John Vining

Last summer, I worked as an intern in the manuscripts department, exploring the Library's large collection of history of science materials. Now and then, a nonpaper item would appear among the boxes…

Earlier this summer I wrote about Volterra's Egg, a hollowed-out chicken egg that Italian mathematician Vito Volterra had marked up with curves and equations. It's among the items in The Huntington'…

While reviewing items from The Huntington's history of science collection for a project I'm working on, a box labeled "Volterra's Egg" caught my eye. Vito Volterra (1860–1940) was an Italian…