Manuscripts

Vito Volterra offprints collection

Description

Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry.

Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, Gösta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Lévy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of Élie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.

Please see the Other Finding Aids note for more information on the materials within the collection.

Type

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Date

1754-1956

Call number

mssVolterra

Creator

Volterra, Vito (1860-1940)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006. Vito Volterra collected offprints until his death in 1940. A small number of papers are dated between 1941 and 1956; it is unknown when or by whom they were added to the collection. After Volterra's death, Bern Dibner was the intermediary between Brandeis University Libraries and Volterra's son Enrico. In 1980 and 1981, Volterra's collection of books, offprints, and other materials was sold to Brandeis University and sent in three shipments, two-thirds of which remained on deposit from the Italian government. The entire Volterra collection was transferred to the Dibner Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. In 2006, Volterra's collection, including the offprints, was gifted to The Huntington, along with the entirety of the Burndy Library.

Restrictions

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Rights

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Associated people

Dibner, Bern,

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Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
mssVolterra
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Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
mssVolterra
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Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
mssVolterra
Image not available
Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
mssVolterra
Image not available
Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
mssVolterra
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Offprints
Manuscripts
Collection contains approximately 17,000 offprints, reprints, and pamphlets on the history of science collected by Vito Volterra, many of which are dedicated by the authors to Volterra. Materials date from 1754 through 1956; however, the bulk of the papers date to the first few decades of the twentieth century. Materials relate to Volterra's involvement with the international scientific community of the time, especially in Europe and the United States. Subjects represented are primarily the physical sciences, in particular astronomy, mathematics, fluid mechanics, energetics, and chemistry. Materials include works by many of Volterra's Italian and European mathematician contemporaries, including Beppo Levi, Tullio Levi-Civita, G̲sta Mittag-Lefler, Jacques Hadamard, G. H. Hardy, and Paul Ľvy, as well as inaugural lectures of many noted scholars and theses of their students. Of note is the most complete collection of reprints pertaining to the first phase of general relativity, which includes the works of ⁹lie Cartan, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Levi-Civita, and Hermann Weyl. However, the collection also includes papers and lectures by lesser-known scholars.
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