hours (c. 1375) This single leaf from the Book of Psalms is written in Latin. The writing and decoration were done entirely by hand. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864280353-QYVGNDFQRLX61SDX43E2/Nisseno+%281636%29.jpg Elusive Prize Gallery Diego Nisseno, Quaresimale del Nisseno (1636) It was common practice to bind books with leftover paper from other projects. This cover of this text is composed of two different manuscripts: one with portions of Tobias 6; the other from a missal. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692483209-Z0665QL1KKE7SMELKBEB/IMG_0512.JPG Elusive Prize Gallery Artist Brandon Graving gives an artist’s talk to an engaged audience at the opening reception for the exhibit. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/coral-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112733063-CG5IDXV4R1FRU8F3MNRJ/Ovid+%281632%29+1.jpg Coral Gallery Ovid, Metamorphosis (1632). This upper portion of this image from Metamorphosis shows Perseus slaying the Gorgon, Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. We also see his battle with the sea monster, Cetus. After the battle Perseus washes the head of Medusa in the ocean, her blood transforms the leaves and twigs under the water into a different substance, coral. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112733063-CG5IDXV4R1FRU8F3MNRJ/Ovid+%281632%29+1.jpg Coral Gallery Ovid, Metamorphosis (1632). This upper portion of this image from Metamorphosis shows Perseus slaying the Gorgon, Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. We also see his battle with the sea monster, Cetus. After the battle Perseus washes the head of Medusa in the ocean, her blood transforms the leaves and twigs under the water into a different substance, coral. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752760195883-W0XERFM3SRO73JIBOMLT/coral.jpg Coral Gallery John Gerard, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1633) While underwater coral is soft and pliant, when it is exposed to air it hardens. In his Herball, Gerard describes coral as capable of being hard as stones, yet its nature makes it more fit to be categorized among the mosses. Coral defies tidy categorization and taxonomy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752760195885-44A9Y9QSW9A8Z86858F8/coral+2.jpg Coral Gallery John Gerard, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1633) Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112733039-PLEOO6R5QS07PO04997K/Lonicer+%281564%29+1.jpg Coral Gallery Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1584) Although “Kreuterbuch” translates to “herb book” in English, Lonicer’s text contains much more. This page, for example, documents a variety of sea creatures. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112734223-ZV7CHYY74DVV6N44CDJJ/Ariosto+%281609%29.jpg Coral Gallery Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1609) Perseus and Cetus is not the only instance in literature of a hero battling a seemingly unstoppable sea monster. In this Italian epic poem the knight Orlando fights against a creature known as an "orc". Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112734319-30ICKXNK5VFO9YO1E9Y6/Hygnis+%281644%29.jpg Coral Gallery Julius Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica (1578) The subjects of Greek and Roman mythology are often placed among the stars and appear as constellations, including Cetus, and as we see here, Perseus. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/earthly-extractions-gallery daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112772491-S5QVEYGKAQ17YMYWMQR6/Lonicer+%281564%29+2.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1564) Although not primarily a mining text, Lonicer’s Kreuterbuch (herb book) contains passages on earth-derived minerals like ores and gems. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112772491-S5QVEYGKAQ17YMYWMQR6/Lonicer+%281564%29+2.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1564) Although not primarily a mining text, Lonicer’s Kreuterbuch (herb book) contains passages on earth-derived minerals like ores and gems. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112767651-0F1DO825JV37PEP1SHSX/Ralegh+%281674%29.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Walter Raleigh, The History of the World (1674) Raleigh draws analogies between human anatomy and earthly elements, including flesh as earth and dust, bones as rock and stone. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112771398-776Z9SF8RE2MU6SPR0W3/Ovid+%281632%29+2.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Ovid, Metamorphoses (1586) In Book Ten of the Metamorphoses, Orpheus descends into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice after she dies from a snakebite on their wedding day. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112770166-ITHRNC5UGQNN52GU6VBS/Munster+%281628%29.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Sebastian Munster, Cosmographia (1628) This example of a cosmography (description of the world) features a woodcut of the Stromboli volcano in Italy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760028213231-342HQN6MUYD5U4ZP1GT2/Dante+%281564%29+3.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Dante Alighieri, Inferno (1564) Book Three of Dante’s Inferno features the gates to hell with the famous inscription, “Abandon hope all ye who enter”. In this image, we see the gates in the top right corner near the earth’s surface opening onto a spiraled descent to the river Styx. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112772772-LY6UGVWYDV2UMGIGCIFZ/Heylyn+%281670%291.jpg Earthly Extractions Gallery Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie (1670) This map of the Americas features some striking visual elements in land and sea including an uneven density of place names around the continents as well as ships and serpents occupying the oceans. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book library. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/grafting-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112825281-1H8CIE1K4G92FJOGSD2W/Lawson+%281648%29+4.jpg Grafting Gallery William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their estate. On this page, he advises the orchardist on how to best shape their fruit trees. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112823961-104I1RXG9CK3F2ZT2K9Z/Copy+of+Ovid+%281632%29+1.jpg Grafting Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112825281-1H8CIE1K4G92FJOGSD2W/Lawson+%281648%29+4.jpg Grafting Gallery William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their estate. On this page, he advises the orchardist on how to best shape their fruit trees. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753461613422-OHD3V6GRKZ7OFERUSYKY/IMG_4258.jpeg Grafting Gallery Local orchardist, Matt Kaminsky, leads UMass students in a pruning workshop to prepare the Center’s orchard for spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112827440-MZEGAGC5QZ9YUXB93LYX/Lawson+%281648%29+3.jpg Grafting Gallery William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) Here, Lawson describes the process for grafting, a practice essential to any aspiring fruit grower. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112824022-UOWOO3DNUNH3F38E8V3J/Agricola+%281726%29+2.jpg Grafting Gallery Georg Andreas Agricola, The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener (1726) This book describes innovative horticultural techniques including grafting, cultivation, and other practices. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753461615096-APANNYHGFQA0XYCEQYBX/IMG_4264.jpeg Grafting Gallery Students work in the Kinney Center’s orchard in early spring to learn the art of pruning and shaping fruit trees for health and growth. Many of the same techniques from Agricola and Lawson are employed today. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-water-gallery daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341201308-60XJSSPUJ32AMPAZZWPW/Geneva+flood.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Geneva Bible (1594) In the book of Genesis’ account, the universal flood symbolizes a catastrophic disruption of Earth's ecological balance, where water floods the land, wiping out all life forms, except for Noah, his family, and the animals preserved in the ark to repopulate and restore the natural world. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341201308-60XJSSPUJ32AMPAZZWPW/Geneva+flood.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Geneva Bible (1594) In the book of Genesis’ account, the universal flood symbolizes a catastrophic disruption of Earth's ecological balance, where water floods the land, wiping out all life forms, except for Noah, his family, and the animals preserved in the ark to repopulate and restore the natural world. