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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Correspondence

Hansteen, Christopher,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Haüy, René Just,; Desfontaines, René Louiche,; Dutour, Étienne François,; Lamouroux, M.; Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Hooker, Joseph Dalton,; Balfour, John Hutton,; Bentham, George,; Carruthers, William,; Farr, William,; Gray, John Edward,; Miller, W. H,; Percy, John,; Prestwich, Joseph, Sir,; Ramsay, Andrew Crombie,; Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir,; Sclater, Philip Lutley,; Sharpey, William,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir,; Bedford, John Russell, Duke of,; Cole, Henry,; Livingstone, David,; Nuttall, Thomas,; Russell, John, 1st Earl,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Henry, Joseph,; Cleaveland, Parker,; Earle, Pliny,; Greble, Edwin St. John; Rogers, William Barton,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Kobell, Franz von,; Schafhäutl, Karl Emil von,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Piria, Raffaele,; Matteucci, Carlo,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Priestley, Joseph,; Carey, John,; Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,; Lindsey, Theophilus,; Turner, William,; Wedgwood, Josiah,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Remsen, Ira,; Cobb, John N.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Ressel, Josef,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Sainte-Claire Deville, Henri Étienne,; Chasles, M.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Šimerka, Vaclav,; Mikeš, František Otakar,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron,; Carhart, Henry S.; Thompson, Silvanus P.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Correspondence

Struve, F. G. W.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Cours de physique

Roques, Pierre; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Cristallographie

Romé de L'Isle, Jean Baptiste Louis de,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Daniel Gralath document

Gralath, Daniel,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries); Danziger Naturforschende Gesellschaft.

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