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In November 2006, The Huntington acquired an extraordinary addition to its library collections: the gift of the entire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Burndy Library, composed of some 67,000 rare books and reference volumes, as well as a collection of scientific instruments.  Combined with the Huntington’s holdings, the collection becomes one of the most extensive in the history of science and technology in the world. 

 

After cataloguing and processing, the collection will be available for scholars in the summer of 2008. Accompanying the library is the Dibner History of Science Program at the Huntington. This program will fund long- and short-term fellowships, an annual conference, a lecture series, and an ongoing seminar.

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First edition of 17th-century British philosopher Robert Boyle’s Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine or production of electricity, 1675. 

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