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341346960-HGK8EYQBP49G1WFICG80/Copy+of+22110_071.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) Burnet posits that the Earth's original, pristine state was a watery paradise, and that a great flood, driven by the rupture of the Earth's waters, reshaped the planet's surface and led to the current geological and environmental order. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340883030-7A1HG8TIAL1BIAMFHCFD/IMG_0771.JPG Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605) According to Verstegan, the Tower of Babel—shown on this title page—was not an act of disobedience, but a practical engineering effort by humans to live sustainably in a world vulnerable to flooding. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340996766-IY2U0T026WDVL8UM08T1/Copy+of+22110_018.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery John Worlidge, Systema Agricultura (1681) In Systema Agricultura, John Worlidge highlights the importance of irrigation as a key agricultural practice for improving crop yields and managing water resources effectively. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340946396-ANPTHAII7IE6JYOC547X/Lonicer+%281564%29+1.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1564) The Kreuterbuch (which translates to herb book) includes detailed illustrations not only of plants but also of animals, reflecting the interconnectedness of flora and fauna in early modern natural history. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341211684-N4GWPYESMF9GX6XIYACK/IMG_8176.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Second Folio, 1632) The Tempest’s mysterious island setting operates as a symbol for isolation, transformation, exile, and desolation as water defends and contains island inhabitants. On loan to the Kinney Center by a generous friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341300657-Q2Y7KWVRCBSTCMIHEBIW/IMG_3600.JPG Elemental Thinking: Water Gallery Ovid, Metamorphosis (1586) In Book Four, Ovid describes Cetus as a monstrous sea creature akin to a whale, emphasizing its vast, uncontrollable power as both a force of nature and a test for Perseus’ heroism. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-earth-gallery daily 0.75 2025-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553168839-XZU05QJ2KM79TB5B0KAE/Evelyn+%281679%29+1.jpg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees (1679) In its original context this text was a report to the British Navy that advocated for reforestation given the excessive felling of trees to build ships for war and exploration. However, it also contains details information on tree species and their uses, such as this image depicting how one might gather sap from birch trees. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553168839-XZU05QJ2KM79TB5B0KAE/Evelyn+%281679%29+1.jpg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees (1679) In its original context this text was a report to the British Navy that advocated for reforestation given the excessive felling of trees to build ships for war and exploration. However, it also contains details information on tree species and their uses, such as this image depicting how one might gather sap from birch trees. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553193422-W9UUZRKTDQO9DDFEVVLC/IMG_0140.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum (1685) Given the similarities of their titles, you might expect that this text, like Evelyn’s also focuses on trees. However, here the “forest of forests” becomes metaphor for a collection of Bacon’s experiments and observations of natural history, including metallurgy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553148513-1I52O3N866IO95FRKU1B/IMG_0138.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery John Ray, A Collection of English Words (1674) This catalog of English words also contains catalogs of bird and fish species alongside instructions on refining various metals. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553218663-2ICJO5HKWCBZYUOB2M14/IMG_0143.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1650) Browne aims to disprove and discredit commonly held superstitions in this text. For example, he refutes the belief that mandrake roots shriek when pulled from the ground or frequently grow under gallows. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553239270-M5TNYVXMV52OBN4OTE81/IMG_0142.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Gallery John Gerard, The Herball or General History of Plants (1633) The woodcut images of plants in Gerard’s Herbal also contain depictions of the root system. But in this example of the mandrake, notice the emphasis on the root over the leaves in comparison to the henbane. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-air-gallery daily 0.75 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762789325858-JJEE65G1PXXNSCD21L53/Copy+of+22110_141.jpg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery Walter Blith, The English Improver Improved (1653) This manual, like other land management manuals, guides the reader’s practical engagements with the land by drawing on Blith’s own experience as farmer and surveyor. Exploring how a farmer might harness natural energies, he includes an impressive fold-out engraving of a windmill. Held in the Kinney Center’s Rare Book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762789325858-JJEE65G1PXXNSCD21L53/Copy+of+22110_141.jpg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery Walter Blith, The English Improver Improved (1653) This manual, like other land management manuals, guides the reader’s practical engagements with the land by drawing on Blith’s own experience as farmer and surveyor. Exploring how a farmer might harness natural energies, he includes an impressive fold-out engraving of a windmill. Held in the Kinney Center’s Rare Book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788572049-HJNE3R0OFBIQ5JPIAQHV/IMG_0317.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery Richard Bradley, New Improvements of Planting and Gardening (1731) Bradley viewed blights as manifestations of environmental imbalance—often spread through “corrupted air” or excess moisture. He treated blight as both a natural and moral warning, urging careful management of air, soil, and season to preserve crop health. For Bradley, understanding blights meant reading the invisible influences of the atmosphere. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788575203-WG08FN2POYUXLHSOA2ZH/IMG_0321.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery Ovid, Metamorphosis (1586) In Book 8 of Metamorphosis, Daedalus crafts wings of feathers and wax so he and his son, Icarus, can escape Crete. He teaches Icarus to fly through the middle air: not too low, where the sea’s dampness would weigh him down, nor too high, where the sun’s heat would melt the wax. Air, in this tale, becomes the realm of human aspiration and Icarus’ fall shows that the air, though liberating, is also perilous when pride overtakes wisdom. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788572001-UVMI8I1IGNG3SQIXO31J/IMG_0316.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturæ (1676) As an agriculturalist, Worlidge treats wind as both a practical concern for farmers and a messenger of atmospheric change—its direction, strength, and quality foretelling rain, storms, or fair skies. In this text, wind is not just a natural force but a readable language that allowed farmers to prepare for upcoming weather events. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788573287-ULB2P673XDJCMPMJQ14U/IMG_0318.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Gallery Robert Boyle, Paradoxica Hydrostatica (1677) Using his air pump, shown here, Boyle demonstrated that air exerts pressure and that this pressure is essential for respiration, combustion, and the behavior of fluids. His discovery—later formalized as Boyle’s Law—transformed air from a mysterious element into a measurable physical force, marking a turning point in the scientific understanding of the atmosphere. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-fire-gallery daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155572679-R5ZPL2114CHUBJ4NPYNP/IMG_9820.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery John Donne, Devotions (1624) Reading by candlelight was a common practice, but was not without risks.One reader held the book too close to the flame and set the text on fire. On loan from the private collection of Joseph Black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155572679-R5ZPL2114CHUBJ4NPYNP/IMG_9820.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery John Donne, Devotions (1624) Reading by candlelight was a common practice, but was not without risks.One reader held the book too close to the flame and set the text on fire. On loan from the private collection of Joseph Black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155572896-K4PCFDOTCPWNO34JKZQM/22110_072.