Container List

Collection gems (extracted 8/75)

Sewall, Stephen, An Oration Delivered at the Funeral of the Hon. John Winthrop. Boston, 1779.

Winthrop, James.

Acta Eruditorium. reviews of Newton, Leibniz, etc. n.d.

Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795; president of Yale)

Atwater, Noah, (senior tutor at Yale)

Copernicus, Nicolaus. Copy of engraving, 1654.

Pierce, Benjamin. (Harvard Math. Prof., fl. 1850's)

Bowditch, Nathaniel

Perkins, George R. ALS Perkins to N. Bowditch. Boston, 1838.

Hassler, Ferdinand.

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)

Young, C.A. (Dartmouth) ALS Young to S. Newcomb 1876

Kelvin (Lord) [Sir William Thomas]. AI. C.W. Siemens / with kind regards/ W.T. / Southampton Aug. 27, 1882.

Unidentified Ms found by FEB in purchased copy of Davidis Gregorii... Astronomiae.... Geneva, 1726.

American Academy of Sciences. Founding articles, Aug 15, 1865.

Boyle, R.O. Several letters to/from. 1679-85.

The First Book of Euclid's Elements

Misc photocopies of 18 th c printed matter.

Rouse-Ball, W. W. Newton's Principles.

Russell, Bertrand. Application card to History of Science Society. Approved 4/20/27 by FEB.

Poincare, Excerpts from address on the future of mathematics. 1908.

Holden, Edwards. (Lick Observatory) Memorandum on the Preparation of a Catalogue from the Washington Zones, 1846-50. Lick Obs., 1896.

Erick, John Francis (1791 -).Biographical article (fragment).

Lecat, Maurice (C. E. Louvain) Business card w/annot. 1924

Cajori, Florian (univ. of Calif., Berkeley) A Century of American Geodesy HSS mtg, Durham, 1929.

Eliot, C. W., TLS 9/28/20 CWE (Mainc) to FEB re: B.Pierce.

Whitmore, James ALS 2/22/20 JW (New Haven) to FEB ve: B. Pierce.

Johnson (Senator) Ms draft of statement re: Naval observatory deterioration of standards [1948?]Fragment.

de Bois-Raymond, Paul. Extract of an address at Tubingen 1874.

Colonial Science: general

Colonial Science: general

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re:

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re:

FEB notes and drafts for articles (AMs/TMs) re: early science at Yale and Columbia (King's College)

Matter re: Isaac Greenwood, 18th c Harvard mathematician

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re: Newtonian epoch of colonial science: mathematics from 1636-1738.FEB article, The Newtonian Epoch in the American Colonies

FEB note (AMs/TMs) re: Winthrop study of the transits of Mercury and Venus (1740-1769)

Matter re: Count Rumford (1753-1814),American Scientist

FEB notes (AMs) re:

Colonial Science: general

Matter re: Cadwallader Colden (1769-1834), biographer and friend of Robert Fulton

Matter re: science in New York colony page from New York Chronical (1769)diagram of Venus' transit.

Bowdoin, James. ALS (1764)describing and illustrating telescope improvements

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re: colonial Science, particularly Harvard's role.

Articles re: Jeremiah Horrox (1619-1641)minister and astronomer.

Colonial science: matter re: Thomas Jefferson

Misc. articles about Jefferson, including FEB's, Thomas Jefferson, the Scientist.

a) Transcriptions and photostats of some Jefferson letters

b) FEB notes (AMs) re: Jefferson

c) FEB correspondence re:

* Copy of a Jefferson portrait

Colonial Science: matter re: George Washington

Misc. articles, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, reproductions of pictures

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re: Washington as a scientist.

Matter re: the city of Washington

Journal of American History 4: 1 (1910)

Colonial Science: matter re: Benjamin Franklin

Misc. articles, photostats of letters, photos of Franklin's scientific equipment, FEB correspondence re: acquisition of Franklin materials.

