Dibner Library Manuscripts

first page of a handwritten letter from Galileo Galilei letter Nicolas Peiresc in 1635

This collection includes correspondence, study and laboratory books, notes, diaries, and hand-lettered texts by notable scientists from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Authors like Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein and many other significant scientific figures are represented. The manuscripts were carefully selected and originally collected by Bern Dibner (1897-1988) and complement his invaluable collection of rare books on the history of science that are now held by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.

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Cover of Electricity [and] magnetism

Electricity [and] magnetism

Leycester, Robert; Banks, Joseph; Franklin, Benjamin; Galvani, Luigi; Priestley, Joseph; Volta, Alessandro
[19th century]
Cover of Elements of geometry

Elements of geometry

Walker, George; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Cover of Engine book

Engine book

Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company; Allis-Chalmers Company
Cover of Ernst Mach papers,

Ernst Mach papers

Mach, Ernst; Baege, Max Hermann; Einstein, Albert; Gomperz, Heinrich; Haas, William S.; Helm, Georg Ferdinand; Höfler, Alois; Kulke, Eduard; Lampa, Anton; Petzoldt, Joseph; Popper-Lynkeus, Josef; Tausig, Paul

Ernst Mach was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (born 1838 died 1916) who made contributions to physics and the philosophy of science. Mach was the first to study super-sonic motion.

Cover of First draft of a report on the EDVAC

First draft of a report on the EDVAC

Von Neumann, John; United States. Army. Ordnance Department.; University of Pennsylvania
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
1945
Cover of Fisica gener[a]le e sperim[enta]le

Fisica gener[a]le e sperim[enta]le

Morini, Mariano; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
1775-1776
Cover of Formula book

Formula book

Stupaun von Steisburg, Jacob
1660
Cover of Formula book

Formula book

Hoffmann, of Heidelberg
18th Century
Cover of Function theory

Function theory

Hutchinson, John Irwin; Cornell University.

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