Yes, I read about this in the NY Times. It looks like a great exhibit.
Glad it runs through Feb. 19. Thanks for posting the info.

Erik Petersen


On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Valerie Storfer wrote:

> Greater NY GNSI Chapter & interested others:
> 
>     There is a wonderful show of scientific illustration at the Main
Branch 
> of the New York Public Library culled from NYPL's amazing rare book 
> collection.  Not to be missed-- features William Harvey (1st treatise
on 
> circulation of blood), Copernicus, Robert Hooke's Micrographia,
Audobon, 
> Edward Lear ("first illustrated work of ornithology devoted to a single 
> family of birds", Psittacidae), Vesalius and tons more.  
> 
>     The show runs through 19 Feb, 2000.  A companion catalogue is
avail, 
> $22.50.
> 
>     A series of lectures has been running concurrently.  The next one is
Mon 
> Nov 22 - Michio Kaku: "Visualizing the Invisible: Hyperspace and and
the 
> Origin of the Universe". $10..
> 
>     There are three other related shows at the same branch (which I
haven't 
> yet seen, so can't comment on these):
> Sight/Insight: Visual Commentaries on the Physical World,  Contemporary 
> artists. 9/18/99-1/8/00.
> Berenice Abbot: Science Photographs, 10/2/99-1/8/00.
> Drawings by Charles Addams: Adventures in Science and Exploration, 
> 9/10/99-1/29/00.
> 
> The Library is free
> 42nd St & 5th Ave, NYC
> 212 592 7000
> www.nypl.org
> M, Th–Sat  10–6
> T,W  11–7:30,   Closed Sun
> 
> Docent tours daily (1 - 1 1/4 hr long) 12:30 & 2:30
> 
> Specifically to NY Chapter:  
> checked out private tour for us.  Costs $7/person (for groups of 10  or
more) 
> .  Dec is already booked, but they said they could prob set something
up 
> anyway.  However, they don't have a space for us to meet.  If still 
> interested, contact the volunteer office at 212 930 0501.
> 
> Speaking of MTG PLACES.  I can offer the meeting room in my coop bldg.  
> Nothing fancy, its in the basement, but seats at least 50, costs $30.  I
am 
> located at 108th St and Fifth Ave in Manhattan, at the north end of
Cental 
> Park and the edge of Spanish Harlem.  This is 2 blocks from the
Conservatory 
> Gardens  (can do this for ASBA, too), and 2 blocks the other way to the 
> Discovery Center (CP's Nature Ctr).  
> 
> Valerie Storfer
> 1270 Fifth Ave  6m
> NY NY 10029
> 212 534 4722
>