Colonial Science: matter re: Massachusetts history

Misc. articles & booklets

a) Lodge, H.C. The Pilgrims of Plymouths. (1921)

b) Towne, E.C. Studies in Pilgrim History (1905)

Misc. articles & clippings re: Harvard

a) Matter re: Joseph Lovering (1813-1892), American Scientist.

b) Boston & Science

Colonial Science: John Winthrop (1714-1779) and the colonial Newtonists

Matter re: FEB's article, The Royal Society of London & its Influence upon Scientific Thought in the American Colonies.

Matter re: a science text (AMs) written by Chas. Morton (Colonial Harvard Scientist)

a) FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re: early Harvard tutor

b) Matter re: celestial almanacs: notes and lists.

FEB transcription (AMs/TMs) of earliest know catalogue of Harvard library, 1764

FEB correspondence re: acquisition of Winthrop

Colonial Science: John Winthrop and the colonial Newtonists

FEB drafts (AMs/TMs) of various books & articles re: John Winthrop & David Rittenhos

FEB drafts (AMs/TMs) of America's First Astronomer & the Science of his period, J.W. (1714-1779).

FEB draft (AMs) of History of Astronomy in America

FEB drafts (TMs) of Medical Men in Mathematics, Astronomy, & Physics.

a) Misc. articles re: J.W.

b) transcription of J.W.'s, Lecture on Earthquake

a) correspondence re: an FEB Winthrop article primarily critiques

b) misc. correspondence W/ Phi Beta Kappa

c) photos of scientific instruments

FEB notes re: article, Brown University & Benjamin West (Colonial astronemer).

Colonial Science: John Winthrop & the colonial Newtons

Photostats of printed J.W. matter.

Photostats of printed J.W. matter.

Articles & notes re: colonial science (esp. J.W.), Puritans.

Matter re: J.W. & colonial science

* a) J.W. AMss.

b) FEB notes

a) FEB notes (AMs/TMs) re:

b) Misc. articles re: J.W., early colonial chemists medicine.

c) articles (TMs) by C.A. Browne re: J.W.

* d) Observations of the solar eclipse of Sept. 17 1811by John Fran.

Colonial Science: John Winthrop & the Colonial Newtonists

Photostats:

FEB drafts (TMss) of The History of Astronomy in America: 1621-1783

FEB drafts (AMs/TMs) of various works be colonial science, esp. JW

FEB drafts (AMs/TMs) of article, History of Harvard Observatory. Other drafts of articles are: modern science, books review;,

Matter re: David Ritten house:

Matter re: David Ritten house (1732-96):

Colonial Science: John Winthrop & The Colonial Newtonists John Winthrops LL.D: 1714-1779. Professor of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy, Harvard College, 1738-1779. Folio scrapbook compiled by FEB (1932),containing articles, photos, photostats related to JW.

Isaac Newton: the influence of the Principia

a) Matter re: FEB's article on James Logan, colonial mathematician & the first to bring Newton's Principia to the colonies.

b) Matter re: David Rittenhouse & John Ewing.

Matter re: FEB's attempts to determine provenance of an annotated copy of the Principia, located at William & Mary. Primarily correspondence.

a) Results of FEB's research re: the William & Mary Principia in the form of notes for lectures.

b) Matter re: location of all copies of Principia in America.

Matter re: FEB's tracking down of an Australian copy of the Principia. Correspondence & Photostats.

Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Bicentenary (of his Death) 1927:

FEB drafts (AMs/TMs) of lecture delivered at bicentenary: John Winthrop: America's First Astronomer & the First Critical disciple of Sir Isaac Newton in the Colonies.

Matter re: Bicentenary

FEB correspondence re: Bicentenary, re:

FEB correspondence w/ the Williams & Wilkins Company, publishers of FEB's edited work, Sir Isaac Newton, stemming from the bicentenary.

a) FEB correspondence primarily re: acquisition of Newton material.

* b) reprint of Newton etching, 1831.

Isaac Newton & his contemporaries

Matter re: Newton Tercentenary (of his birth) celebrated by Royal Society in 1946, &attended by FEB.