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) Just as he hypothesized that the earth was once covered in water, Burnet also asserted that the earth must endure a fiery conflagration that will allow it to return to its hollow, egg-like shape. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155832597-Q9R0IMI5XNQEOHS7F4V0/IMG_0342.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery Robert Boyle, New Experiments, touching the relation betwixt flame and air (1672) Boyle uses his air pump to better understand the relationship between these two elements, discovering, for example that fire needs air to burn. On loan from the Archives & Special Collections, Amherst College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155832595-Z0AX4SUYY47RFK306FJ0/IMG_0343.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1623) It was during a performance of Henry VII in 1613 that the cannon fire called for in Act One set the thatch roof of the Globe on fire. On loan from the Gillespie Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155677390-MJW13MIC1TXVXJ4Z0XHP/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+4.21.24%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Gallery John Swan, Speculum Mundi (1635) This text, like Burnet’s Sacred Theory, attempts to reconcile scientific and religious understandings of the world. He explores the world’s beginnings, its impending demise, and its natural phenomenon—including the various fires in the skies such as comets, meteors, and firedrakes. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/d3fb222a-9bca-40af-8e47-9d7260df8c3a/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-31.png Folger Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/ba9545b5-1131-470b-9be5-dd6108a0cccf/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-33.png Folger Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/sustainability-initiatives daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/fellowships daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/collaborators daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/b92d093f-8963-4955-a07f-c043405c4c0d/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-3.png Collaborators - Marjorie Rubright Founding Director, Renaissance of the Earth Director, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Associate Professor, English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1ad2c420-d19c-4506-b929-eb948cf4c89c/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-4.png Collaborators - Liz Fox Arts & Academic Programs Coordinator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1e707022-2abf-4df3-93cc-9662722f2791/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-41.png Collaborators - Jade Alicandro Mace Founder, Milk & Honey Herbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/35d2a931-7eb5-466d-aa67-6d873c975362/RoE+Site+Hexagon-14.png Collaborators - Lauren Levato Coyne Artist in Residence, Fall 2026 Longing for Strangeness: Gardens, Monsters, & Other Third Nature Fables https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/09f8e39f-455b-402b-bc58-f777154177d1/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-37.png Collaborators - madge evers Artist in Residence, Fall 2022 Foraged: Kitchen Garden Herbaria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/6ed6fd85-9ae3-4946-9211-9adbc6fb0ab0/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-2.png Collaborators - Brandon Graving Artist in Residence, Spring 2024 Elusive Prize: Wonder, Wing, & Transmutation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/4d17ddd8-05cb-48ff-ac04-924e976ebd51/RoE+Site+Hexagon-12.png Collaborators - Ira Klein Artist in Residence, Spring 2026 What Do Stars Sound Like? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/c7323a0d-8c02-4bc9-8b68-67c4c80e9bf1/Copy+of+Untitled+Design.png Collaborators - Susan Montgomery Artist in Residence, Fall 2024 Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/5988156a-1bcc-4e14-bce2-a160f6b349ec/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-43.png Collaborators - Haylie Swenson Writer & Educator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/4fb8a964-b0b9-49e9-955d-f2364e824173/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-36.png Collaborators - Andrea Caluori Artist in Residence, Spring 2022 Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/df07994e-83bf-473e-b396-507fb08a1f8e/RoE+Site+Hexagon-15.png Collaborators - Missy Dunaway Artist in Residence, Summer 2026 Winged Witnesses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/f59b1234-a35d-478b-ae85-9df4f92c397d/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-56.png Collaborators - The Futuring Lab Architecture, College of Humanities & Fine Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1ab0a910-0f1d-46a2-b6d2-4e791b9c16a9/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-39.png Collaborators - Matt Kaminsky Orchardist, Gnarly Pippins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/e8d4b337-99db-4e0b-b78d-5a1b1335be70/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-42.png Collaborators - Suzette Marie Martin Artist in Residence, Spring 2023 Apocalypse: Science & Myth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/9aa88b3b-a525-4642-bfad-1a2fc7b2e432/Copy+of+Untitled+Design.png Collaborators - FElicity Sheehy Artist in Residence, Spring 2025 Seasonal Distortions: An Almanac for the Anthropocene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/eaa4ba36-43db-4b1f-af98-20bb99f05dba/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-5.png Collaborators - Bo Kim Renaissance of the Earth Fellow Studio Art (MFA Candidate) College of Humanities & Fine Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/588598c5-94c4-4e11-94ea-a31420fd7fe4/RoE+Site+Hexagon-11.png Collaborators - Kiran Jandu Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellow Studio Art (MFA Candidate) Workshop: “Wild Clay” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/67148026-1a11-439c-ad93-5677fde0bde2/RoE+Site+Hexagon-9.png Collaborators - Aliza Fassler Renaissance of the Earth Fellow Environmental Conservation (PhD, Candidate) College of Natural Sciences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/5ca72348-66a4-4adc-a626-b5872651effb/RoE+Site+Hexagon-10.png Collaborators - Michael Medeiros Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellow Studio Art (MFA Candidate) Workshop: “Wild Clay” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/67fbc616-97a4-4abc-aa8c-efa3a6cfe0a4/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-3.png Collaborators - Hannah Gould Renaissance of the Earth Fellow English & Applied Plant and Soil Science College of Humanities & Fine Arts Stockbridge School of Agriculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a13903d4-6c94-40ce-a11e-d35254a1ab90/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-3.png Collaborators - Melanie Morgan Renaissance of the Earth Fellow Horticulture & Sustainable Food and Farming Stockbridge School of Agriculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/c00ba61c-d42a-4e26-b4da-679cd98dc998/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-44.png Collaborators - Emma Zimmerman Greenlee Renaissance of the Earth Fellow Forest Resources & Arboriculture (MA) College of Natural Sciences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/fa1b5447-0191-42a4-939c-49a9445f7c8f/Copy+of+Untitled+Design.png Collaborators - Scout Turkel Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellow Poet & Educator Courses: “Writing on Earth” & “Renaissance of the Earth in Verse” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1cd93f01-a8ed-4351-b3db-704049832682/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-45.png Collaborators - Fiona Maclaughlin Renaissance of the Earth Fellow English & Natural Resource Conservation College of Humanities & Fine Arts School of Earth & Sustainability https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/f29ec966-f39d-4115-be39-684e9f109b81/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-3.png Collaborators - Marie Comuzzo PhD Candidate, Brandeis University 2025 Kinney Center Visiting Scholar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/b4bd6577-d5c5-480f-8d40-ae60b8ee2fb6/RoE+Site+Hexagon-17.png Collaborators - Katharine Owens Professor, Politics, Economics, & International Studies University of Hartford Fall 2025 Kinney Center Visiting Scholar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/d6334a98-9025-4205-b7b5-e721b0291376/RoE+Site+Hexagon-16.png Collaborators - Cecilia Lim UMass, Class of ’99 Fall 2025 Kinney Center Visiting