Our goal is to have an online record for every book, journal, manuscript, manuscript collection, artifact, print, and portrait in the collection and where appropriate, to make selected content available on the Web. The list below highlights just a few of the outstanding holdings in our collections.
Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555.
De ortu & causis subterraneorum, lib. V ; De natura eorum quae effluunt ex terra, lib. IIII ; De natura fossilium, lib. X ; De ueteribus & nouis metallis, lib. II ; Bermannus, siue De re metallica dialogus, lib. I / Georgii Agriola.
Interpretatio Germanica uocum rei metallicae, addito duplici indice, altero rerum, altero locorum, ; omnia ab ipso authore, cum haud pœnitenda accessione, recens recognita.
Basileae : [Per H. Frobenivm et N. Episcopivm], 1558.
BENJ *TN617 A278do 1558
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
[De revolutionibus orbium caelestium] Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium, libri VI. Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere.
Norimbergæ : apud Ioh. Petreium, 1543.
BENJ QB41 .C791dr 1543
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d’après les découvertes modernes; avec figures: par M. Lavoisier.
Paris : Cuchet, 1793.
WZ 260 L396t 1793
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Autore Is. Newton ... Imprimatur S. Pepys, Reg. soc. praeses. Julii 5. 1686.
Londini : Jussu Societatis Regiae ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostat Venales apud Sam. Smith ad insignia Principis Walliae in Coemiterio D. Pauli, aliosq, nonnullos Bibliopolas, 1687.
BENJ QA803 .N484p 1687a
The William Conger Morgan Memorial Collection
The Morgan Memorial Collection, devoted largely to the history of chemistry, was established in the 1940s and named in honor of the first Chairman of the Chemistry Department, William Conger Morgan. The collection includes works of many famous, early chemists including Humphry Davy, Berzelius, Ostwald, Lavoisier, Mendeleev, Plattner, Moissan, Nernst, Abderhalden, Arrhenius, Dalton, R. Meyer, and Chandler.