FEB notes (AMs/TMs) on Newtonian topics, perhaps from Tercentenary.

Matter re: correspondence of Newton and Edmond Halley, compiled by Eugene Fairfield MacPike. Bibliography, articles, (TMs), and photostats of letters.

Matter re: Mss of Alexander M. Fisher's Study of Gravitation at Yale College, 1815-1822.

a) FEB notes (AMs) re: Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chemist (1661, 1680 editions).

b) book lists: Newton & Kepler works. FEB correspondence w/ dealers

c) short reviews of FEB's compilation of Newton portraits

d) FEB correspondence re: H. W. Robinson's The Diary of Robert Hooke... 1672-1680,primarily btwn FEB and Eugene F. MacPike

e) FEB notes (AMs) re: Newton's early years

f) FEB draft of letter describing his Newton Collection (1960)

Misc. photostats of:

Isaac Newton and his forbears

Matter re: FEB's proposal for translation of S. I. Vavilov's biography of Isaac Newton, including typed copy of portion of that translation

Misc. matter re: Newton (also Galileo, Kepler, Bacon)

* Selection of 18th, 19th, & 20th century encycloped articles re: Newton

Matter re: Edmond Halley

Matter re: Roger Bacon

Articles (TMs) by Raymond J. Seeger

Draft (TMs) of Johan Kepler (1571-1630), a Tercentenary Commemoration of his Life & Work. A series of papers prepared under the auspices of the History of Science Society.

Bibliography of J. Kepler on index cards

Misc. matter

Isaac Newton & the History of Science

Isaac Newton & the History of Science

Isaac Newton & the History of Science

Isaac Newton and Science in the 17th & 18th century

Matter re: FEB's bibliographical projects re: Newton & the Principia.

Drafts (AMs/TMs) of FEB's address: Henry Zeitlinger (1871-1860) & Newton's Library.

Misc. articles re: Newton including fascimile of a Philosophical Transactions article by Newton (1672), New Theory about Light & Colors

Photostats of misc. Newton Mss

Matter re: historical eclipses

McCollex, Grant. The Seventeenth Century Doctrine of a Plurality of Worlds. (TMs).

Isaac Newton: misc.

Photostats of Mss by & about Newton

Photostats of misc. Mss, including:

FEB articles

Newton bibliography

Isaac Newton / Albert Einstein

Misc. Newton matter, primarily re: Newton's home

Photostats of Newton Mss re: music

Photostats of Newton's optical lectures

Newton portrait negatives

Einstein portraits

Albert Einstein

a) FEB correspondence re: proposed relativity bibliography

Matter re: theory of relativity

Albert Einstein

Misc Matter re: Einstein & Abbe G Le Maitre (mentor of the Big Bang theory of the creation of universe)

Thomas Jefferson Jackson See (Navy astronomer)

a) biographical sketch of T.J.J. See (printing)

b) correspondence btwn T.J.J. See and John Nelson Stockwell (astronomer, 1832-1920) apparently re: See's proposed biography of Stockwell. correspondence continues after latter's death with other Stockwell family members (E.A. and J.W.) re: the project, copy of finished product: Histories Notice of John Nelson Stockwell of Cleveland (192-)

a) Misc. clippings re: T.J.J. See & the Naval Observatory at Mare Island.

b) Certificate given to See by the Accademia di Scienze Lettere ed Arti de'Zelanti, 1915.

a) T.J.J. See draft of biographical notice of J.N. Stockwell.

b) article re: an eclipse by Stockwell.

a) clippings re: T.J.J. See

b) photo of Newton medal awarded to See

Portraits of T.J.J. See

a) TLS (8 Sept 1942)T.J.J. See to a Navy admiral requesting assignment to special post as an advisor in science for Navy General Board.

b) T.J.J. See notes (AMs) on Cosmical mechanics

c) TLS (18 Feb 1931)TJJ See to Prof. Adams, director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, re: See's challenge to Einstein's theory of relativity

d) T.J.J. See drafts of comet study

T.J.J. See: printed articles

Reprints of T.J.J. See article series, New Theory of the Aether.

