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Huntington Collections in the History of Science & Technology HUNTINGTON COLLECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE p. 1 of 94 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 3 The Burndy Library 6 Astronomy 6 Civil Engineering 6 Chemistry 10 Color Theory 10 Electricity and Magnetism 10 Geography and Geology 14 Japanese Science 15 Light and Photography 16 Mathematics 18 Medicine and Biology 18 Optics 19 Physics 19 Telegraphy, Telephony, and Sound 21 Burndy Library Manuscript Collections Across Multiple Subjects 22 Miscellaneous Small Collections 25 Monographic Collections 27 Serials 33 Original Huntington Library Materials 34 Mt. Wilson Collection from the Carnegie Institute of Washington 34 Aerospace 43 Astronomy 45 Biology, Botany, and Natural Science 46 Chemistry 50 Civil Engineering and Surveying 51 Geology, Mining, and Petroleum Engineering 56 Mathematics 58 Medicine 58 Physics 61 Medieval Manuscripts 62 Related Items in Other Subjects 65 Printed Works 88 Guide last updated 10/2014 p. 2 of 94 INTRODUCTION The Huntington Library’s history of science collection is one of the largest in North America. It includes a wealth of material on the western practices of science, medicine, and technology, with strengths in a variety of subdisciplines. For example, incunables in the history of science and medicine are drawn from the Huntington’s larger corpus of incunabula, the second-largest such collection in the United States. Other highlights include the Burndy Library, which is of the highest caliber for printed works and archives related to electricity and magnetism, mathematics, physics, and civil engineering. The body of material related to Isaac Newton, formed primarily by the Babson Newton Collection, includes important manuscripts in and printed volumes annotated by the natural philosopher’s hand. The Francis Bacon Library is the world’s largest collection of material concerning the philosopher and statesman. The Mohr Darwin Collection comprises over 1,600 books, caricatures, engravings and photographs by and about Charles Darwin. Additionally, the Huntington holds the archives of Mount Wilson Observatory, which spans the founding of the institution to its livelihood through the 1960s. It also includes the rare books on astronomy which were previously in the Observatory's library. Our books, photographs, pamphlets and other ephemera related to U.S. civil engineering is almost certainly the world’s finest collection. And items on permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association encompass early medical incunables through twentieth-century American medicine, with particular emphasis on the practice of medicine in Southern California. This guide serves as a signpost for researchers interested in the specifics of the Huntington’s collections in the history of science, technology and medicine. Its current incarnation divides material between one of two broad categories: The Burndy Library and Older Huntington Materials; within these respective designations, the material is then sorted by subject. Most of these headings are classic subfields in the history of science, whether physics, biology or astronomy. Others cut across disciplines, including color theory and the broader designation “Japanese science.” Throughout the guide we emphasize manuscripts and archives over printed works, as many of the latter appear in the Huntington's online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org). This guide is not intended to serve as a substitute for actual detailed container lists or inventories of collections. There are no folder-level or item-level inventories herein, nor extensive details about individual collections. However, these are available via other sources. The first of these is the Huntington’s online catalog, which contains several hundred item-level descriptions of manuscripts, and many tens of thousands of records of printed works. The second source, exclusively for manuscript material, is the Online Archive of California (OAC), at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Huntington+Library. Over 250 collections have digital finding aids available on the OAC, out of the Huntington's approximately 1,800 manuscript collections. Legacy finding aids (i.e., those not born digitally) also exist in paper form. A number of these can be viewed as PDFs on the Huntington Digital Library website (www.hdl.huntington.org), others can be paged in person from the Huntington’s Ahmanson Reading Room. Please direct any inquiries regarding the history of science collections to Daniel Lewis, the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science, Medicine & Technology ([email protected]) or Melissa Lo, the Dibner Assistant Curator of Science and Technology ([email protected]). Formatting of Individual Entries Collection name and collection starting and ending bulk dates if available. Collection size (# of pieces, # of boxes, or # of items). p. 3 of 94 Whether or not a finding aid exists and in what format. If a finding aid is in digital format, please click on the link provided or visit the Huntington Digital Library (http://hdl.huntington.org/), the Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), or the Huntington