Manuscripts
Offprints
- 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, 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.
