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 13^th to the 20^th 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 [Report on a scientific expedition to Bohemia and Hungary]; L'Economia rurale nelle Province Lombardo Veneto

[Report on a scientific expedition to Bohemia and Hungary]; L'Economia rurale nelle Province Lombardo Veneto

Configliachi, Luigi; Beggiato, Francesco

1835-1836

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[Saponificazione]

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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[Scientific notes]

Searle, George Frederick Charles,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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Cover of [Solvay Conference portraits]

[Solvay Conference portraits]

Solvay Conference on Physics Brussels, Belgium)

[ca. 1911]

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Cover of [Sundial]

[Sundial]

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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Cover of [Sur le choc longetudinal de deux barres parfaitement élastiques et sur la proportion de leur force vive qui est perdue pour la translation ulterieur

[Sur le choc longetudinal de deux barres parfaitement élastiques et sur la proportion de leur force vive qui est perdue pour la translation ulterieure]

Barré de Saint-Venant, Adhémar Jean Claude,; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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Cover of [Trigonometry] ; [Navigation] ; [A journal by God's permission of the ship Panther from England toward Madeira, Capt. J[oh]n Bonline Commander]

[Trigonometry] ; [Navigation] ; [A journal by God's permission of the ship Panther from England toward Madeira, Capt. J[oh]n Bonline Commander]

Wilson, William (navigator); Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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