Scholar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/7aa3f016-1204-433d-a2c6-c1506b82ee96/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-45.png Collaborators - Dan Bensonoff Sustainability Coordinator, Campus Gardens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a6182ebb-3ee5-4544-bcae-4f414d901877/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-52.png Collaborators - Robert Deconto Provost Professor, Earth, Geographic, & Climate Sciences Director, School of Earth & Sustainability https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/f22ac882-e7f8-4b26-89ac-8014d6ab879f/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-40.png Collaborators - Lena Fletcher Senior Lecturer & Chief Undergraduate Advisor, Natural Resource Conservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/05907971-7b74-4451-8e20-e850229a1fbe/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-5.png Collaborators - Evan MacCarthy Director, Elements Five College Visiting Associate Professor, Music History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a31743df-ac38-4ba8-8da8-e59780e5f1d6/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-53.png Collaborators - Thaddeus miller Associate Professor, Public Policy Director of Graduate Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/bd088a9a-7246-4887-a604-a83c09b042ea/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-49.png Collaborators - Elsa Petit Senior Lecturer, Viticulture & Plant Pathology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/5731492b-f4c5-4649-b4d8-81575518857b/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-55.png Collaborators - Regine Spector Associate Professor, Political Science Director, Russian, Eurasian, & Polish Studies Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/6d7b442b-18ba-4d2b-a5c9-2b3228a75623/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-3+copy.png Collaborators - Brian Yellen Massachusetts State Geologist Research Assistant Professor, Earth, Geographic, & Climate Sciences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/d8a6bf01-1d6c-4d4d-bbcc-d724fbaaa7fd/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-46.png Collaborators - Britt Crow-Miller Graduate Program Director, Sustainability Science & Regional Planning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/bf7c1bfd-af88-4e9d-8885-ad2233b735a9/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-39.png Collaborators - Lisa Depiano Lecturer, Sustainable Agriculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/ec5b2729-b6f7-4b9d-b0a7-6c7fd5a9ae6a/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-51.png Collaborators - Sandy Litchfield Associate Professor, Architecture Founder, On Distant Keys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/00349941-72fb-431a-a7b4-b69e7ff2bd99/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-4.png Collaborators - Edie Meidav Provost Professor, English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/49b88b77-14e1-4a63-b4e9-b98aa637c86e/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-48.png Collaborators - Marissa Nicosia Founder, Cooking in the Archives Associate Professor, English Penn State Abington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/e76b739e-5e15-4151-a512-4dc9ca9f0a68/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-54.png Collaborators - Malcolm Sen Associate Professor, English Director, Environmental Humanities Specialization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/921bc221-ef44-495f-ba25-51c7dfa6ecee/Copy+of+Untitled+Design-50.png Collaborators - Meg Vickery Lecturer & Undergraduate Program Director, History of Art & Architecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/28385c37-533c-46a7-8d11-aa65dd7a267c/sheep.png Collaborators - Sheep We graze the land as part of Sustainable Ewe Mass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/43b3458b-2881-4484-abc8-6f71596b7b10/deer.png Collaborators - DeeR & Fawn We play a crucial role in maintaining the health and diversity of the Center’s ecosystems … and occasionally snack on apples in the orchard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/2826d461-d53b-4bbe-a639-961d7a44e8dd/Bird.png Collaborators - am I a Hawk or Falcon? As key players in the wildlife of the Center, we’re the hardest to catch on camera! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/3c329e6e-a54d-4ee3-beb9-0f24da1bcbd6/bees.png Collaborators - Bees We collaborate with the UMass Bee Keeping Club, who welcome us every year with new hives on the Center grounds so we can work hard at pollinating the apple blossom trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/066341c8-c8d6-4257-bf8b-ad5c885236aa/bunnies.png Collaborators - Bunnies We work all summer eating everything the Fellows plant in the garden — we also build our forms in the garden, because it is a safe place for our baby “kits” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/a6e3c11d-f6be-4fbc-8956-d6951132a697/nematode.png Collaborators - Nematodes I’m part of a lively microscopic world of creatures roaming beneath your feet. The lives of wriggly nematodes help to balance the soil in all kinds of ways. 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Bo Kim is a third-year MFA candidate in Studio Art whose research explores the intersection of ecological memory, participatory art, and Korean diasporic practices. Her work integrates archival inquiry, traditional materials, and environmental pedagogy to address climate grief and collective repair. As a Renaissance of the Earth Fellow, Bo will examine early modern texts focusing on cultivation tools and land management practices to explore transhistorical agrarian knowledge and sustainability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/5068f732-dbe7-46df-b307-28220bbe8a36/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.22.28%E2%80%AFAM.png 2025 Fellows - Meet Aliza Fassler! Aliza Fassler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Conservation, where she studies wild bees in forests. She also serves as co-chair of the UMass Bee Campus USA Committee, working to enhance pollinator habitats on campus and engage the UMass community in pollinator education and stewardship. As a Renaissance of the Earth Fellow, Aliza will document pollinators at the Kinney Center and explore connections between the entomological techniques she uses today and early modern methods of observing the natural world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/0b746bda-bf44-49b3-9656-a7c218002737/Screenshot+2025-10-06+at+11.05.58%E2%80%AFAM.png 2025 Fellows - Meet Kiran Jandu! Kiran Jandu is an art practitioner and academic working in experimental film, interactive performance, and site-based installation. Utilizing an archival research praxis, Kiran’s work addresses themes of intersectionality, mindfulness, and ecology. As a Renaissance of the Earth Teaching fellow, Kiran is co-organizing a workshop Grounded Knowledge: Wild Clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/5221af7c-4089-4542-a610-7e452f2e5b10/Screenshot+2025-10-06+at+11.06.06%E2%80%AFAM.png 2025 Fellows - Meet Michael Medeiros Michael Medeiros works at the intersection of words and artistic imagery, with a deep questioning of perceptive and conceptual experience driving his practice. Primarily a poet and ceramist, he also connects photography, printmaking, fiction and narrative non-fiction into community public art collaborations. As a Renaissance of the Earth Teaching fellow, Michael is co-organizing a workshop Grounded Knowledge: Wild Clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/ea422dd1-3309-4e4b-b4e0-c1b97f22c3c6/EB_ChestnutTree.jpg 2025 Fellows - Meet Ellena Baum Ellena Baum is a MS student in Sustainability Science, with a background in small-scale regenerative farming and hands-on nature education for youth and adults of all ages. Her work focuses on hybrid chestnut trees and other staple perennial nut and fruit crops in the Connecticut River Valley. As a Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellow, she will offer a workshop in Fall 2026 that explores how early moderns cultivated, tended, and imagined chestnut trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/bb6a2abd-539b-4335-9f8d-cfb3c6d91242/Gould_Headshot.jpg 2025 Fellows - Congratulations, Hannah! Renaissance of the Earth Fellow, Hannah Gould, won the 2025 Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award in recognition of her outstanding research and public humanities projects at the Kinney Center and contributions to the UMass community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/d33939f3-4aed-4c74-bdb0-9045fcec0faf/Scout+Bio+Pic.jpg 2025 Fellows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/75500a0c-07bc-4029-b55c-b6bf7d6b0892/Hannah+Garden.jpg 2025 Fellows - Hannah Gould Hannah Gould English & Applied Plant and Soil Science School of Humanities & Fine Arts Stockbridge School of Agriculture Hannah’s research includes public-facing materials that educate visitors to Kinney Center’s 28 acre grounds about the ecological histories and modern crises that face some of the plants and trees that grow there. Hannah is the recent recipient of the Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award for her project Community Classroom of Hope and she is currently serving as the Undersecretary of Sustainability in the Student Government Association for UMass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/adac8c8c-d95f-4070-b327-ebfe0675711a/IMG_6124.jpg 2025 Fellows - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/related-projects daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/14fd2c85-d7db-45f6-aead-f3b0b31629c9/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.57.23%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Related Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/c88c37bb-9bac-4fd2-b94c-fdb4293b1473/Screenshot+2025-03-13+at+11.43.42%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Related Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/312f5d53-8a67-4a35-b86e-501fe795a8dc/Screenshot+2025-03-13+at+12.06.