The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at 25 years: celebrating a collector's vision and its legacy
Subtitle: Icons of understanding : celebrating Bern Dibner's Heralds of science
By: by Owen Gingerich : Dibner Library lecture ; with an essay by Roger Gaskell and an introduction by Ronald S. Brashear.
Contributors: Gaskell, Roger.
Series: Dibner Library lecture
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Dibner, Bern.; Dibner Library.; Libraries -- Washington (D.C.) -- Special collections -- Science -- Early works to 1800.; Scientific literature -- Collectors and collecting.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Table of contents: title: From collector to reader : Bern Dibner and history of science collections / Roger Gaskell; title: Icons of understanding : celebrating Bern Dibner's Heralds of science / Owen Gingerich.