The Main Library aims at expanding their e-book collection to support students and digital teaching especially during the current situation. Several publishers have accommodated us with temporary open access to their online contents. For the field of informatics the following textbooks are newly available in the UZH-network: Beazley, D. M. & Jones, B. K. Python […]
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Textbooks available as E-books in Informatics
27. April 2020 | Anna C. Véron | Keine Kommentare
Abgelegt unter:E-Book⋅ E-Resources⋅ Good to know⋅ Main Library - Science⋅ New in stock⋅ Tips for Students
Tags: Computer Science⋅ Informatics & Computational Linguistics
Textbooks available as E-Books in Chemistry
18. April 2020 | Martina Gosteli | Keine Kommentare
The Main Library aims at expanding their e-book collection to support students and digital teaching especially during the current situation. Several publishers have accommodated us with temporary open access to their online contents. For the field of chemistry the following textbooks are newly available in the UZH-network: Carey, F. A. & Sundberg, R. J. Advanced […]
Abgelegt unter:E-Book⋅ E-Resources⋅ Good to know⋅ Main Library - Science⋅ New in stock⋅ Tips for Students
Tags: Chemistry
Textbooks available as E-Books in Physics
18. April 2020 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The Main Library aims at expanding their e-book collection to support students and digital teaching especially during the current situation. Several publishers have accommodated us with temporary open access to their online contents. For the field of physics the following textbooks are newly available in the UZH-network: Griffiths, D. J. et. al. Introduction to quantum […]
Abgelegt unter:E-Book⋅ E-Resources⋅ Good to know⋅ Main Library - Science⋅ New in stock⋅ Tips for Students
Tags: Physics
Integration library of the Department of Anthropology
18. February 2020 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The library of the Department of Anthropology was integrated into the Main Library – Science (Y15) at the beginning of February 2020. All books of anthropology are now available on floor J. Books before 1920 can be viewed on request.
Abgelegt unter:Good to know⋅ Main Library - Science⋅ Tips for Researchers⋅ Tips for Students
A detailed map of Switzerland
28. November 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The atlas of the geographer and ethnologist Richard Andree (1835-1912) was published between 1881 and 1937 in various editions. The volume shown in the exhibition is the second edition with 120 maps. Zinc plates were used to produce the maps in this atlas, as these allowed a finer gradation of colours than chromolithography. Shown here […]
Abgelegt unter:Exhibitions⋅ Main Library - Science
Tags: Cartography
The first Swiss school atlas
13. November 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
Heinrich Wettstein (1831-1895), a teacher and member of the department of education in Zurich, developed numerous text books for various branches of the natural sciences and was involved in the creation of a new school atlas. Johannes Randegger (1830-1900) from Winterthur came from a poor background. Thanks to his great talent for drawing, he was […]
Abgelegt unter:Exhibitions⋅ Main Library - Science
Tags: Cartography
Sydow’s idea: How maps got their basic colours
30. October 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The Prussian officer, geographer and cartographer Emil von Sydow (1812-1873) had a great interest in colour lithography for wall maps. The colours green for the lowlands (meadows), brown for mountains (rocks) as well as black for text and lines were his invention. Later, blue was added for water. He produced numerous maps, many of them […]
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Tags: Cartography
Australia and the Europeans
16. October 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The Winterthur born Swiss cartographer Jakob Melchior Ziegler (1801-1883) studied in Geneva under Guillaume Henri Dufour, the creator of the well-known Dufour map. In 1842, Ziegler, together with lithographer and cartographer Johann Ulrich Wurster (1814–1880), founded a very successful cartographic institution with publishing house in Winterthur. Ziegler produced numerous maps of excellent quality, including topographic […]
Abgelegt unter:Exhibitions⋅ Main Library - Science
Tags: Cartography
Beer’s Atlas: of known & unknown countries
2. October 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
The map shown in the exhibition is of northeastern Germany. The borders of the different parts are clearly marked in this map. Other parts of the world were not as well known, explored or surveyed at that time. In the map of Africa, for example, the borders of the different countries are only indicated at […]
Abgelegt unter:Exhibitions⋅ Main Library - Science
Tags: Cartography
An incomplete atlas of 830 sheets
18. September 2019 | HBZ | Keine Kommentare
Austrian cartographer and writer Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly (1766-1820) began work on his extensive Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt in 1789, but had to abandon it in 1806 due to the Napoleonic Wars. The atlas therefore only covers Europe, but with 830 sheets, it is one of the most extensive atlases. Von Reilly’s […]
Abgelegt unter:Exhibitions⋅ Main Library - Science
Tags: Cartography