Before the Textbook
These select pages highlight rare scientific monographs located in the Library’s Archives and Special Collections. The volumes on Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics date from the late 16th century to the early 20th century and include titles from the Simon Newcomb Collection, which, at the time of its donation to the College by alumnus John Clafin in 1909, was considered to be one of the most notable collections on astronomy and mathematics.
Materials are in the public domain in the United States.
Monographs from 1916
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Albert Einstein and Leipzig : Verlag von Johann Ambrosious Barth
Monographs from 1842
Geometrical problems deducible from the first six books of Euclid, arranged and solved: to which is added an appendix containing the elements of plane trigonometry. For the use of the younger students, Miles Bland and London: Whitaker and Co. Ave Maria Lane
Monographs from 1830
Théorie des nombres, A. M. (Adrien Marie) Legendre and Paris, Firmin Didot frères
Monographs from 1812
Élémens de géométrie, Jean Guillaume Garnier and Béchet
Monographs from 1805
The doctrine and application of fluxions: containing (besides what is common on the subject) a number of new improvements in the theory, and the solutions of a variety of new and very interesting problems in different branches of the mathematics., Thomas Simpson and London, Printed for H.D. Symonds
Monographs from 1794
Institutionum calculi integralis ... Auctore Leonhardo Eulero., Leonhard Euler and Petropoli, Impensis Academiae Imperialis Scientiarum
Monographs from 1746
Portraits historiques des hommes illustres de Dannemark, remarquables par leur merite, leurs charges & leur noblesse, avec leurs tables généalogiques., Tycho de Hofman and [Copenhague]
Monographs from 1736
The method of fluxions and infinite series; : with its application to the geometry of curve-lines, Isaac, Sir Newton and London: : Printed by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John Nourse ...,
Monographs from 1704
Opticks, Isaac, Sir Newton and London, Printed for S. Smith, and B. Walford,
Monographs from 1695
Renati Des Cartes Geometria, : unà cum notis Florimondi de Beaune, in curia Blesensi consiliarii regii, & commentariis illustrata, operâ atque studio Francisci à Schooten ... ab eodem dum viveret diligenter recognita, locupletioribus commentariis instructa, multisque egregiis accessionibus, tam ad ulteriorem explicationem, quàm ad ampliandam hujus Geometriae excellentiam facientibus exornata., ReneÌ Descartes and Francofurti ad Moenum, : Sumptibus Friderici Knochii, bibliop.,
Monographs from 1679
Catalogus stellarum Australium sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici, Edmond Halley
Monographs from 1678
Renati Des-Cartes Opera philosophica, René Descartes and Amstelodami : apud Danielem Elsevirium
Monographs from 1656
Institvtio astronomica iuxta hypotheses tam veterum quàm Copernici & Tychonis:, Pierre Gassendi and Hagæ-Comitum, Apud Adrianum Vlacq
Monographs from 1602
Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata, Tycho Brahe and Bruxelles, Culture et Civilisation
Monographs from 1589
Astronomica vetervm scripta isagogica Græca & Latina, Germanicus Caesar and [Heidelbergae] : In Officina Sanctandreana