{"id":2002,"date":"2011-05-06T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:57:09","slug":"1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/05\/06\/1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 120 – 1980: Heralds of Science as Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: Norwalk, Conn. and Washington, D.C., 1980\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This lavishly illustrated catalog reads like a Who\u2019s Who<\/em> of scientific greats. The Burndy Library, from which these items have been selected, is the fruit of more than fifty years of collecting by Bern Dibner. A self-made Ukrainian immigrant, Dibner made his fortune as an inventive electrical engineer. He donated about 10,000 volumes \u2013 roughly a quarter of his collection \u2013 to the Smithsonian in 1974. The remainder of the collection, which was housed at MIT from 1992-2006, now resides at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe books described here,\u201d the introduction begins, \u201cwere selected by Bern Dibner from a large collection of scientific and technical works \u2026 as representative of landmarks in the history of science and technology.\u201d Among the two hundred titles featured are Copernicus\u2019 De Revolutionibus<\/em> and Kepler\u2019s Astronomia Nova<\/em>. Galileo\u2019s Siderius Nuncius <\/em>has its place, as does Newton\u2019s Principia Mathematica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Most entries cite book-length works, but seminal discoveries that were announced in scientific journals are included too: Alexander Graham Bell, Heinrich Hertz, Albert Einstein, and James Clerk Maxwell are among the authors represented by important journal articles.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

MIT itself is fortunate enough to own a number of the items in this catalog. At the Institute Archives and Special Collections, you\u2019ll find copies of Peregrinus\u2019 De Magnete<\/em> (1558) and William Gilbert\u2019s De Magnete<\/em> (1600), both landmark works on magnetism. A first-edition copy of Otto von Guericke\u2019s Experimenta Nova<\/em> (1672) sits on our shelves, too, not far from Robert Boyle\u2019s New Experiments Physico-Mechanical<\/em> (1662) \u2026 we could go on, but modesty, as they say, is a virtue. (Still: ask about our Bernoulli!)<\/p>\n

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Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published: Norwalk, Conn. and Washington, D.C., 1980 This lavishly illustrated catalog reads like a Who\u2019s Who of scientific greats. The Burndy Library, from which these items have been selected, is the fruit of more than fifty years of collecting by Bern Dibner. A self-made Ukrainian immigrant, Dibner made his fortune as an inventive electrical engineer. He donated about 10,000 volumes \u2013 roughly a quarter of his collection \u2013 to the Smithsonian in 1974. The remainder of the collection, which was housed at MIT from 1992-2006, now resides at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. \u201cThe books described here,\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}