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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Michaelis, Leonor,; Wiechowski, Wilhelm Friedrich,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Pauli, Wolfgang,; Wiechowski, Wilhelm Friedrich,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Ostwald, Wilhelm,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Poulsen, Valdemar,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Quetelet, George,; Ørsted, Hans Christian,; Mons, Jean-Baptiste van,; Ouetelet, Adolphe,; Weber, Sophus,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Roux, Wilhelm,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Ryan, Harris Joseph,; Hammer, William Joseph,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Siedentopf, Henry Friedrich Wilhelm,; Lakowitz, Conrad Waldemar,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Schmidt, Ernst; Wiechowski, Wilhelm Friedrich,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Cover of Preface to the Weather Almanac

Preface to the Weather Almanac

Murphy, Patrick,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Cover of R. W. Bunsen's Vortrage über anorganische Experimentalchemie

R. W. Bunsen's Vortrage über anorganische Experimentalchemie

Bunsen, R.; Meder, Ferdinand; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.). Library,
den 6/1 1876
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Girard, Stephen,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Lewis, William,; Northumberland, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Review

Jussieu, Bernard de,; Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques,; Duhamel du Monceau, M.,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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