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Early electrical machines; the experiments and apparatus of two enquiring centuries (1600 to 1800) that led to the triumphs of the electrical age.

Galvani-Volta; a controversy that led to the discovery of useful electricity.

Manuscripts of the Dibner collection in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Ten founding fathers of the electrical science.

Heralds of science, as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library. With notes by Bern Dibner.

A letter from Galileo : Galileo, the innovator / Bern Dibner. A long-lost letter from Galileo to Peiresc on a magnetic clock / Stillman Drake.

Luigi Galvani : an expanded version of a biography prepared for the forthcoming edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica : with a supplement reproducing three of the four original drawings illustrating the 1791 edition of De viribus electricitatis / by Bern Dibner.

Heralds of science : as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution / pref. and notes by Bern Dibner ; introd. by Robert P. Multhauf.

De la déviation des compas a bord des navires et du moyen de l'obtenir a l'aide du compas de déviations / par E. Dubois ...

Lectures of experimental philosophy : wherein the principles of mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments : with a description of the air-pump, and the several experiments thereon : of the condensing-engine; as also of the different species of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers : with several experiments to prove and explain Sir Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colours, as performed in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy / by J.T. Desaguliers, M.A.F.R.S. ; Illustrated with several curious copper plates suitable to each Subject. To which is added, a description of Mr. Rowley's Machine, called the orrery, which represents the Motion of the Moon about the Earth, Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System ; all carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr. Desaguliens.

Orontii Finaei Delphinatis, regii mathemat[ô] Lvtetiae professoris ac illustratoris, De re & praxi geometrica, Libri tres, figuris & demonstrationibus illustrati : Vbi de Quadrato geometrico, & virgis feu baculis mensoriis, nec non aliis cùm Mathjematicis, tum mechanicis.

Mémoire sur la découverte du satellite de Venus : & sur les nouvelles observations qui viennent d'être faites à ce sujet : lu à l'Académie royale des sciences le 2, mai 1761 / par M. Baudouin, conseiller au Grand Conseil.

Leonardo da Vinci, technologist : three essays / by Ladislao Reti and Bern Dibner.

The Victoria and the Triton.

Heralds of science, as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library