History of Science: Archives and libraries

General items

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the USA
• Inventory of Sources for History of Twentieth Century Physics
• STAMA - Science, Technology and Medicine Archives
  A special interest group of the Australian Society of Archivists

Individual archives and libraries / Local directories

• Ames, Iowa, USA
  • Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • Bentley Historical Library
    Including University Archives
• Athens, Georgia, USA
  • Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library
• Augsburg, Germany
  • Oettingen-Wallerstein-Sammlung of the University Library (in German)
    A very rich collection of books from the 16th to the 18th centuries, including also science and astronomy. This is a searchable database, partially including images of title pages and illustrations. Typing in astro% gives 417 hints. The books are mostly in Latin, German, and French. As an example an astronomical book from 1611 with digitized images of the title page and of an illustration is available here. Unfortunately, the WWW forms and instructions are written in German only. However, it is quiet easy to use the database following the examples.
• Australia
  • Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP)
• Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Milton S. Eisenhower Library
    • Map Collection
    • Special Collections
      • Rowland (Henry Augustus) 1848-1901, Papers (1793-1970) 8 Mar 1996: seems to be no longer available
        Including correspondence with some astronomers
• Basel, Switzerland
  • Handschriftenabteilung der UB Basel (in German)
• Berkeley, USA
  • Archives of the University of California
  • Earth Sciences & Map Library Home Page
  • Map Collection - Earth Sciences and Map Library Info
• Berlin, Germany
  • Bibliotheken in Berlin (in German)
  • Geheimes Staatsarchiv (in German)
    This is the archive for documents from Prussia. It contains also material concerning science in Prussia.
    Humboldt-Universität, Zweigbibliothek Wissenschaftsgeschichte (in German)

    Humboldt-Universität, Universitätsarchiv (in German)
• Berne, Switzerland
  • Burgerbibliothek (in German)
    A special library for manuscripts. Among these is Rudolf Wolf's collection of astronomical autographs.
  • Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern (in German)
    • Ryhiner map collection (in English and German)
• Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University Libraries, Special Collections Department
    Including Archives of American Aerospace Exploration, Manuscripts Collection, Rare Book Collection, University Archive
• Cache Valley, Utah, USA
  • Utah State University: Special Collections and Archives
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • MIT Institute Archives
    A short information from the MIT Libraries
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • National Library of Denmark
    (The library is also the National Archive for manuscripts)
  • Niels Bohr Archive
• Dresden, Germany
  • Universitätsarchiv ( including images of title pages and illustrations. Typing in astro% gives 417 hints. The books are mostly in Latin, German, and French. As an example an astronomical book from 1611 with digitized images of the title page and of an id>
• Florence, Italy
  • Archive of the Reale Museo di fisica e storia naturale
  • Institute and Museum of History of Science: Library
    Including data base search in Italian; to find books on history of astronomy published in 1993 type in: KW=ASTRONOMIA * DP=1993
  • Institute and Museum of History of Science: Photographic archives
• Geneva, Switzerland
  • CERN Archives
  • The Wolfgang Pauli Archive
• Germany
  • Archives in Germany
  • Sondersammelgebiet Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Geschichte und Organisation der Wissenschaften und ihrer Einrichtungen (in German)
• Göttingen, Germany
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (in German)
    • Abteilung Handschriften und seltene Drucke
      Holds, e.g., the Nachlass of Gauss
    • Kartensammlung
    • Sammlung deutscher Drucke 1701 - 1800
• Graz, Austria
  • Abteilung für Sondersammlungen der Universitätsbibliothek (in German)
  • Universitätsarchiv (in German)
• Great Britain
  • National Photographic Collections
• Hamburg, Germany
  • Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik: Bibliothek (in German)
  • Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (mainly in German)
    • Handschriftenabteilung
    • Kartensammlung
    • Rara
• Houston, Texas, USA
  • Fondren Library, Rice University
    • Rare Book Collections
    • Manuscript Collections
    • Rice University Archives
• Kansas City, Missouri, USA
  • Linda Hall Library
    • History of Science Collection
• Leoben, Austria
  • Universitätsbibliothek der Montanuniversität Leoben (in German)
    • Kartensammlung
    • Montanhistorische Literatur- und Bilddokumentation
• London, UK
  • Public Record Office
  • Science Museum Library
  • Science Museum: Documentation Centre
• Marbach, Germany
  • Schiller-Nationalmuseum / Deutsches Literaturarchiv (in German)
    Holds also letters from scientists
• Manchester, UK
  • National Archive for the History of Computing
• Melbourne, Australia
  • Museum of Victoria
    • Museum archives
    • Scienceworks Mutimedia Collection
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