Dibner Library Manuscripts
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.
![Cover of [Drawing of a pump]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/drawingpump00dibncover.jpg?itok=2X7EWlk5 "Cover of [Drawing of a pump]")
![Cover of [Lecture notes on the natural history of man]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/lecturenotesonn00rhincover.jpg?itok=sU5HZXh8 "Cover of [Lecture notes on the natural history of man]")
![Cover of [Mathematics]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/mathematics00wilscover.jpg?itok=Tvxm-Crr "Cover of [Mathematics]")
![Cover of [Measuring the earth]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/measuringearth00willcover.jpg?itok=ox03DWtu "Cover of [Measuring the earth]")
![Cover of [Mesmerismo]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/mesmerismo00dibncover.jpg?itok=4L6lD3xi "Cover of [Mesmerismo]")
![Cover of [Navigation]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/navigation00barkcover.jpg?itok=XAY3wg7U "Cover of [Navigation]")
![Cover of [Physics -- experimental equipment]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/physicsexperime00dibncover.jpg?itok=TeUeRULA "Cover of [Physics -- experimental equipment]")
![Cover of [Practical notebook]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/practicalnotebo00shelcover.jpg?itok=dCqBkF60 "Cover of [Practical notebook]")
![Cover of [Report on a scientific expedition to Bohemia and Hungary]; L'Economia rurale nelle Province Lombardo Veneto](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/reportonscienti00conf_cover.jpg?itok=NyG110of "Cover of [Report on a scientific expedition to Bohemia and Hungary]; L'Economia rurale nelle Province Lombardo Veneto")
![Cover of [Saponificazione]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/saponificazione00dibncover.jpg?itok=d-ALg2WL "Cover of [Saponificazione]")
![Cover of [Scientific notes]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/scientificnotes00searcover.jpg?itok=Tid7ZOmJ "Cover of [Scientific notes]")
![Cover of [Solvay Conference portraits]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/solvayconferenc00solvcover.jpg?itok=a8iKLHZ6 "Cover of [Solvay Conference portraits]")
![Cover of [Sundial]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/sundial00dibncover.jpg?itok=OT_kLZam "Cover of [Sundial]")
![Cover of [Trigonometry] ; [Navigation] ; [A journal by God's permission of the ship Panther from England toward Madeira, Capt. J[oh]n Bonline Commander]](https://library.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_small/public/books/covers/trigonometrynav00wilscover.jpg?itok=NiJO3JiS "Cover of [Trigonometry] ; [Navigation] ; [A journal by God's permission of the ship Panther from England toward Madeira, Capt. J[oh]n Bonline Commander]")
