This Section of ELibM is devoted to the electronic publication of mathematical works of enduring interest. Among these are the collected works of distinguished mathematicians, as well as other classical works in selected editions.
The works in this Section are published under the auspices of the Electronic Publishing Committee of the EMS and the editions have been prepared by recognized mathematicians or historians.
Scientific Papers
Durham University Observatory Manuscripts
Astronomical and meteorological records (mainly collected at Durham Observatory, founded 1839)
Thomas Wright Manuscripts
Thomas Wright (1711-1786) of Byers Green, Co Durham, astronomer, architect and antiquary
Thomas Wrightiana
Items related to Thomas Wright (1711-1786) of Byers Green, Co Durham, astronomer, architect and antiquary
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Astronomy Library
Collections, Resources, and Facilities
Electronic journals and resources
Astronomy Department Web Pages
About the Library
Other special items in our collection
Publications of the W & S Observatory
W & S Observatory Reprints
Best of the Web
This collection was most likely donated to the Case Archive of Contemporary Science and Technology. Parts of it are the collection of researcher John Tascher who wrote an essay on the society for which he received the Goddard Award for 1964. Acquisition information unknown.
Arrangement and description of the Cleveland Rocket Society Collection
The collection consists of two types of materials, those which were generated by the society during the years it existed ca. 1934-1938; and that material generated by John Tascher as he researched the society 1963-64. The collection is arranged by this division in the origins of the material and thus there are two series:
An unusually fine collection of manuscripts representing primarily British and American literary, political, and historical figures has been received from a number of donors. These include letters from Mms. de Sévigné, Voltaire, George III, Virginia Woolf, Sherwood Anderson, and John Steinbeck
All are invited to visit the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. The Library is open to the public, free of charge. No credentials or letters of recommendation are required for visiting or using the Library's resources. Visitors coming from a long distance or for extended stays, or those needing special assistance or consultation with staff members, are encouraged to write or call in advance.
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, one of the largest medical libraries in the world, serves the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston Medical Library and the Massachusetts Medical Society. The Countway Library holds more than 630,000 volumes, subscribes to 3,500 current journal titles and houses over 10,000 non-current biomedical journal titles. The library also houses one of the world's leading medical history collections, and provides access to many electronic information resources.
Contemporary scientific archives are at the crossroads of numerous questions on the changing face of the written heritage. Because of the development of data-processing, rough copies from scientific research, and preparatory documents for presenting results are today rarely kept. The same applies to written correspondence between researchers, which now takes place by electronic mail. The real path followed by research work, with its trial and error, its question marks, and its hesitations is therefore difficult to reconstruct. One of the only documents to have escaped from this covering over of tracks is the laboratory notebook. Personal and unique through the way it is written and through its contents, the laboratory notebook makes it possible to trace the path followed by scientific work. These notebooks and their use in contemporary physics are currently the subject of research by Odile Welfelé, conservatrice en chef du Patrimoine aux Archives nationales de France and in charge of a "mission des archives" at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). The CNRS is the biggest organization for the management of science in France. This work was done as part of the ARISC Research Program (ARchives Issues des Sciences Contemporaines - Archives from Contemporary Sciences Program) supported by the CNRS and by the Ministry of Culture. Photographies and inquiries are part of this program. An exhibition will present photos of physicists in their laboratories and of chosen pages of their notebooks in december 1998 at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, la Villette, Paris.
The first attempt to organize a free-standing library of medical literature in Boston was made by Doctors John Collins Warren and James Jackson in 1805, but the independence of this Boston Medical Library was short-lived. Although catalogs of its books and journals were published, the collections were absorbed by the Boston Athenaeum in 1826.
