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BOOK

Title:  
Beyond the observatory
Creator:
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972
Publication:
Scribner, New York, [1967]
Call #:  
504 SH2B
Extent:
222 p. ; 22 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Of matters great and small
Creator:
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1990
Publication:
Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, 1975.
Call #:  
500 AS4O
Extent:
xi, 223 p. : tables ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Opere di Galileo Galilei, linceo nobile Fiorentino già lettore delle matematiche nelle Università di Pisa, e di Padoua, di poi sopraordinario nello studio di Pisa ... In questa nuova editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell'istesso autore no p
Creators:
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Manolessi, Carlo, fl. 1659
Publication:
Per gli HH. del Dozza, In Bologna, 1655-1656.
Call #:  
508 G13o 2 v. in 4
Extent:
2 v. in 4 : fronts., illus., diagrs., fold. plates ; 23 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
A Brief treatise on astronomy, entomology, and general science; being an abridgment from a popular course of ten lectures
Creator:
Hall, O. A.
Publication:
Printed by A. Watson, Lowell, 1841.
Call #:  
500 PAM. NO.170
Extent:
48 p. illus. 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Through space & time
Creators:
Jeans, James HopwoodSir, 1877-1946 | Royal Institution of Great Britain
Publication:
Macmillan, New York, 1947, [c1934]
Call #:  
504 J34T.R
Extent:
xiv, 224 p. : 53 plates ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
Survey of physical science for college students
Creator:
McCorkle, Paul, 1890-
Publication:
P. Blakiston's son and co., inc, Philadelphia, 1938.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographies.
Call #:  
500 M13S
Extent:
xiii, 471 p. : front., illus., diagrs., ports., tables, maps, charts ; 22 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Relics from the wreck of a former world, or, Splinters gathered on the shores of a turbulent planet: Proving, to a demonstration, the vast antiquity of the Earth ... with an appendix on the scenery in a patch of infinite space
Publication:
W.H. Graham, H. Long & Brother, Burges, Stringer & Co, New York, 1847.
Call #:  
500 PAM. NO.250
Extent:
96 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
From Eros to Gaia
Creator:
Dyson, Freeman John, 1923-
Publication:
Pantheon Books, New York, c1992.
Notes:  
"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:  
500 D99F
Extent:
xi, 371 p. : 24 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry, etc
Creator:
Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899
Publication:
Ward, Lock & Co, New York, 1885.
Notes:  
Translated and enlarged from [his] "Les Récréations Scientifiques." Last 12 pages publisher's advertisements.
Call #:  
500 T52P
Extent:
x, 781, [12] p. : front., illus., diagrs., tables ; 24 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Cosmos: a sketch of a physical description of the universe
Creators:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Otée, E. C. (Elise C.)
Publication:
H.G. Bohn, London, 1848-1858.
Notes:  
Translation of: Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Vol. 4 : translated by E.C. Ottée and B.H. Paul. Vol. 5 : translated by E.C. Ottée and W.S. Dallas. Readex Microprint edition. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:  
LMK v.1-5
Extent:
5 v. (xvii p, [1] p, ix p, [1] p, 369 p, [1] p, 18 p, 40 p; 7 p, [3] p, xxi p, p.370-742, 16 p; [vi] p, 289 p, [1] p, 8 p, 32 p; xv p, [1] p, p.291-601, [1] p, 7 p, [1] p, 32 p; viii p, 500 p. : Front. (port.) tables.



