Exhibit Guide (New Items Added Regularly)

Welcome to the Exhibit Guide. There will be over 100 items to view when you arrive at the exhibit. Here is a short list of what to expect to see when you arrive.

Mother and Child Einiosaurus

Einiosaurus Einiosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur and grew to 6 m (19.8 ft) in length. It is typically portrayed with a low, strongly forward-curving nasal horn that resembles a bottle opener, though this may only occur in some adults.

Edmontosaurus

EdmontosaurusEdmontosaurus (pronounced ed-MON-toh-SAWR-əs) is a duck-billed dinosaur. The fossils of this animal have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage to the end of the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous Period, between 73 and 65.5 million years ago. It was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs, and lived alongside Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus shortly before the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event.

1390 John Wycliffe - NT in Manuscript

Wycliffe Without exception, one of the most important manuscripts in the world today. The first ever Engish New Testament was hand-written in and around the campus of Oxford in 1380. This extraodinary original New Testament, penned in the English of Chaucer has no peer as it to its importance.

Dead Sea Scroll Fragments

Dead Sea Scroll Original Dead Sea Scroll Fragments. Featuring both Biblical and non-Biblical fragments. These incredible pieces of history date to 50 BCE and little is left to wonder why it is referred to as, "The Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the 20th Century."

“The Nuremberg Chronicle”

Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493.

A history of the world from "the first day of Creation" to its own time.

The most profusely illustrated book of the 15th Century, featuring the first modern map of Europe and a version of Ptolemy's map of the World.

Ptolemy

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Geographiae (Geography).

Two beautiful and important editions of Ptolemy's Atlas of the World, from 1511 and 1535.

“Dozens of the Most Important Bibles Ever Printed”

King James
1516 Erasmus Greek New Testament (The Original Textus Receptus)
1455 Gutenburg Leaf from the First Book Ever Printed - The Bible
1530 Martin Luther German New Testament
15th & 16th Century Complete Torah Scrolls on Sheep Skin
1535 Coverdale Bible - The First Complete Bible Ever Printed in English
1537 Matthews Bible - The First Complete Bible Translated From Hebrew & Greek Exclusively
1557 Geneva New Testament - The First Time in History that the English Contains Verses
1560 Geneva Bible - The First Complete Bible to Contain Verses
1568 Bishops' Bible - The Bible Commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I
1709 Experience Mayhew Gospel of John - The First Time Any Portion of the New Testament Was Printed on American Soil

OVER 40 ADDITONAL RARE BIBLES WILL ALSO BE ON DISPLAY. THE ABOVE IS JUST A SMALL PART OF WHAT YOU WILL SEE!

Copernicus

Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Basel,1566.
"On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres."

The astonishing work that broke open the geocentric (Earth-centered) model of the Universe; the most significant scientific book of the 16th Century; the book that began The Scientific Revolution.

"Galileo's Dialogue"

Galileo Galileo Galilei, Dialogo sopra i due massimi Sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano. (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican). Florence: 1632.

The "forbidden book" – prohibited by the Vatican from its publication until 1823 – that made the heliocentric system a commonplace. The link from Copernican hypothesis to Newtonian laws.

“Newton’s Principia”

Newton's Principia Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, London: 1687.

The most important scientific book of the 17th Century; culmination of The Scientific Revolution.

Albert Einstein called it "the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make."

Ortelius

Ortelius Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (The Theater of the Whole World), London: 1606.

First and only English-language edition of the first modern atlas of the world and one of the most brilliant and innovative of all Renaissance books.

Blaeu

Blaeu Willem and Jan Blaeu, Atlas Major, Amsterdam, 1662-1665. The largest, greatest, and finest World Atlas ever published. Breathtakingly beautiful throughout its eleven huge volumes, containing almost 600 hand-colored maps heightened in gold.

Cellarius

CellariusAndreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, Amsterdam, 1660.

The finest Celestial Atlas and most beautiful book of Cosmology ever published. It has no peer. All the printed double-page astronomical plates finely colored and heightened in gold.

Darwin

Darwin"Origin of Species"

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: 1859.

The most important scientific book of the 19th Century, which remains hotly controversial a century and a half later. First book-length popular work on the theory of evolution.

"The Descent of Man"

Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, London: 1871.

First use of the word "evolution" and the first to apply the theory to mankind.