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 Note sur l'electro-chimie médicale

Note sur l'electro-chimie médicale

Guillardeau,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Cover of Notice sur les travaux de botanique de M. A. DeJussieu

Notice sur les travaux de botanique de M. A. DeJussieu

Jussieu, Adrien de,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Cover of Observations sur une substance cireuse

Observations sur une substance cireuse

Pearson, George,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Of the mensuration of solids

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Dierbach, Johann Heinrich,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Gall, F. J.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Hamilton,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Huggins, William, Sir,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Herschel, Caroline Lucretia,; Herschel, William,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Lauer, Gustav Adolf von,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Regiomontanus, Joannes,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Spiegler, Edward,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Stabius, Johannes,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Strouhal, Čěněk,; Weyr, Eduard,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
title page for papers of Giovanni Anotonio Giobert

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Giobert, Giovanni Antonio
1802-1807

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