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Related Projects https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/collaborators-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-14 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/news daily 0.75 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/2cae5a7f-823d-4b04-bbe3-1e1df8a206fe/Screen+Shot+2025-04-01+at+7.36.53+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/d3abe0ed-1a6f-40c1-8426-f89f57cdc283/Gould_Headshot.jpg News - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/upcoming-artists-in-residence daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/21acb470-e2a0-412d-8bba-7680d2944a2e/Ira+Klein_Headshot.jpg 2025-2026 Artists in Residence - Ira Klein Ira Klein is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and educator. During his Spring 2026 Residency, he will explore the question “What Do Stars Sound Like?” by pairing Renaissance-era musical motifs through a modern lens, composing new works that reflect historical echoes in contemporary sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/8cbd83e8-8e73-48cd-b2c9-7cf65db2e5db/Artist+Portrait.jpg 2025-2026 Artists in Residence - Missy Dunaway Missy Dunaway is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, ME. In Summer 2026, she will explore the folklore and mythologies surrounding birds in the early modern period to draw new connections between the Renaissance imagination and modern ecological concerns about the winged creatures who bear witness to our changing planet. Attend Missy’s Gallery Talk at the Folger Shakespeare Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/b4a89339-4ecf-4abb-8a79-3ad319cf618d/LLCoyne-May2025.jpg 2025-2026 Artists in Residence - Lauren Levato Coyne Lauren Levato Coyne is a queer, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and STEAM educator who explores the intersections of natural history, myth, and identity. At the Kinney Center, they will conduct new research for a project called “Longing for Strangeness: Gardens, Monsters, and Other Third Nature Fables,” a multidisciplinary exploration of Renaissance and post-human ecologies that speaks to how nature has been imagined, feared, and mythologized across time. Their exhibit will open in Fall 2026. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/archipelago daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/c7923c5d-8112-4e47-a142-0af66f2a7d8f/azores+map.png Archipelago - Make it stand out View of the Archipelago of the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/9403376c-fa83-4ec2-9cbc-1504e8f1793f/2026+info+session+-+March+-+Azores.jpg Archipelago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/0c553005-cf5c-4e69-9534-5faa19432d65/sustainability%2C+listening+to+the+stories+of+a+place.jpg Archipelago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/4649a4cd-0f92-4a99-a90a-777757013fe3/2sustainability%2C+listening+to+the+stories+of+a+place.jpg Archipelago - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/earthly-extractions daily 0.75 2025-06-24 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/seasonal-distortions daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/join-us daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/fatal-flora-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727801049097-961S68HN6VAXQFKDOHHN/Lawson.png Fatal Flora Rare Book William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their kitchen garden and, in doing so, makes the distinction between women's "common" knowledge and men's "expert" knowledge. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727801047544-3MX56X2SSSPNKVH7YA8I/image00020.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book Datura stramonium, also called "Thornapple" for its spiky seedpods or "Devil's Trumpet" for the bell shape of its blossom. Medicinally, thornapple can reduce inflammation, however, it is highly poisonous and can cause delirium, psychosis, and even death. This specimen is held in the UMass Herbarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727804968289-NO125OXD7N9YN69BQ7DD/Herbal.png Fatal Flora Rare Book John Gerard, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1633) Open to the entry for Devil’s Trumpet, this example invites visitors to consider the medicinal properties of this deadly plant--for example, when boiled with lard it is an effective anti-inflammatory. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752688620527-01JKA1AJKHCKLTTVAIG1/IMG_0752.JPG Fatal Flora Rare Book Original artworks are displayed alongside the books that inspired them in the reading room. Visitors to the exhibit opening for Fatal Flora meet artist Susan Montgomery and learn more about her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727803688714-N5JAPGSRMCQW0J2CNCOO/img_9589.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book John Reynolds, The Triumphs of God’s Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther (1679) This chronicle contains several "histories" detailing a variety of murders, several of which involved poisons--particularly women poisoning their husbands with plants. Held in the Kinney Center rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1727803750532-BI19K6NUEB6TPS5942R6/image00018.jpg Fatal Flora Rare Book Aconitum napellus, also known as "wolfsbane" or "queen of poisons" While sometimes used as a sedative or fever reducer, a very small dose of wolfsbane can cause respiratory paralysis and heart failure. This specimen is held in the UMass Herbarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752688637308-K4RJRGE03N5ZKA7TJCXL/IMG_0763.JPG Fatal Flora Rare Book Students attending the opening of Fatal Flora engage with a variety of rare material available in the Center’s collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/apocalypse-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752783247346-R99MCBCDOVAJ1JJJHV8B/22110_071.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) The frontispiece of this text depicts a geological history of the earth that include the flood, followed by the formation of continents as the waters receded. Burnet also speculates that the earth will undergo a fiery conflagration before it returns to an Edenic state. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692859162-N2GOWG135ZG7F7I2JI7V/IMG_2864.jpeg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Visitors to the exhibit opening gained hands-on experience using the Kinney Center’s 20th Century acorn press to print an excerpt from Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761755334-0FIBUJGI2CV7PPNX5CPZ/Boulenger+%281688%29+2.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Jean Boulenger, Traite' de la sphere du monde (1688) This text by a French mathematician investigates the rotation and movement of the Earth and other planets. This diagram explains the revolutions of the planets around the sun. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761753633-CNKXFD22GE1FV4TDMD22/Heywood+%281635%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Thomas Heywood, Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels (1635) Heywood's poetical inventory of angels including their names, orders, and offices. Depicted in this copperplate engraving, we see the fall of Lucifer and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692859071-AW7NB39F0FDEYWNN0RBD/IMG_2832.jpeg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Suzette Marie Martin, Cherubim of the Flaming Sword (2023) This original work combines language and text from the IPCC Report (2021), Vulgate Bible (1495), Hierarchie of Blessed Angels (1634), and Traité de la Sphère du Monde (1688). Together these materials offer viewers an allegory of consequences for industrialized humanity’s cumulative, destructive behaviors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692549659-ZUATRKO7VJ8E2JB8VSCQ/Suzette+Reception+1.