Bound edition of the above.

Reprints of various T.J.J. See articles re: astronomy

T.J.J. See: printed articles

T.J.J. See

a) Brief Biographical Notice of T.J.J. See (TMs)

b) T.J.J. See exams (AMs) from Navy training.

c) List of published papers by T.J.J. See (1889-1902).

T. J. J. See article drafts (TMs)

T. J. J. See biographical matter

Photographic history of T.J.J., See & family

T. J. J. See: photos Framed photos (or prints) of:

T. J. J. See: photos

photos, prints, maps, charts of geological phenomena

Photos & prints of astronomical equipment & phenomena.

Photos & prints of scientists, including: Charles Darwin, Champ Clark, George H. Darwin, * J. N. Stockwell (1868),Cadwallader Coldon, William Herschel, Isaac Barrow, Edmond Halley, A. A. Michelson, various See family members.

Photos continued: * Richard Brayar, * Stanford graduates of 1900, * Addie L. Hamilton & Bertha Mary shaw (class of 1901), Cornelius Bol, Franklin Wolff, Edwin Hubble, Léon Foucault, Isaac Newton Frederick E. Wright, Ainsworth R. Spoffor

Prints of Copernicus

Prints of science-related works of art.

T.J.J. See: printed articles

Reprints of T.J.J. See astronomy articles

Letters to T.J.J. See re: Webb's biography (see B29-F3)

T.J.J. See & Kenneth Albert

Record of court martial proceeding (TMs) re: Kenneth Albert.

correspondence: 1924

correspondence: 1925

correspondence: 1926

T.J.J. See: correspondence

correspondence from See to W. L. Webb, author of Brief Biography & Popular Account of the Unparalleled Discoveries of T.J.J. See. Autumn 1913 - Summer 1914.

Lick Observatory

Pamphlet, magazine descriptions & histories of Lick Observatory

Newspaper clippings re: Lick Obs.

Publications & programs of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (centered at Lick Obs.,)

Lick Observatory

Photos & printed matter re: Lick Obs. astronomer

a) Photos of Lick Obs.

b) Astronomical photos

a) Publications re: Lick Obs.

b) Publications by Lick Obs. astronomers

Matter re: American Astronomical Society

FEB drafts (TMs) of A Phantasy: Isaac Newton's visit to Lick Observatory (the City of Seven Domes).

FEB correspondence re: Lick Obs. and its astronomers.

Lick Observatory

FEB correspondence with Nicholas u. Mayall, Lick Obs. astronomer. Also articles by, and newspaper clippings about, Mayall.

Ditto re: Charles Donald Shane, Lick Obs. astronome

Ditto re: Joel Stebbins, Lick Obs. astronomer

Ditto re: Ferdinand J. Neubauer, Lick Obs. astronomer

Brief biographical sketches and obituaries re: Lick Obs. astronomers

Pamphlets re: other observatories

FEB and contemporary science

Misc. FEB notes (AMs) and articles re: astronom

FEB notes, articles, photos re: spiral nubulae

Matter re: the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Assn

Photos of Scientists, including: George Sarton, Henry Lerew, R.C. Archibald, Edgar F. Smith, Charles Albert Brown, W. Carl Rufus, George Ellery Hale

Matter re: George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), American scientist

Misc. scientist photos, contemporary & historical.

Matter re: William Bond & the chronometer

FEB and contemporary science

Matter re: FEB's attempt to prepare a biographical sketch of Dr. John L. E. Dreyer, historian of astronomy (f 1926).

Matter re: quaternary celebration of Copernicus' death (1943).Particulary FEB's correspondence w/ various involved organizations

a) FEB correspondence with C. K. Bolton of the Library of Boston Atheneum

b) Matter re: FEB's showing of Newton art at Stanford Art Gallery (1950)

c) Clippings of Royce Brier articles re: Soviet Union

d) Bulletin of the Univ. of Minnesota

e) List of History of Science Society members

f) Misc. FEB notes

Note cards evidently used to describe scientific equipment in an exhibit

* Computation of the orbit of a comet, 1897by W. J. Hussey.

