Publications

Dibner Library Lectures On The History Of Science And Technology (in PDF format where available):

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Coming Soon:

• 2017: History of Science Dava Sobel on "The Glass Universe: A Unique Scientific Library" December 14, 2017
• 2016: Color Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Color in the Scientific Image". January 13, 2017
• 2015: Physiology Laura Otis on "The Fantastic World of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Emotions: Two Literary Portrayals"  December 2, 2015
• 2014: AlchemyLawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University) on "Alchemy and Chemistry: Breaking up and Making Up (Again and Again)" December 11, 2014
• 2013: AstronomyRobert S. Westman (University of California, San Diego) on "Copernicus and the Astrologers" December 12, 2013
• 2012: Engineering and LiteratureRosalind Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on "Engineering Romance in Late Nineteenth Century LIterature" November 28, 2012
• 2011: History of ScienceLaura J. Snyder (St. John's University) on "The Philosophical Breakfast Club and the Invention of the Scientist" December 6, 2011
• 2010: The Era of Experiments and the Age of WonderRichard Holmes on "Romantic Science" March 4, 2010
• 2006: Political Arithmetic Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) on "Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity" December 13, 2006
• 2004: AstronomyAlbert Van Helden (Rice University and the University of Utrecht) discusses the beginnings of telescopic astronomy. View the webcast. October 27, 2004
• 2003: MetrologyKen Alder (Northwestern University) on "The Measure of the World."  November 5, 2003.
• 2002: TechnologyAnthony Grafton (Princeton University) discusses "Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe."  October 15, 2002
• 2001: The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at 25 Years: Celebrating the Collector's Vision and Its LegacyOwen Gingerich (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard University) on "Icons of Understanding: Celebrating Bern Dibner's Heralds of Science." October 3, 2001.
• 2000: Scientific DiscoveriesKenneth L. Caneva (Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) on "The Form and Function of Scientific Discoveries." November 16, 2000
• 2000: Astronomy Steven J. Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory) on "Extraterrestrial Life and Our World View at the Turn of the Millennium."  May 2, 2000