BOOK

Title:  
Natural history of the inanimate creation: being a guide to the scenery of the heavens, the phenomena of the atmosphere, the structure and geological features of the earth, and its botanical productions
Creator:
Ansted, D. T. (David Thomas), 1814-1880
Publication:
Houlston and stoneman; Wm. S. Orr and Co, London, 1856.
Call #:  
504 AN8N
Extent:
xvi, 403 p. : front., illus., maps, tables, charts ; 20 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The scientific papers of William Parsons: third earl of Rosse, 1800-1867
Creators:
Rosse, William ParsonsEarl of, 1800-1867 | Parsons, CharlesSir, 1854-1931
Publication:
Printed by P. Lund, Humphries & co. ltd.], Bradford, London, 1926.
Notes:  
Most of the papers deal with the telescope and nebulae.
Call #:  
520.8 R735
Extent:
3 p.l, 221 p. illus., plates. 31 x 22 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Publication:
Cotta, Stuttgart, Tübingen, 1845-1862.
Notes:  
Includes bibliographies and index.
Call #:  
LMK v.1-5
Extent:
5 v. (xvi p, 493 p, [1] p; [3] p, 544 p; [2] p, 644 p; [2] p, 649 p, [1] p; [2] p, 1297 p; [3] p , 136 p.) : Tables (1 fold.), illus., 42 pl. (incl. col. maps)



BOOK

Title:  
Astronomy and general physics: considered with reference to natural theology
Creator:
Whewell, William, 1794-1866
Publication:
Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1836.
Notes:  
With Kidd, John. On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man. Philadelphia, 1836.
Call #:  
612 K54o
Extent:
194 p. ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
Atoms, man, & stars
Creators:
Bunte, Eibert H., 1925- | Finlay, Ian F.
Publication:
Hawthorn Books, New York, [1965, c1962]
Notes:  
Translation of De mens tussen groot en klein. First published in English under title: Between stars and atoms.
Call #:  
500 B88a
Extent:
223 p. : illus., diagrs. ; 21 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The sciences of energy: a commentary for the general reader on recent advances in astronomy, physics and chemistry
Creator:
Crowther, J. G. (James Gerald), 1899-
Publication:
Scientific Book Club, London, [c1954]
Notes:  
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 266-267.
Call #:  
504 C88S
Extent:
271 p. ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
The scientific papers of John Couch Adams
Creator:
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892
Publication:
University press, Cambridge, 1896-1900.
Call #:  
504 Ad14 v.1, 2
Extent:
2 v. : il. 1 por. 6 pl. fac-sim. ; 29 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
A system of mechanical philosophy
Creators:
Robison, John, 1739-1805 | Brewster, DavidSir, 1781-1868 | Watt, James, 1736-1819 | Southern, John.
Publication:
Printed for J. Murray, Edinburgh, 1822.
Notes:  
Compiled from the author's Elements of mechanical philosophy, v. 1, 1804, with some manuscripts intended to have formed part of a 2d vol. to the "Elements", and the greater part of the articles furnished by him to the "Encylopaedia britannica". cf. Allibone, Dict. of authors. Vol. 2 has added t.-p.: The articles Steam and Steam-engines, written for the Encyclopædia britannica by John Robison ... With notes and additions by James Watt ... And a letter on some properties of steam by the late John Southern, esq. References to Benjamin Franklin.
Call #:  
508 R56s.b v.1-4
Extent:
4 v. : 50 plates (illus. diagrs.) ; 22 cm.



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1563-1973
Abstract:  

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.
Call #:  
Mss.509.L56
Extent:
5.75 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1638-1980, Undated
Call #:  
Mss.973.C683
Extent:
760 item(s)
Subjects:  

Abenaki language | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Abolitionists. | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Actors | Aeronautics -- History | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Agricultural exhibitions | Agriculture -- Missouri | Air -- Purification -- Equipment and supplies | Albert Medal | Alcoholic beverage industry -- United States | Alphabets | America -- Antiquities. | American Anti-Vivisection Society | American Philosophical Society | American Philosophical Society -- Prizes | American Philosophical Society. Library | American loyalists. | Anatomy -- Study and teaching. | Animal magnetism. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Anthropology | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | Aquariums. | Archaeology -- Mexico | Archaeology -- United States. | Architectural drawings. | Architecture | Archives | Arithmetic. | Art -- Exhibitions | Astronomical instruments. | Astronomy | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Atlases | Balloons. | Bank notes -- Forgeries | Bank notes -- Great Britain | Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania | Barometers. | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company | Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. New Testament | Bible. O.T. 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