To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Buffalo Museum of Science’s accomplishment in 1938 of acquiring 198 first editions of major breakthroughs in science, C-SAAHN is sponsoring the “IMAGINE Exploring Nature: Celebrating Milestones of Science and Imagination” Noon-Hour Lecture Series every second Tuesday in 2013 and fourth Tuesday in 2014 (except July & August) at the downtown Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
Since the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library now has possession of these rare first edition books, they are planning an exhibit in late 2013.
ImagineLifelongLearning.com is preparing a chronological list of the ten disciplines (Wikipedia links to disciplines and scientists) and number of books in each category included in the Milestones of Science collection:
| Wikipedia: Astronomy |
************** Milestones of Science – 198 Astronomy – 29 Biology – 52 Chemistry – 16 General Science – 5 Geography – 12 Geology – 12 Mathematics – 10 Medicine – 16 Physics – 45 Printing – 1 |
Below are the 45 books in the Milestones of Science collection devoted to Physics in chronological order:
 De magnete |
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603. | 1600 | Physics |
 Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche |
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. | 1638 | Physics |
 Traitez de l’equilibre des liqueurs |
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. | 1663 | Physics |
 Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio |
Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686. | 1672 | Physics |
 Horologium oscillatorium |
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. | 1673 | Physics |
 Traité de la lumière |
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. | 1690 | Physics |
 Optiks |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. | 1704 | Physics |
 Lezioni accademiche |
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647. | 1715 | Physics |
 Experiments and observations on electricity |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. | 1769 | Physics |
 Essais sur l’hygrométrie |
Saussure, Horace,Benedict de,1740 – 1799 | 1783 | Physics |
 Expériences de la machine aérostatique |
Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit., (Barthélemy)1741-1819. | 1783-1784 | Physics |
 Theorie des klanges |
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich, 1756-1827. | 1787 | Physics |
 Source of the heat which is excited by friction |
Rumford, Benjamin, 1753-1814. | 1798 | Physics |
 On the electricity excited |
Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827. | 1800 | Physics |
 Powers of the prismatic colours to heat |
Herschel, William,1738-1822. | 1800 | Physics |
 Akustik |
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich, 1756-1827. | 1802 | Physics |
 Method of examining refractive and dispersive powers |
Wollaston, William Hyde, 1766-1828. | 1802 | Physics |
 Manière de déterminer les masses |
Avogadro, Amadeo, 1776-1856. | 1811 | Physics |
 Application of wire-gauze to lamps |
Davy, Humphry, 1778-1829. | 1816 | Physics |
 Bestimmung des brechungs-und farbenzerstreuungs-vermögens. |
Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826. | 1817 | Physics |
 Action mutuelle |
Ampère, André-Marie, 1775-1836. | 1820 | Physics |
 Experimenta |
Ørsted, Hans Christian, 1777-1851. | 1820 | Physics |
 Théorie analytique de la chaleur |
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1768-1830. | 1822 | Physics |
 Galvanische kette |
Ohm, Georg Simon, 1789-1854. | 1827 | Physics |
 Historique du daguerréotype |
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851. | 1839 | Physics |
 History of the daguerréotype |
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851. | 1839 | Physics |
 Experimental researches in electricity |
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867. | 1839-1855 | Physics |
 Über die erhaltung der kraft |
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894. | 1847 | Physics |
 On the physical character of the lines of magnetic force |
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867. | 1852 | Physics |
 Untersuchungen über das sonnenspectrum |
Kirchhoff, G. 1824-1887. | 1861 | Physics |
 Heat considered as a mode of motion |
Tyndall, John,1820-1893. | 1863 | Physics |
 Dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field |
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879. | 1865 | Physics |
 On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances |
Gibbs, J. Willard 1839-1903. | 1874-1878 | Physics |
 On the sensations of tone |
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894. | 1875 | Physics |
 Scientific papers |
Joule, James Prescott, 1818-1889. | 1884 -1887 | Physics |
 Untersuchungen ueber die ausbreitung der elektrischen kraft |
Hertz, Heinrich, 1857-1894. | 1892 | Physics |
 Neue art von strahlen |
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923. | 1896 | Physics |
 Vorlesungen über die elektromagnetische theorie des lichts |
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894. | 1897 | Physics |
 Wireless telegraphy |
Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937. | 1899 | Physics |
 Zur theorie des gesetzes |
Planck, Max1858-1947. | 1900 | Physics |
 Zichtbare en onzichtbare bewegingen |
1853-1928. |
1901 | Physics |
 Animals in motion |
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | 1902 | Physics |
 Une propriété nouvelle de la matière |
Becquerel, Henri, 1852-1908. | 1903 | Physics |
 Traité de radioactivité |
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934. | 1910 | Physics |
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