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Who knew Shakespeare and Copernicus went to Rice?

They may have lived and worked in different eras, but these days, Galileo, Picasso, Shakespeare, Copernicus and Matisse reside in the same building. Or at least their works do. The Woodson Research Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library is home to famous and rare folios and first editions, including the 443-year-old De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI by Nicolai Copernicus and one of 240 existing copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which offers original texts of the bard’s plays and was published in 1623. Also in residence at Woodson? Limited Editions Club books illustrated by Picasso and Matisse, a work by Galileo published in 1623, a 1686 copy of Newton’s Principia and countless other rare and important works — many of which can be seen by appointment. So give the Woodson a call and get ready to visit with some of the greatest minds in history at the university they call home.