Highlights

Out of the total of about 3600 titles in the library almost 600 can be considered of importance. About 100 of these books are particularly rare and/or valuable often reporting early advances in the basic sciences and astronomy. As a glimpse of these highlights of the collection ten books are presented here more closely.

BIRINGUCCIO, Vannoccio
(1480-1539)
BiringuccioDe la pirotechnica. Venice: Venturino Rossinello for Curzio Navò & Fratelli, 1540.		 BOETHIUS, Anicius(480–524 or 525)
Boethius
Incipiunt duo libri de Arithmetica Venice 1488.
BOREL, Pierre (Petrus)
(1620-1689)
Borel

De vera telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia- Observationum microcospicarum centuria. The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1655.     		 BOYLE, Robert
(1627-1691)
Boyle
The sceptical chymist: or chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes. London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, 1661.    
COPERNICUS, Nicolaus
(1473-1543)
Copernicus 
De revolutionibus orbis coelestium. Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543  
 DARWIN, Charles
(1809-1882)
Borel
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured
Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859  
GALILEI, Galileo
(1564-1642)
Galilei
Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610.  		 NEWTON, Isaac
(1643-1727) Newton
Philosophiea naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society (at the expense of Edmond Halley); 1687  
STENO, Nicolaus
(1638-1686)
Steno
De Solido intra Solidum Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodromus. Florence, Typographia sub signa Stellae, 1669.    
Zurlauben
Tableaux de la Suisse ou Voyage pittoresque fait dans les XIII cantons du Corps Helvetique,
Representant les divers Phenomenes que la Nature y rassemble, & les beautes dont l'Art les a enrichis.  Paris 1784-1786
 
   
     
   
   

 
 

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