Submission deadline is February 3, 1998. The Countess of Montgomery's Urania With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in collaboration with the Renaissance English Text Society, the Center for Renaissance Studies is sponsoring the production of a complete edition of Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania , the first known work of prose fiction written by an English woman. The editor of this monumental prose romance is the late Josephine Roberts, who was Professor of English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth . The first volume of the Urania was published in 1995. The general editors of the Corpus are Giorgio Spini, John Tedeschi, and Cesare Vasoli.
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A Checklist of the Newberry Library's Printed Books in Science, Medicine, Technology, and the Pseudosciences ca. This annotated checklist reflects the interdisciplinary character of science before the age of specialization. Compiled by Jean S. Gottlieb, the checklist introduces the Newberry Library's science holdings in all their remarkable variety. The books are not grouped as scientific texts, but are dispersed among the library's collection of the history of printing, incunabula, and exploration and travel literature. Subjects represented include metallurgy, astronomy, medicine, alchemy, geometry, witchcraft, magic, physics, engineering, technology, and biology.