online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org/). Description of the collection. Source of the collection and date acquired (if available). How to search the Online Catalog The Huntington's online catalog (http://catalog.huntington.org) contains the vast majority of the institution's printed materials, approaching one million items. The majority of the catalog entries are for rare and general reference books. To a lesser extent, records for manuscript collections and single-items are also described in the online catalog. Items Currently on Public Display The Huntington Library's permanent exhibition, Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, highlights four areas of scientific history: astronomy, natural history, medicine and light. The exhibition was designed to illustrate the beauty of science in a historical context—the elegant breakthroughs, the remarkable discoveries, and the fascinating people and stories behind them. Each gallery focuses on the changing role of science over time, particularly the astonishing leaps in imagination made by scientists over the years and the importance of written works in communicating those ideas. Items on display represent centuries of thought, showing how knowledge has become more refined over time. The exhibit was designed by the Huntington Library's exhibition developer Karina White and Berkeley-based design firm Gordon Chun Design. In 2008 the exhibition won the American Association of Museums' Grand Prize, for Excellence in Exhibitions—their highest award. p. 4 of 94 THE BURNDY LIBRARY The Burndy Library was founded in 1941 to house the growing collection of Bern Dibner, an electrical engineer who developed a passion for collecting materials in the history of science and technology. The collection currently consists of 67,000 volumes: 47,000 rare books and journals, and approximately 20,000 reference works. In addition to the books, the Library also holds approximately 2,000 linear feet of non- monographic material: manuscript collections, bound manuscripts, photograph collections, and many tens of thousands of offprints. Bern Dibner was an early pioneer in electrical connector technology, and founded the Burndy Corporation in 1924. The Burndy Library was located for many years in Norwalk, Connecticut, near the Burndy Corporation's headquarters. In 1992 it moved to MIT, where it was housed in a leased campus building for fifteen years. It remained privately owned, despite its presence on the campus, and was funded on an annual basis by the Dibner family. Beginning in 2004, the family began a search for a new home, in anticipation of the forthcoming end of the lease in 2007. After a process involving 16 national finalists, the Huntington Library was selected as the most appropriate home for the materials, and the Library arrived at the Huntington from MIT in November of 2006. The Burndy owes its particular character both to the interests of its founder as well as other donors, librarians and curators who have played a role in the development of the library. During the MIT years, the collection more than doubled in size, due to a very active acquisitions program. The journal collections in particular remain a great strength of the library, as they include a number of obscure but important titles in the field, many of which have never been (and may never be) available digitally from JSTOR or other aggregators of electronic journals. Taken as a whole, the Burndy's holdings range from the thirteenth century up into the middle of the twentieth. Mathematics, physics and electricity are the collection's three greatest strengths, but there is much heterogeneity across the collection in other areas, many of which are delineated below. The holdings have proven to be extraordinarily complementary to the Huntington's non-Burndy materials in the history of science. For instance, the Burndy avoided collecting anything in the history of medicine, primarily due to the nearly unrivaled collections at the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School, just blocks from the Burndy in its New England location. However, the Huntington's extant history of medicine holdings – consisting primarily of the rare book collections from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, which came to us in the 1980s -- are very substantial, and are poised to become even more important in the coming years. Comment on Brandeis and Smithsonian: It should be noted that some of the materials Dibner collected are currently held by Brandeis University and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1974, one quarter of the Burndy Library was donated to the Smithsonian in order to form a research center for the History of Science at the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian was given the Heralds of Science collection, which is a collection of 200 books thought by Bern Dibner to be instrumental in the development of science as we know it. Though the Smithsonian currently has these books as Dibner organized them, the Huntington has early editions of most of the books in Dibner's list. The Smithsonian has cataloged the books and manuscripts from the Burndy Library both in OCLC and in their catalog, SIRIS.
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