Burndy Library

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Works:	3,513 works in 3,752 publications in 21 languages and 13,621 library holdings
Classifications:	qc517, 016.5

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Most widely held works about Burndy Library

Burndy Library in mitosis by Bern Dibner ( Book )
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Report for by Burndy Library ( Serial )
Fine printed books and manuscripts : including Americana by Manson & Woods International Inc Christie ( Book )
The Burndy Library : window on the history of science by Gordon D Friedlander ( Book )

News from the Burndy Library ( Serial )
Fine printed books and manuscripts : including Americana and duplicates from the Burndy Library by Manson & Woods International Inc Christie ( Book )
Inside the Burndy library : Bern Dibdner has built one of the world's great archives documenting the history of science and technology by I. Bernard Cohen ( Book )
Burndy Library "as my fathers planted before me ( Visual )
Heralds of science : as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library ( Book )
All in one lifetime : an address by Bern Dibner at the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco on May 8, 1983, on the award of the Sir Thomas More medal for activity in the history of science by Bern Dibner ( Book )
Burndy Library ( Visual )
Annual report by Burndy Library ( Serial )
Report for 1975 by Burndy Library ( Book )
Lunar rock on exhibition at the Burndy Library ( Book )
Burndy Library catalog by Burndy Library ( Book )
A unique library that chronicles dawn of science by Michael Olmert ( Book )
To America with love : Bern Dibner by Nina Streitfeld ( Book )
Bern Dibner ( Book )
Heralds of science by Bern Dibner ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Burndy Library

Heralds of science; as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library. With notes by Bern Dibner by Burndy Library ( Book )
3 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and held by 228 libraries worldwide

A letter from Galileo : Galileo, the innovator by Bern Dibner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1967 in English and held by 211 libraries worldwide

Heralds of science, as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library by Burndy Library ( Book )
5 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and held by 194 libraries worldwide

Burndy Library, founded to serve scholarship in the history of science and technology; a report made on the occasion of occupying its permanent building in April, 1964 by Burndy Library ( Book )
4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 72 libraries worldwide

A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy by John F. W Herschel ( Book )
2 editions published in 1831 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide

The alternate current transformer in theory and practice by J. A Fleming ( Book )
in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide

Outlines of physical geography by George W Fitch ( Book )
2 editions published in 1856 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide

Philosophie der Chemie by C. J. B Karsten ( Book )
2 editions published in 1843 in German and held by 52 libraries worldwide

Einführung in die maxwell'sche Theorie der Elektricität : mit einem einleitenden Abschnitte über das rechnen mit Vectorgrössen in der Physik by Aug Föppl ( Book )
3 editions published in 1894 in German and held by 49 libraries worldwide

Vorlesungen über die Dynamik discreter Massenpunkte by Hermann von Helmholtz ( Book )
4 editions published in 1898 in German and held by 47 libraries worldwide

Stokers and pokers, or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House by Francis Bond Head ( Book )
1 edition published in 1849 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide

Magnetical and meteorological observations at Lake Athabasca and Fort Simpson by J. H Lefroy ( Book )
2 editions published in 1855 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide

Galileo Galilei e suor Maria Celeste / per Antonio Favaro by Antonio Favaro ( Book )
1 edition published in 1891 in Italian and held by 37 libraries worldwide

The colloid and the crystal by Joseph Wood Krutch ( Book )
1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 33 libraries worldwide
Essay on snow flowers or frost crystals and the nature of life.

Die Mechanik der Wärme : in gesammelten Schriften by Julius Robert von Mayer ( Book )
1 edition published in 1867 in German and held by 33 libraries worldwide

Die dynamoelektrische Maschine : eine physikalische Beschreibung für den technischen Gebrauch by O Frölich ( Book )
1 edition published in 1886 in German and held by 31 libraries worldwide

Du calcul de l'effet des machines, ou, Considérations sur l'emploi des moteurs et sur leur évaluation : pour servir d'introduction a l'étude spéciale des machines by G Coriolis ( Book )
1 edition published in 1829 in French and held by 31 libraries worldwide

Éclairage a l'électricité : renseignements pratiques by Hippolyte Fontaine ( Book )
2 editions published in 1879 in French and held by 30 libraries worldwide

Leonardo da Vinci e la geologia by Giuseppe De Lorenzo ( Book )
1 edition published in 1920 in Italian and held by 29 libraries worldwide

Elementa physicæ : conscripta in usus academicos by Petrus van Musschenbroek ( Book )
3 editions published between 1734 and 1747 in 3 languages and held by 26 libraries worldwide

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Audience level: 0.82 (from 0.76 for Heralds of ... to 0.91 for Einführun ...)

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controlled identity Burndy Library <Cambridge, Mass.>

Burndy Library (Cambridge, Mass.)

Burndy Library, Norwalk, Conn.

Norwalk (Conn.). Burndy Engineering Company Library

Norwalk (Conn.). Burndy Library

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English (1,563)
German (669)
French (521)
Latin (452)
Italian (437)
Dutch (48)
Spanish (23)
Danish (18)
Swedish (11)
Portuguese (5)
Greek, Ancient (4)
Russian (4)
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Japanese (2)
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