Misc. clippings re: modern scientific discoveries

FEB and Contemporary Science

Journal articles re: the Royal Society

Drafts (TMs) of The Exponential Theory of Gravitation by A. J. Schneiderov. Correspondence btwn Schneiderov and FEB re: submission of article to the American Philosophical Society

Matter re: Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist

Matter re: Harry Elmer Parnes, scientist

Matter re: American Astronomical Society

FEB and Contemporary Science

FEB drafts of reports presented to a History of Science Society meeting (1923.)Related journal articles. Correspondence with Society.

FEB correspondence with the Society re: his proposal for a scientific institute sponsored

Misc. articles re: history of Science

FEB notes, articles, & correspondence re: astronomical spirals

Dr. Wartensleben, A Basal Error in Chemical Practice (TMs).

Articles (TMs)

a) Matter re: 1957Gravity Research Fndn. Awards for essays on gravity.

b) Correspondence & articles (TMss) on gravity

Matter re: International Astronomical Union

Misc. matter re: modern astronomy

FEB and Contemporary Science

Matter re: American Assn. for the Advancement of Science (of which FEB was assistant secretary in the 1920's)

FEB and Contemporary Science

Papers of George k. Lawton (astronomer), including charts of orbit of satellites.

FEB and Contemporary Science

Matter re: FEB's article, History Activities of the USSR Academy of Sciences During the Past Twenty-Five Years, Science 99 (1944)

FEB notes articles re: history of Harvard

a) FEB book reviews (AMs)

b) FEB notes (AMs)

FEB drafts (TMs): Sir William Herschel (1738-1822).

FEB drafts (AMS):

FEB draft (AMs) of Wilhelm Ostwold, Scientist Philosopher (1911).also magazine articles other matter re: the same.

FEB studies (AMs) of the history of cosmogony

FEB & Contemporary Science

Misc. science articles (reprints) re:

Stephen Alexander, Statement & exposition of Certain Harmonies of the Solar System (Washington, 1875)

Astronomical papers prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris & Nautical Almanac (Washington, 1912)

a) Obituaries re: Arthur Compton, physicist

b) Phi Beta kappa handbook

c) Clippings re: George Washington University

* a) Portrait of Denison Olmsted (1859)

* b) Address commemorating D. Olmstead (1852)

c) Misc., partial FEB notes

FEB & Contemporary Science

Obituaries re: W.W. Rouse Ball, English Mathamatician (1850-1925)

Misc. astronomy article reprints by

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1 (1900)

Matter re: Florian Cajori (astronomer), including article reprints re: Newton

FEB & Contemporary Science

FEB drafts & correspondence re: his reviews of

FEB notes & drafts (AMs) re: The Science Exhibit at the P.P.I. Exposition Illustrating the Progress of Science in the Last Decade.

FEB draft, of The History of Science & its bearing on Philosophy.

Matter re: a philosophy course:

Matter re: FEB's statistical study, The present status of the Teaching of the History of Science in our Universities, Colleges & Technical Schools.

Matter re: George Washington University midwinter convocation, 1928

Misc. news clippings

FEB & Contemporary Science

Matter re: FEB's Newton portfolio project

Matter re: display of FEB Newton collection at Stanford, 1962.

Matter re: the publication of Marco polo's travels in 1930's

Matter re: FEB's project involving a history of science mural

Matter re: Senate proposal for federal support of scientific research

FEB and Contemporary Science

Matter re: FEB's study The Present status of the Teaching of history in Science... (see also B48, F6-10)

Matter re: proposal for an institute for history of science & civilization

Misc. matter re: History of Science Society

FEB and Contemporary Science

a) Article photostats re: some Newton letters.

b) FEB, The Portrait Medals of Sir Isaac Newton

c) Reprint of Nature (1927)article series re: Newton

Reprints of 40 FEB articles & reviews, many in multiple copies. Broad range of topics in colonial and modern science

FEB and Contemporary Science

Matter re: A.S. Eddington, astronomer.

a) Article re: Halley's comey

b) Robbins, Frank. The Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.

