Dibner, Bern

Overview

Works:	2,493 works in 2,749 publications in 18 languages and 14,787 library holdings
Roles:	Editor, Other, Creator
Classifications:	t40.l46, 016.5

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Publications about Bern Dibner

Publications by Bern Dibner

Most widely held works about Bern Dibner

Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ( Book )
The complete works of William Shakespeare : the Cambridge edition text, as edited by William Aldis Wright, including the Temple notes by William Shakespeare ( Book )
Moby Dick; or, The whale by Herman Melville ( Book )
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio ( Book )
The ballad of Yukon Jake by Edward E Paramore ( Book )

Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare ( Book )
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt by Giacomo Casanova ( Book )
Of men and mountains; being an account of the European travels of the author and his wife, Sally, following their release from continental imprisonment by Rockwell Kent ( Book )
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Book )
City child : poems by Selma Robinson ( Book )
Dreams & derisions by John Burke ( Book )
Anniversary ode by Louis Kaufman Anspacher ( Book )
All men are enemies : a romance by Richard Aldington ( Book )
The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at 25 years: celebrating a collector's vision and its legacy : Icons of understanding : celebrating Bern Dibner's Heralds of science by Owen Gingerich ( Book )
Traité de la lumiere ; ou y sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion et dans la refraction et particulierement dans l'étrange refraction du cristal d'islande by Christiaan Huygens ( Book )
Candide by Voltaire ( Book )
The mad hermit : seven drawings from the Wilderness, a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska by Rockwell Kent ( Book )
Geofisica : meteorologia, aeorologia e pireliometria by C Alessandri ( Book )
Atti della sesta Riunione degli scienziati italiani tenuta in Milano nel settembre del MDCCCXLIV by Riunione degli scienziati italiani (1844) ( Book )
Geofisica : gravità e magnetismo by Giorgio Abetti ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Bern Dibner

Leonardo the inventor by Ludwig H Heydenreich ( Book )
9 editions published between 1980 and 1985 in 3 languages and held by 737 libraries worldwide

Oersted and the discovery of electromagnetism by Bern Dibner ( Book )
13 editions published between 1961 and 1963 in English and held by 503 libraries worldwide

Moving the obelisks; a chapter in engineering history in which the Vatican obelisk in Rome in 1586 was moved by muscle power, and a study of more recent similar moves by Bern Dibner ( Book )
12 editions published between 1950 and 1991 in English and held by 460 libraries worldwide

Darwin of the Beagle by Bern Dibner ( Book )
14 editions published between 1960 and 1977 in English and held by 455 libraries worldwide

Alessandro Volta and the electric battery by Bern Dibner ( Book )
4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 449 libraries worldwide

The Atlantic cable by Bern Dibner ( Book )
14 editions published between 1959 and 1967 in English and Spanish and held by 389 libraries worldwide

Early electrical machines; the experiments and apparatus of two enquiring centuries (1600 to 1800) that led to the triumphs of the electrical age by Bern Dibner ( Book )
6 editions published in 1957 in English and held by 282 libraries worldwide

The Victoria and the Triton by Bern Dibner ( Book )
7 editions published between 1962 and 1966 in English and held by 260 libraries worldwide

Agricola on metals by Bern Dibner ( Book )
3 editions published between 1958 and 1968 in English and held by 257 libraries worldwide

Ten founding fathers of the electrical science by Bern Dibner ( Book )
7 editions published in 1954 in English and Undetermined and held by 243 libraries worldwide

Heralds of science : as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution by Dibner Library ( Book )
2 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 241 libraries worldwide

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 )
2 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and held by 228 libraries worldwide

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the discovery of X rays by Bern Dibner ( Book )
2 editions published in 1968 in Undetermined and English and held by 216 libraries worldwide
Covers observations and theories leading to Röntgen's work, biographical information about the German physicist, Röntgen's discovery and further research, and improvements and applications of the X ray after the appearance of Röntgen's papers.

A letter from Galileo : Galileo, the innovator by Bern Dibner ( Book )
2 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 212 libraries worldwide

Leonardo da Vinci, technologist; three essays by Ladislao Reti ( Book )
1 edition published in 1969 in English and held by 202 libraries worldwide

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

The new rays of Professor Röntgen by Bern Dibner ( Book )
8 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 176 libraries worldwide

Manuscripts of the Dibner collection in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries by Smithsonian Institution ( Book )
3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 176 libraries worldwide

Galvani-Volta; a controversy that led to the discovery of useful electricity by Bern Dibner ( Book )
3 editions published in 1952 in English and held by 149 libraries worldwide

Luigi Galvani : an expanded version of a biography prepared for the forthcoming edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica : with a supplement reproducing three of the four original drawings illustrating the 1791 edition of De viribus electricitatis by Bern Dibner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1971 in English and held by 125 libraries worldwide

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Audience level: 0.68 (from 0.15 for Wilhelm Co ... to 0.83 for Manuscript ...)

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Associated Subjects

Art‍ Astronomy‍ Beagle Expedition‍ Bibliography‍ Biography‍ Burndy Library‍ Catalogs‍ Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882‍ De re metallica (Agricola, Georg)‍ De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari comentarius (Galvani, Luigi)‍ Dibner, Bern‍ Dibner Library‍ Early works‍ Electricians‍ Electricity‍ Electric machines‍ Electromagnetism‍ Electrophysiology‍ France Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790‍ Galvani, Luigi,--1737-1798‍ Geometry‍ History‍ Italy Italy--Rome Kent, Rockwell,--1882-1971‍ Leonardo,--da Vinci,--1452-1519‍ Mathematics‍ Mechanics‍ Mechanics, Analytic‍ Metallurgy‍ Military engineering‍ Mining engineering‍ Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.‍ Obelisks‍ Physicists‍ Physics‍ Physiologists‍ Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad,--1845-1923‍ Science‍ Science--Manuscripts‍ Science--Sources‍ Sea stories‍ Technology--Manuscripts‍ Transatlantic cables‍ Triton (Submarine)‍ United States Volta, Alessandro,--1745-1827‍ X-rays‍ Ørsted, Hans Christian,--1777-1851‍

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English (1,013)
French (629)
Italian (421)
German (405)
Latin (234)
Spanish (15)
Swedish (10)
Dutch (9)
Danish (8)
Czech (4)
Undetermined (3)
Russian (2)
Norwegian (2)
Portuguese (1)
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Polish (1)
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Hungarian (1)