A collection of 41 microfilms of documents from the archive of the Royal Society of London. The collection includes materials relating to the foundation and early decades of the Society’s operation, one of the first and most influential scientific academies, which remains active to this day.
The collection comprises correspondence with some of the most prominent scientists of the time, including Isaac Newton, one of the Society's first presidents, as well as a diverse range of documents: articles, memoirs, and reports, many of which were never published in the Society's journal, Philosophical Transactions. This collection is of significant importance not only to the history of science during the Scientific Revolution but also to the social and cultural history of Restoration England.
Relativity and quantum theory emerged during the period 1898–1913 and received a significant boost in the two decades that followed, from 1913 to 1933.
This archive, consisting of 293 microfilms, was initiated in 1961 by the American Philosophical Society (APS) and contains previously unpublished documentation related to the history of quantum physics and theoretical physics. It includes letters, manuscripts, notebooks, and interviews from renowned physicists such as Planck, Rutherford, Einstein, Bohr, De Broglie, Heisenberg, and others.
The APS initiative helped preserve this exceptional documentation from oblivion and destruction. To aid in its consultation, the catalogue Sources for the History of Quantum Physics was published in 1967. These original sources are available in only a few libraries worldwide, including the Science and Technology Library. For more information, please consult the UAB Search Engine:
Landmarks of Science I and II is a collection of facsimiles of early editions of scientific works, printed between the 17th and 20th centuries. By way of example, it includes facsimiles of Opticks by Newton, in an English edition from 1704; History of Creation by Lamarck, in a 1875 edition; On the Origin of Species by Darwin, in a 1859 edition; and journals such as Philosophical Transactions and Journal des Sçavans, considered to be the first scientific journals, both from 1665. In total, the collection comprises 4,362 monographs and 53 journals.
A collection of 44 industrial chemistry journals, donated to the library, containing materials from the period 1857-1953 of notable historical significance. This collection is housed in the UAB Reserve.
To access these journals, requests must be made through the form available in each bibliographic record in the catalogue. The materials can be consulted at the Communication Library, where the Reserve is located.
A collection of national and international scientific press from the period 1986-2005, compiled by Xavier Duran and published by the Fundació Centre de Documentació Política. Available for consultation at the Library of Science and Technology.
[Xavier Duran's scientific press dossier](link to search engine)