Matter re: John Couch Adams, 19th cent. astrom

Ritehey, G. W. L'Evolution de l'astrophographie et les grands telescopes de l'avener (1929)

Misc. matter re:

a) The practical observing of variable stars (1918 pamphlet)

b) William & Mary Historical Magazine, 1896, 192-issues.

FEB and Contemporary Science

Matter re: Sir James Jeans, astronomes

FEB and Contemporary Science

Card index: science & astronomy

Card index: Science & astronomy

Card index: library reference cards

Card index: A - Z

Card index: Brasch Collection

Card index: drafts of FEB's proposed catalogues of Stanford Newton collection.

Card index

Card index

FEB and the Library of Congress

Pamphlets & booklets re: LC

Matter re: Harriet Wheeler Pierson, friend of FEB at LC:

FEB & the Library of Congress

LC material (mid-1920s to mid-1940s):

* speech of Mr. Bell of Tennessee on the message of the President of the U.S. delivered in House of Representatives, Dec. 26, 1838.

Science Catalogues

Newton collection bills

Bills for items acquired by FEB for Newton collection, Includes

FEB correspondence

a) correspondence from Leon Campbell

b) Pamphlets & articles re: American Assn. of Variable Star Observers (Leon Campbell, President)

Matter re: Carnegie Institute

correspondence with Edgar F. Smith (1854-192-) prof. of chemistry at Univ. of Penn. Also clippings & articles about EFS.

correspondence re: the Edgar F. Smith collection in the history of chemistry, primarily from Eva V. armstrong (collection curator) and D. Walter Taggart (also associated with the collection)

FEB correspondence

correspondence (1909-30)with Florian Cajori, math. prof. at Colorado College & Berkeley.

correspondence (1921-1944)with Fernando Sanford, head of Stanford physics dept.

correspondence with medical doctors, including:

a) correspondence (1946-54)with T.J.J. See

* b) Photo of J.N. Stockwell with a letter from E.A. Stockwell to T.J.J. See. (see B26, F1)

correspondence (1935-56)with William D. Morgan, amateur astronomer & friend of FEB

FEB correspondence

Corres. (1930s - 1950s)with George Sarton; editor of Isis.

Corres. (1920s - 1930s)with R.C. Archiba prof. at Brown Univ. and fellow member of the History of Science Society.

Corres. (1920s - 1930s)with prof. Philip Fox, astronomer assoc. with Adler planetarium (Chicago).

Corres. with those whose surnames begin with letter N.

Corres. (1920s - 1940s)with Eugene F. MacPike member of History of Science Society.

Corres. (1940s - 1950s)with G. Findlay Shirras, prof. of economics, Univ. of Illinois.

FEB correspondence

Drafts of FEB biographical sketch of W.

Corres. with W. Carl Rufus

Misc. FEB Corres.

FEB correspondence

FEB correspondence

FEB correspondence

FEB correspondence

FEB correspondence

FEB correspondence

FEB Correspondence

FEB correspondence

Corres. (1927-8)

Corres. (1931)

FEB correspondence

Corres. (1938-41)

Corres. (1941)

FEB correspondence

Corres. (1939-42)

Corres. (1939-45)

FEB correspondence

Corres, (1910s-1940s)

Corres. (1910s-1920s)

Corres (1910s-1930s)with Lynn Thorndike historian at Columbia.

FEB Memorabilia

Misc. memorabilia

Photos:

Memorabilia re: England (esp. postcards)

* correspondence (1863, 1865, 1905, 1910)found by FEB in various commentaries on Newton's

FEB Memorabilia

College Catalogues: Harvard

College Catalogues: William & Mary Univ.

Studies in English Literature & Philology