The Samuel I. And Cecile M. Barchas Collection of The History
of Science and Ideas
This
remarkable collection was acquired by Stanford in 1982, and consists
of more than 5,000 volumes in the history of modern and early modern
science. The collection includes thirteen books printed in the 15th
century, and features such highlights as early editions of Aristarchus,
Ptolemy, Euclid, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Vesalius, Boyle, Darwin,
Pliny, and others.
This
remarkable collection was acquired by Stanford in 1982, and consists
of more than 5,000 volumes in the history of modern and early modern
science. The collection includes thirteen books printed in the 15th
century, and features such highlights as early editions of Aristarchus,
Ptolemy, Euclid, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Vesalius, Boyle, Darwin,
Pliny, and others.