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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Suess, Eduard,; Redlich, K. A.; Reuss, August Ritter von,; Sollas, W. J.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Swan, Joseph Wilson,; Thompson, Silvanus P.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Sylvester, James Joseph,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Tesla, Nikola,; Carhart, Henry S.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Thénard, Arnaud Paul Edmond, baron,; Sénarmont, Henry Hureau de,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Thénard, Louis Jacques, baron,; Sénarmont, Henry Hureau de,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron,; Berthelot, M.; Blackburn, Hugh; Carhart, Henry S.; Flower, William Henry,; Marconi, Guglielmo,; Watt, James,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von,; Banks, Joseph,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Thomson, J. J. Sir,; Thompson, Silvanus P.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Thomson, Elihu,; Thompson, Silvanus P.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Thorpe, T. E. Sir,; Meyer, Victor,; Thompson, Silvanus P.; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Letters

Toaldo, Giuseppe,; Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de,; Luc, J. A. de; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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List of double stars &c

Barlow, Peter,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Liste des muscles

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Machine et instrumenti de piu celebratissimi autori

Vitruvius Pollio; Besson, Jacques, Dauphinois; Capra, Alessandro; Meijer, Cornelis; Pesasmeno; Hero, of Alexandria; Castriotto, Jacomo Fusto; Pappus, of Alexandria; Fontana, Domenico
[17th century]

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