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Students and members of the Amherst community listen intently as artist Suzette Marie Martin discusses her process, interspersing images and text from current IPPC reports with images from early modern earth science and geological studies and the Vulgate Bible (1495). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761752532-WEPWU4W3NEZIRB9OF5CS/Vulgate+Bible+%281495%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Vulgate Bible (1495) This page is from the Book of Genesis. The two central columns are the text of the Bible, while the outer columns are commentary by Nicholas of Lyra (ca. 1270–1349). Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692904076-LKFAQOIQUFKD4ZC3N2UA/IMG_6127.jpeg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Marjorie Rubright, Kinney Center Director, welcomes guests to the opening of Apocalypse: Science & Myth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761752420-2AFY05C4JXGQ04UXMFLY/Woodward+%281695%29.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit John Woodward, An Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth (1695) Woodward wrote about the effects of the Biblical Deluge with a particular interest in geology and the formation of minerals. Like many writers of his time, he looked for scientific evidence of the creation of the world. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752761755218-Q1B0QQFAYX217UO1CYFE/Boyle+%281677%29+1.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Robert Boyle, Paradoxica Hydrostatica Novis Experimentis (1677) Although this illustration of Boyle's air pump first appeared in his New Experiments Physico-Mechanical (1660), the Center's copy of his Paradoxa hydrostatica (1677) also contains this image. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752770966418-V4YUD4E9IPHB10S7AE3M/Screenshot+2025-07-17+at+12.49.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Suzette Marie Martin, Hydrostatica Paradoxica (2023). The air pump was used in experiments for some of Boyle’s most famous scientific contributions: that vacuums can exist in nature and that the pressure of air is in inverse proportion to its volume (Boyle’s Law). Juxtaposed with text from the Vulgate Bible and IPCC report, we are reminded that Boyle’s Law helps to explain how changes in pressure and volume affect the circulation of air pollution. Held in the Kinney Center’s permanent art collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692880393-QDL3QK26V6ZGV6YKJKNH/IMG_2935.jpeg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Martin’s depiction of Eve in a posture of grief comments on our own lived experiences of climate grief and eco-anxiety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752763562525-853S8VC5TLVYL3YA8ZJS/IMG_6018.jpg Apocalypse Rare Book Exhibit Visitors to the exhibit view the materials integral to Martin’s process, learning more about how she incorporates ideas and imagery from our rare books into her art. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/foraged-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/seasonal-distortions-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845491136-2J6IV98DSNIPU0JMX39T/Wharton+%281658%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) This text is an example of a 17th almanac, containing conventional information on meteorological phenomena, tidal activity, market dates, English history, and law terms. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845503457-GFN56GM1SAU2VZOKL6HD/Wharton+%281658%29+2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) Almanac owners often filled blank pages with writing, typically that associated with the activities of daily life. On this page we see an account of “Disease that was Amongst Horses in 1655.” Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845508187-4YRZZHRKBTQ636AXR9QX/Wharton+%281658%29+3.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit George Wharton, Calendarium Ecclesiasticum (1658) We also see annotated almanacs filled with notes of local travel, household accounts, and even medicinal or culinary recipes. This page includes a recipe for pickling mushrooms. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692172648-96NMPDFMN2G1K110ELA5/IMG_1392.JPG Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit Artist in Residence Felicity Sheehy reads from her original poetry, inspired by the Kinney Center’s collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845441630-SMH6Y1ZO6CVLGGDHGZVV/Browne+%281625%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit Daniel Browne, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (1625) Almanacs served as helpful guides for farmers and merchants, containing information on important dates of the year, market times, and lunar/tidal cycles. The early modern almanac was often published with a “prognostication,” which contains a list of major historical events, astrological predictions based on season and region, a husbandry guide, and chart for computing interest. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845445206-0OR2N7NYPMAEO2OOS3PG/Browne+%281625%29+2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit Daniel Browne, A New Almanacke and Prognostication (1625) The anonymous owner of the Center’s 1625 almanac has written notes in the book’s calendars, mostly referencing travel. In this example, we see this almanac’s owner visited “knottford faire” on June 7. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692054388-8NZQ4TDWRMNDIR7LY94L/IMG_1358.JPG Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit As part of her residency, Felicity created a hands-on works that invited students, scholars, and members of the public to practice her process—engaging in creative and scholarly practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845480148-LSV1JF03M6ONYS8IUF1Z/Evelyn+%281683%29+1.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit John Evelyn, Kalendarium Hortense (1683) This almanac, like many in the early modern period, guides the amateur gardener through each months of the year—laying out when to plant, when to harvest, and when to anticipate blossoms or fruit. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752845485789-1QGDQY05I1O61CKL1N21/Evelyn+%281683%29++2.jpg Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit John Evelyn, Kalendarium Hortense (1683) For the month of June, Evelyn directs his reader on how to best harvest, dry, and distill herbs. He also encourages them to begin pest management now, offering a variety of methods to “destroy insects.” Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692301661-XI5S6I53YIBK2F38B4YD/IMG_1374.JPG Seasonal Distortions Rare Book Exhibit Participants in Felicity’s workshop generated new poems as they engaged with rare texts and explored natural elements gathered from the Center’s landscape. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elusive-prize-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864248504-EQS0X2O8Q1CR2OQYGW9F/17th+century+music+ink+damage.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Music with ink damage (c. 17th century) Iron gall ink can be quite acidic in nature and over time it can corrode and leave holes in paper like this piece of 17th century music. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864255803-VNMMDU1TZYKV64UMS24U/Bodin+%281594%29+and+Giovio+%281558%29.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Jean Bodin, De republica (1594) Paolo Giovio, La prima parte dell'historie del svo tempo (1558) Vellum (calfskin, treated and scraped but not tanned) was often used in book binding and sometimes for printing. Here, we see that the vellum binding has curled over time, revealing manuscript material used in the binding. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864276577-09FHNHMWOCNU1TFXF0TF/Land+Grant+1629.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Land Grant (1629) Vellum was used for legal documents, as seen here, in addition to book binding as in the previous image. Note the creases from the original fold of the document visible here. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692483132-6565HD2D3LRJU57VSQ3R/BG+in+action.JPG Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Artist Brandon Graving highlight this original work printed on vellum using iron gall ink during her artist’s talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692468115-AR312GWHPCNJB37RYHWV/IMG_0560.JPG Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Visitors to the Elusive Prize exhibit discuss Brandon’s original works with Liz Fox, Arts & Academic Coordinator at the Kinney Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864251372-GUKXJNU7P53KCIJ2TEE2/Antiphonal+17th+century.