Heralds of Science

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In 1955 Bern Dibner, the noted science book collector and founder of the Burndy Library, published Heralds of Science as Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets Selected from the Burndy Library.  To construct the list, Dibner selected two hundred items he owned that “proclaimed new truths or hypotheses in science.” Two hundred titles, he felt, was an adequate number to represent the great achievements while not being too many to overwhelm the average layperson interested in science.  More...

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Cover of Grundlagen der Chemie

Grundlagen der Chemie

Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich; Jawein, L.; Thillot, A.
Verlag von Carl Ricker
1891

48. The Periodic Law

Cover of Grundlagen der Chemie

Grundlagen der Chemie

Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich; Jawein, L.; Thillot, A.
Verlag von Carl Ricker
1891

48. The Periodic Law

Cover of Grundlagen der Chemie

Grundlagen der Chemie

Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich; Jawein, L.; Thillot, A.
Verlag von Carl Ricker
1891

48. The Periodic Law

Cover of Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete

Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete

Gilbert, William; Wright, Edward
Excudebat Petrus Short
anno MDC [1600]

54. Magnetism and Electricity

Cover of Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete

Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete

Gilbert, William; Wright, Edward
Excudebat Petrus Short
anno MDC [1600]

54. Magnetism and Electricity

Cover of Gum-elastic and its varieties

Gum-elastic and its varieties v. 1-2 (1853)

Goodyear, Charles
Published for the author
1853

47. Vulcanized Rubber

Cover of Historia plantarum

Historia plantarum

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704.

24. English Scientific Botany

Cover of Historia plantarum

Historia plantarum

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704.

24. English Scientific Botany

Cover of Historia plantarum

Historia plantarum

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704.

24. English Scientific Botany

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