Natural Interactions in the Book as Art and Making Knowledge

Credits

Renata Nagy, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Renaissance Studies program, authored and curated the exhibition. She was supported by the Graduate Professional Experience Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. All of the Latin and French translations featured in the exhibition are hers.

Dr. Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History and Head of the Medical Historical Library, created the online installation, and provided generous guidance and feedback during the development of the exhibition.

Dr. Patrick Sweeney, Botanist and Collections Manager at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, identified the Japanese knotweed plant in the Clusius herbal.

Many staff of the Medical Historical Library helped to create this exhibition:

Dana Haugh, MLS, Web Services Librarian at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, provided techical and graphic design support for the exhibition, particularly the sliders.

Kelly Perry, Lead Digitization Technical Assistant at the Medical Historical Library, directed, shot, and edited the videos featured in this exhibition. She also scanned many of the images from the texts.

Terry Dagradi, photographer, shared images for Blackwell's Herbal.

Christopher Zollo, MLS, Historical Library Assistant at the Medical Historical Library, also contributing to scanning and research support.