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Home > Research Help > History of Science > Books
This page lists catalogs, web sites, and other sources to help with finding books, especially old books, from all over the world. See also the Department of Special Collections and Rare Books on A Level. Most of the resources in History of Medicine are located in the Historical Collection of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Welch Medicial Library. Collections include journals, monographs, and rare books and manuscripts. For further information contact the librarian, Christine Ruggere, 410-955-3159. We have many more than what's listed! Please search the library catalog or ask a librarian for more help.
Tips for getting started: - Use a bibliography. To find them, go to the library catalog. Put the word "bibliography" in as a subject keyword, and put a word in as a title keyword or author keyword, such as "ecology" or "helmoltz."
- Go to Special Collections on A Level. Browse their reference shelves to see what kinds of lists of materials they have, and ask them to help you find others. (Several of their reference sets are on the chart, below.)
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| | | | | | Academie Nationale de Medecine | All |
It currently holds 400 000 volumes, with 800 manuscripts et 113 incunabula, as well as extensive collections of archives and manuscripts.
| Academie Nationale de Medecine (English version) | Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque Nationale
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Before 1959 | The entire catalogue of France's National Library is now online. (The site is only in French.)
| Bibliothèque Nationale de France (click "reconnect") [French only]
Z 927 .P2 (D Level) | | British Library | All | The British Library receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. The collection includes 150 million items, in most known languages. There are manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, stamps and related items, music scores, and patents. The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to the latest CD, DVD and minidisc recordings. | British Library | British Museum
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General Catalogue of Printed Books of the British Museum | All
Before 1955 | The Museum holds 350,000 books, offprints, pamphlets, and many periodical publications. The link will take you to the information page for the Paul Hamlyn Library (puboic), the Museum's Central Library, and the Museum Archives, which document the history of the Museum. The British Museum no longer holds the national collections of printed books, manuscripts, and journals. Contact the British Library instead for those.
| British Museum
Z921.B86 1959 QUARTO
Gen Ref, M Level | Early English Books Online | Before 1700 | Gives information about books published in England until 1700. | | | European Library | All | This is a link to the digital resources of the National Libraries of Europe. It offers access to and free searching of the resources (books, music, journals, maps, and more, both digital and non-digital) of the 40+ national libraries of Europe. You can search by country, by subject, or by theme (e.g., portraits, children's literature, music collections). | European Library | ISIS Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-1965 (that is, published during those years)
and ISIS Cumulative Bibliography, 1966-1975 and ISIS Cumulative Bibliography, 1976-1985 | Through the 16th century
| The six volumes are divided as personalities, institutions, subjects, pre-history, the Middle Ages, 15th-16th centuries, and author index.
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Two volumes divided as personalities, institutions, subjects, periods, and civilations
and Two volumes divided the same way, with the substitution of the word "persons" for "personalities" | Q2 .I81 1971
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Q2 .I82 1980
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Q2 .I83 1989
Sci Ref | LibWeb
| All | Libweb lists home pages of “real world” libraries in more than 135 countries. Updated daily. | LibWeb | | National Union Catalogue | Before 1956 | This is an index of books printed before 1956, which are held in libraries in the United States. The index includes books from Europe and Latin America.
| Z881 .A1 .C28 Quarto
On B Level, facing the back wall, after call numbers ML - MT | Biographisch-Literarisches Handwortenbuch ...("Poggendorff") | Before 1857 and through 1962. With v. 7, the series is subdivided into two parts: v. 7a for scientists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1932-53; and v. 7b for scientists from other countries, 1932-62. | Nicknamed for Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796 - 1877), this set has bibliographies and "remains the standard and indispensable work for information about the life and works of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and other scientists of all nations."
[Oak Knoll Press web site]. | Q10 .P4
Sci Ref | | Pure and Applied Science Books | 1876-1982 | Over 220,000 entries representing ~56,000 Library of Congress subject headings. Covers all disciplines of science and technology, including engineering, agriculture, and domestic arts. Also contains at least 5,000 titles published before 1876. | Q220 .P89
Sci Ref | Vatican Library
(Biblioteca Apostoliana Vaticana) | All | The Vatican Library has an online catalogue that can be searched, in English and Italian. There are also links to "Treasures of the Library" (in English) and "Vatican Secret Archives" (in Italian).
| Vatican Library | Western European Library Catalogs on the Internet
| All | This list of library catalogs is maintained by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). | Western European Library Catalogs on the Internet
| | WorldCat | All | The catalog of the holdings of research libraries in North America and many overseas libraries. It includes materials as old as medieval manuscripts. | |
The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology's library (Burndy Library) has put several books online: Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery (B. Dibner, 1964)
The Atlantic Cable (B. Dibner, 1959)
Commentary on the Effects of Electricity on Muscular Motion (L. Galvani, 1953)
Kodo Zoroku Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper (M. Tsuna, 1983)
Roemer and the First Determination of the Velocity of Light (I.B. Cohen, 1944) The Eisenhower Library's Fluid Mechanics Classics Library contains the full text of - Milne Thomson's Theoretical Hydrodynamics
- Monin and Yaglom's Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence (vols. 1 and 2)
- Tennekes and Lumley's First Course in Turbulence
Last revised: September 21, 2007
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