Thursday, December 8, 2011

An alchemist of the past in 3D

Mubil: a digital laboratory. A project of two years, financed by NTNU University Library and the National Library of Norway. The Mubil laboratory was established in june 2011 as an interdisciplinary cooperation between the NTNU University library,with Alexandra Angeletaki as the project manager,in collaboration with Letizia Jaccheri professor at the Department of Computer Science of the NTNU University and Chiara Evangelista from the Percro laboratory of the University of Santa Anna in Pisa Italy and started in october 2011 with the development of a pilot application.

The first story to be told:

Adam, an alchemist of the past

Texts: Jorgen Brekke

Drawings: Irene Dominguez

Digitalization: Ingunn Østgaard

Technical collaborators: Eva Sauvage, Ove Wolden

Photos: Nils Kristian Eikeland

Technical design: Chiara Evangelista

Inspired by the exhibition in Suhmhuset,

May 2011: Alkemi, Kjemiens røtter

Texts by Stein Johansen and Rolv Jakobsen

By Mubil project, Project manager: Alexandra Angeletaki /NTNU Univeristy Library

If you want to read more about handmade illustrations in books of that period read” Old handwriting” by Monica Aasen.

Relevant links: Robert Boyle

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Newton going Digital!

Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.

This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.

Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.

The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.

Zoom in the book here

The establishment of the library that is today called Gunnerus library belongs to the history of the DKNVS. The library today has initiated aprogram of digitization of its most valuable books, manuscripts and archives and is developing a open platform where its valuable documents can be accessed by the public. Using "Erez" one can actually browse through the book and zoom inn its pages and thus enjoy all the details as if one was holding the book in his hand.

Service terms and prices

The NTNU Gunnerus Library charges a use fee based on its ownership of the physical materials in its collections.

Photo colection

We have about 400 000 photographs from Trondheim in the early 1900’s until around 1940’s in our collection. We are in process of digitizing the material, and you can search our digital collection on the website “trondheimsbilder”. Here you can search by name, address or location. To order a photo you need to follow the link called “more options and information”, and then a link called “bestill bilde” (order photo) in Norwegian.

In case you wish to publish the photo we charge a use fee of 500 NOK for commercial publications, and 200 NOK for non-commercial publications each time the material is published.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us.

Photo services

Prints /analog development
13x18	170,-
18x24	170,-

Digitisation of photos or document scan, price per item:

Low quality
0 – 1 Mb	50,-

High quality
1 - 20 Mb	150,-
21 - 50 Mb	200,-
over 50 Mb	300,-

Shipping and handling:

E-mail	50,- per item
Download	50,- per item
CD	100,- + 50,- per item + postage
Paper	50,- per item + postage

The history.

The library was originally established by the the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters which was was founded in 1760 by Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Gerhard Schøning, a headmaster, and Councillor of State Peter Friderich Suhm under the name Det Trondhiemske Selskab (the Trondheim Society). It received the Royal Affirmation of its statutes in 1767 and was named Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab . The cultural heritage collections are going back to the 1760s when the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters began collecting natural history material and also material pertaining to cultural history. Today it includes Manuscripts, Libri Rari 400.000 pictures and documents together with many other collections of books and items of great value for the history of the area around Trondheim but as well as for the whole of Norway in general.

The Archives and Manuscripts of the Gunnerus Library