Bibliophile and collector David Dilaura will speak to the Society in a Zoom-only meeting at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 12. His topic will be:
“A Startling Discovery: Meeting Isaac Newton in My Own Library.”
A few years ago, David made the discovery of a lifetime on his own shelves, a stunning example of the importance of careful examination in the collecting of books.
David has been a lighting engineer for fifty years, and has taught lighting engineering at at the University of Colorado at Boulder for the last thirty-five. He has been collecting antiquarian books dealing with optics, light, and vision for more than 30 years, and published a massive book on the bibliography of optics books—from 1475 to 1925—in 2022.