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Antiphonal (c. 17th Century) This Italian antiphonal is meant to be viewed by the entire choir and is a good example of manuscript on parchment. Parchment, like vellum, is animal skin that has been cleaned, dehaired, stretched, and dried to create a durable, surface for writing. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864263439-ZNQDKNZ0QAKX8DNJHL1X/French+Book+of+Hours+ca.+1375.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit French Book of Hours (c. 1375) This single leaf from the Book of Psalms is written in Latin. The writing and decoration were done entirely by hand. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752864280353-QYVGNDFQRLX61SDX43E2/Nisseno+%281636%29.jpg Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Diego Nisseno, Quaresimale del Nisseno (1636) It was common practice to bind books with leftover paper from other projects. This cover of this text is composed of two different manuscripts: one with portions of Tobias 6; the other from a missal. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752692483209-Z0665QL1KKE7SMELKBEB/IMG_0512.JPG Elusive Prize Rare Book Exhibit Artist Brandon Graving gives an artist’s talk to an engaged audience at the opening reception for the exhibit. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/coral-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112733063-CG5IDXV4R1FRU8F3MNRJ/Ovid+%281632%29+1.jpg Coral Rare Book Exhibit Ovid, Metamorphosis (1632). This upper portion of this image from Metamorphosis shows Perseus slaying the Gorgon, Medusa, whose gaze turns people to stone. We also see his battle with the sea monster, Cetus. After the battle Perseus washes the head of Medusa in the ocean, her blood transforms the leaves and twigs under the water into a different substance, coral. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1752760195883-W0XERFM3SRO73JIBOMLT/coral.jpg Coral Rare Book Exhibit John Gerard, The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1633) While underwater coral is soft and pliant, when it is exposed to air it hardens. In his Herball, Gerard describes coral as capable of being hard as stones, yet its nature makes it more fit to be categorized among the mosses. Coral defies tidy categorization and taxonomy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112733039-PLEOO6R5QS07PO04997K/Lonicer+%281564%29+1.jpg Coral Rare Book Exhibit Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1584) Although “Kreuterbuch” translates to “herb book” in English, Lonicer’s text contains much more. This page, for example, documents a variety of sea creatures. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112734223-ZV7CHYY74DVV6N44CDJJ/Ariosto+%281609%29.jpg Coral Rare Book Exhibit Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1609) Perseus and Cetus is not the only instance in literature of a hero battling a seemingly unstoppable sea monster. In this Italian epic poem the knight Orlando fights against a creature known as an "orc". Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112734319-30ICKXNK5VFO9YO1E9Y6/Hygnis+%281644%29.jpg Coral Rare Book Exhibit Julius Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica (1578) The subjects of Greek and Roman mythology are often placed among the stars and appear as constellations, including Cetus, and as we see here, Perseus. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/grafting-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112825281-1H8CIE1K4G92FJOGSD2W/Lawson+%281648%29+4.jpg Grafting Rare Book Exhibit William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) This manual offers advice on how one might manage their estate. On this page, he advises the orchardist on how to best shape their fruit trees. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753461613422-OHD3V6GRKZ7OFERUSYKY/IMG_4258.jpeg Grafting Rare Book Exhibit Local orchardist, Matt Kaminsky, leads UMass students in a pruning workshop to prepare the Center’s orchard for spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112827440-MZEGAGC5QZ9YUXB93LYX/Lawson+%281648%29+3.jpg Grafting Rare Book Exhibit William Lawson, The Country Housewives Garden in A New Orchard and Garden (1648) Here, Lawson describes the process for grafting, a practice essential to any aspiring fruit grower. Held in the Kinney Center's rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112824022-UOWOO3DNUNH3F38E8V3J/Agricola+%281726%29+2.jpg Grafting Rare Book Exhibit Georg Andreas Agricola, The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener (1726) This book describes innovative horticultural techniques including grafting, cultivation, and other practices. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753461615096-APANNYHGFQA0XYCEQYBX/IMG_4264.jpeg Grafting Rare Book Exhibit Students work in the Kinney Center’s orchard in early spring to learn the art of pruning and shaping fruit trees for health and growth. Many of the same techniques from Agricola and Lawson are employed today. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-water-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341201308-60XJSSPUJ32AMPAZZWPW/Geneva+flood.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit Geneva Bible (1594) In the book of Genesis’ account, the universal flood symbolizes a catastrophic disruption of Earth's ecological balance, where water floods the land, wiping out all life forms, except for Noah, his family, and the animals preserved in the ark to repopulate and restore the natural world. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341346960-HGK8EYQBP49G1WFICG80/Copy+of+22110_071.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) Burnet posits that the Earth's original, pristine state was a watery paradise, and that a great flood, driven by the rupture of the Earth's waters, reshaped the planet's surface and led to the current geological and environmental order. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340883030-7A1HG8TIAL1BIAMFHCFD/IMG_0771.JPG Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605) According to Verstegan, the Tower of Babel—shown on this title page—was not an act of disobedience, but a practical engineering effort by humans to live sustainably in a world vulnerable to flooding. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340996766-IY2U0T026WDVL8UM08T1/Copy+of+22110_018.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit John Worlidge, Systema Agricultura (1681) In Systema Agricultura, John Worlidge highlights the importance of irrigation as a key agricultural practice for improving crop yields and managing water resources effectively. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757340946396-ANPTHAII7IE6JYOC547X/Lonicer+%281564%29+1.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1564) The Kreuterbuch (which translates to herb book) includes detailed illustrations not only of plants but also of animals, reflecting the interconnectedness of flora and fauna in early modern natural history. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341211684-N4GWPYESMF9GX6XIYACK/IMG_8176.jpg Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Second Folio, 1632) The Tempest’s mysterious island setting operates as a symbol for isolation, transformation, exile, and desolation as water defends and contains island inhabitants. On loan to the Kinney Center by a generous friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1757341300657-Q2Y7KWVRCBSTCMIHEBIW/IMG_3600.JPG Elemental Thinking: Water Exhibit Ovid, Metamorphosis (1586) In Book Four, Ovid describes Cetus as a monstrous sea creature akin to a whale, emphasizing its vast, uncontrollable power as both a force of nature and a test for Perseus’ heroism. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/earthly-extractions-rare-book-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112772491-S5QVEYGKAQ17YMYWMQR6/Lonicer+%281564%29+2.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (1564) Although not primarily a mining text, Lonicer’s Kreuterbuch (herb book) contains passages on earth-derived minerals like ores and gems. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112767651-0F1DO825JV37PEP1SHSX/Ralegh+%281674%29.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Walter Raleigh, The History of the World (1674) Raleigh draws analogies between human anatomy and earthly elements, including flesh as earth and dust, bones as rock and stone. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112771398-776Z9SF8RE2MU6SPR0W3/Ovid+%281632%29+2.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Ovid, Metamorphoses (1586) In Book Ten of the Metamorphoses, Orpheus descends into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice after she dies from a snakebite on their wedding day. