Digital Library: Natural and Physical Sciences
 For hundreds of years people dreamed of linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the narrow neck of land connecting North and South... |
 Ellen G. K. Rubin discovered pop-up and movable books when she began reading them to her sons over 25 years ago. Today, she has more than 6,500... |
 The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is fortunate to have a few early editions of Verne's works with the original engraved illustrations which... |
 Throughout time, explorers have drawn readers to faraway places through stories and songs, maps and drawings, manuscripts and books. Their... |
 This online publication, By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea, aims to "revisit" a... |
 For ages, astronomers looked for a way to measure the distance between Earth and the Sun. This distance, called the astronomical unit was a... |
 William F. Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. and the author of a 7-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law entitled Patry on... |
 William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum discusses conservation and imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest. |
 David S. Ferriero is the 10th Archivist of the United States. He presents on the issues and controversies surrounding the National Archives' use... |
 "Endeavour's Wake: Captain Cook and the Transit of Venus" Richard Fisher, Director, Sun-Earth Connection Division, NASA Office of Space Science,... |
 This exhibition highlights the life of James Smithson, the English scientist who bequeathed his fortune to the United States to establish an... |
 George Oates, Lead for Open Library, and Nancy Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, talk about the future of libraries, archives... |
 The Heralds of Science are 200 books and articles selected by Bern Dibner from his collection, as the most significant titles in the formation and... |
 Lee Rainie is currently director for the Pew Internet and American Life Project. |
 Albert Van Helden, of the University of Utrecht, gave this presentation at the National Museum of American History about the first exploration of... |
 Sherborn's Index Animalium is a compendium of zoological taxonomic species nomenclature from 1758 to 1850. For each species described in... |
 Scientific trade literature is a unique and uniquely valuable category of historical evidence. But it has not always been so highly regarded.... |
 Roy Tennant is Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and... |
 R. David Lankes is director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and an associate professor in Syracuse University's School of Information... |
 "Public Reaction to the Transit of Venus, 1882" David DeVorkin, Curator of History of Astronomy, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian... |
 Dan Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for... |
 Science and the ArtistÕs Book takes its inspiration from the Heralds of Science (1955; rev. ed. 1980), Bern DibnerÕs... |
 The scientific portrait collection in the Dibner Library was assembled by Bern Dibner. The images formed a fine research complement to the... |
 U.S. Exploring Expedition Nathaniel Philbrick talks about Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery. The U. S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842... |
 James Smithson (c.1765-1829), an 18th-century gentleman of science, included his library with his bequest to the United States, and those books... |
 "Solution of the Black-drop Mystery" Jay M. Pasachoff, Director of Hopkins Observatory and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy, Williams College... |
 "The American Expeditions of 1874 and 1882" Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC... |
 The Art of African Exploration presents a selection of drawings, book illustrations, and other objects from the The Russell E. Train Africana... |
 "The First Observation of a Transit of Venus" - Wilbur Applebaum, Professor Emeritus, Humanities Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago... |
 Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio was published in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, over a period of eight years (... |
 Dr. Laura J. Snyder, Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University in New York City, presents a lecture based on her recent book "The... |
 In one very important way, the work of the United States Exploring Expedition was only beginning when the ships returned to Washington after... |
 Voyages of discovery can be of many kinds: a physical journey to an unknown place, a mental exploration of new or familiar territory, or a wholly... |
 James Neal is currently the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He is a frequent speaker at... |
 The Smithsonian Libraries opened its new exhibition “Whales: From Bone to Book” in the National Museum of Natural History... |
 Why are centuries-old natural history books vital to scientific research? Our scientists consult early printed materials to compare historical... |
 A collection of pamphlets and guide books published by zoos over the past century has been collected by the National Zoological Park branch of the... |
