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The Burndy Library comprises important materials from antiquity to the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on 18th-century physics, including collections by and about Isaac Newton, as well as major collections in 18th- and 19th-century mathematics, the history of electricity, civil and structural engineering, optics and color theory, among others. The collection includes such rare treasures as a 1544 edition of Archimedes' Philosophi ac Geometrae, a first edition of Robert Boyle's Experiments and notes about the mechanical origin or production of electricity (1675) and the scientific library of Louis Pasteur.

 

Grace K. Babson Collection

Victor Darnell Collection

Richard F. and Mary L. Fagan Collection

Cyril Stanley Smith Collection

Alessandro Volta Collection

Vito Volterra Collection

 

 

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