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112770166-ITHRNC5UGQNN52GU6VBS/Munster+%281628%29.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Sebastian Munster, Cosmographia (1628) This example of a cosmography (description of the world) features a woodcut of the Stromboli volcano in Italy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760028213231-342HQN6MUYD5U4ZP1GT2/Dante+%281564%29+3.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Dante Alighieri, Inferno (1564) Book Three of Dante’s Inferno features the gates to hell with the famous inscription, “Abandon hope all ye who enter”. In this image, we see the gates in the top right corner near the earth’s surface opening onto a spiraled descent to the river Styx. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1753112772772-LY6UGVWYDV2UMGIGCIFZ/Heylyn+%281670%291.jpg Earthly Extractions Rare Book Exhibit Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie (1670) This map of the Americas features some striking visual elements in land and sea including an uneven density of place names around the continents as well as ships and serpents occupying the oceans. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book library. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-earth-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553168839-XZU05QJ2KM79TB5B0KAE/Evelyn+%281679%29+1.jpg Elemental Thinking: Earth Exhibit John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees (1679) In its original context this text was a report to the British Navy that advocated for reforestation given the excessive felling of trees to build ships for war and exploration. However, it also contains details information on tree species and their uses, such as this image depicting how one might gather sap from birch trees. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553193422-W9UUZRKTDQO9DDFEVVLC/IMG_0140.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Exhibit Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum (1685) Given the similarities of their titles, you might expect that this text, like Evelyn’s also focuses on trees. However, here the “forest of forests” becomes metaphor for a collection of Bacon’s experiments and observations of natural history, including metallurgy. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553148513-1I52O3N866IO95FRKU1B/IMG_0138.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Exhibit John Ray, A Collection of English Words (1674) This catalog of English words also contains catalogs of bird and fish species alongside instructions on refining various metals. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553218663-2ICJO5HKWCBZYUOB2M14/IMG_0143.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Exhibit Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1650) Browne aims to disprove and discredit commonly held superstitions in this text. For example, he refutes the belief that mandrake roots shriek when pulled from the ground or frequently grow under gallows. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1760553239270-M5TNYVXMV52OBN4OTE81/IMG_0142.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Earth Exhibit John Gerard, The Herball or General History of Plants (1633) The woodcut images of plants in Gerard’s Herbal also contain depictions of the root system. But in this example of the mandrake, notice the emphasis on the root over the leaves in comparison to the henbane. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-air-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762789325858-JJEE65G1PXXNSCD21L53/Copy+of+22110_141.jpg Elemental Thinking: Air Exhibit Walter Blith, The English Improver Improved (1653) This manual, like other land management manuals, guides the reader’s practical engagements with the land by drawing on Blith’s own experience as farmer and surveyor. Exploring how a farmer might harness natural energies, he includes an impressive fold-out engraving of a windmill. Held in the Kinney Center’s Rare Book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788572049-HJNE3R0OFBIQ5JPIAQHV/IMG_0317.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Exhibit Richard Bradley, New Improvements of Planting and Gardening (1731) Bradley viewed blights as manifestations of environmental imbalance—often spread through “corrupted air” or excess moisture. He treated blight as both a natural and moral warning, urging careful management of air, soil, and season to preserve crop health. For Bradley, understanding blights meant reading the invisible influences of the atmosphere. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788575203-WG08FN2POYUXLHSOA2ZH/IMG_0321.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Exhibit Ovid, Metamorphosis (1586) In Book 8 of Metamorphosis, Daedalus crafts wings of feathers and wax so he and his son, Icarus, can escape Crete. He teaches Icarus to fly through the middle air: not too low, where the sea’s dampness would weigh him down, nor too high, where the sun’s heat would melt the wax. Air, in this tale, becomes the realm of human aspiration and Icarus’ fall shows that the air, though liberating, is also perilous when pride overtakes wisdom. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788572001-UVMI8I1IGNG3SQIXO31J/IMG_0316.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Exhibit John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturæ (1676) As an agriculturalist, Worlidge treats wind as both a practical concern for farmers and a messenger of atmospheric change—its direction, strength, and quality foretelling rain, storms, or fair skies. In this text, wind is not just a natural force but a readable language that allowed farmers to prepare for upcoming weather events. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1762788573287-ULB2P673XDJCMPMJQ14U/IMG_0318.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Air Exhibit Robert Boyle, Paradoxica Hydrostatica (1677) Using his air pump, shown here, Boyle demonstrated that air exerts pressure and that this pressure is essential for respiration, combustion, and the behavior of fluids. His discovery—later formalized as Boyle’s Law—transformed air from a mysterious element into a measurable physical force, marking a turning point in the scientific understanding of the atmosphere. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/elemental-thinking-fire-exhibit daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155572679-R5ZPL2114CHUBJ4NPYNP/IMG_9820.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Exhibit John Donne, Devotions (1624) Reading by candlelight was a common practice, but was not without risks.One reader held the book too close to the flame and set the text on fire. On loan from the private collection of Joseph Black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155572896-K4PCFDOTCPWNO34JKZQM/22110_072.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Exhibit Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684) Just as he hypothesized that the earth was once covered in water, Burnet also asserted that the earth must endure a fiery conflagration that will allow it to return to its hollow, egg-like shape. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155832597-Q9R0IMI5XNQEOHS7F4V0/IMG_0342.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Fire Exhibit Robert Boyle, New Experiments, touching the relation betwixt flame and air (1672) Boyle uses his air pump to better understand the relationship between these two elements, discovering, for example that fire needs air to burn. On loan from the Archives & Special Collections, Amherst College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155832595-Z0AX4SUYY47RFK306FJ0/IMG_0343.jpeg Elemental Thinking: Fire Exhibit William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1623) It was during a performance of Henry VII in 1613 that the cannon fire called for in Act One set the thatch roof of the Globe on fire. On loan from the Gillespie Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1763155677390-MJW13MIC1TXVXJ4Z0XHP/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+4.21.24%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Elemental Thinking: Fire Exhibit John Swan, Speculum Mundi (1635) This text, like Burnet’s Sacred Theory, attempts to reconcile scientific and religious understandings of the world. He explores the world’s beginnings, its impending demise, and its natural phenomenon—including the various fires in the skies such as comets, meteors, and firedrakes. Held in the Kinney Center’s rare book collection. https://www.renaissanceoftheearth.com/artefacts daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e94aee82b575e1197377dcb/1774450994358-FUWCSOFU3UFPOEDEIYCR/Colin+Hoag_Glasshouse.png Art(e)facts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.