Subcollections

Physics

In addition to physics, this collection contains geology ('physical geography') and meteorology. Although it also contains works by many of the better known scientists from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (R 42-309), it is not representative of the field. The most interesting works are mentioned in the following overview. From the middle of the nineteenth century onwards most research in this field is no longer published in books, but in periodicals and serials.

The section on 'physical geography' (R 310-507) is not especially interesting, even though the geology of a number of regions and countries such as Scandinavia, the Asiatic part of Russia, Indonesia, and the United States of America is fairly well represented.

The collection part 'meteorology' (R 508-664) contains works from meteorological observatoria, mainly situated in Europe, India, Indonesia, and the United States of America. A number of works have been transferred in the 1930s to the KNMI, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. The subcollection contains a number of works by Dutch scientist Buys Ballot, but not his complete works.

Special works in this part of the collection:

The original call numbers have been added where applicable.

• Sermo academiae de comparando certo in physicis / Herman Boerhaave. - Lugduni Batavorum, 1715. - (R 1)
• Systema natura / Carolus Linnaei. - 1735. - (R 4a)
• Introductio ad philosopham naturalem / Petrus van Musschenbroek. - Lugduni Batavorum, 1762. - 2 dl. (R 5)
• Amoenitates academiae seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae, botanicae / Carolus Linnaei. - Erlangae, 1787-1790. - 10 dl. - (R 22)
• Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis / Athanasius Kircher. - Amstelodami, 1680. - (R 25)
• Positiones physicae / J.H. van Swinden. - Harderovici, 1786. - 2 dl.- (R 45)
• Beginselen der natuurkunde / Petrus van Musschenbroek. - Leyden, 1739. - (R 50)
• Elemens de physique demontrez mathemat. et confirmez par des experiences / G.J. 's Gravesande. - Leide, 1746. - 2 dl. (R 51)
• Filosofische onderwijzer, of algemeene schets der hedendaagsche ondervindelijke natuurkunde / Benjamin Martin. - Amsterdam, 1765. - 3e dr. (R 54)
• Physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis ... / Gasparis Schottus. - Herbipoli, 1667. - (R 81)
• Opera varia / Robert Boyle. - Genevae, 1680-1682. - 4 dl. (R 82)
• Opera reliqua / Christiaan Huygens. - Amstelodami, 1728. - 2 dl. - (R 86-87)
• Grondige oplossinge van de natuur en eygenschappen der elementen, enz. ... / Cornelis Drebbel . - Amsteldam, 1732. -(R 89)
• An account of Is. Newton's philosophical discoveries / C. Mailaurin. - London, 1748. - 4 dl. (R 92)
• Opuscula varii argumenti / L. Euler. - Berolini, 1746. - (R 93)
  Andere werken van Euler: zie R 93, 94, 123, 136, 183.
• Oeuvres philosophiques et mathématiques / G.J. 's Gravesande. - Amsterdam, 1774. - 2 dl.- (R 96)
  Verzameld werk van 's Gravesande.
• Werke / Carl Friedrich Gauss. - Göttingen, 1863-1874. - 7 dl. - (R 102)
• Oeuvres complètes / Aug. Fresnel. - Paris, 1866-1870. - 3 dl. - (R 103)
• The complete works of Rumford / Benjamin Thomson Rumford. - Boston, 1870. - (R 104)
• Magia universalis naturae et artis / Gasparis Schottus. - Bambergae, 1677. - (R 105)
• Fisica de corpi ponderabili ossia trattato della constituzione generale de' corpi / Amedeo Avogadro. - Torino, 1837-41. - 4 dl. - (R 117)
• Matter and motion / J. Clerk Maxwell. - London, 1876. - (R 133)
• Nouvelle mécanique ou statique ... / Pierre Varignon. - Paris, 1725. - 2 dl. - (R 151)
• Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / Joseph Priestly. - London, 1774-1777. - 3 dl. (R 167)
  Meer werken van Priestly aanwezig: R 168, 169.
• Ars magna lucis et umbrae ... / Athanasius Kircher. - Amstelodami, 1671. - (R 187)
• Optice / Isaac Newton. - Londini, 1706. - (R 197)
• Catalogus van .. vergrootglazen ... Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek . - 1747 . - (R 209a)
• Analogie de l'electricite et du magnetisme / J.H. van Swinden. - La Haye, 1785. - (R 271)
• Sur la théorie de Franklin ... / Martinus van Marum. - Harlem, 1819. - (R 274)
• Mémoires sur l'action mutuelle de deux courans électriques / André Marie Ampère. - Paris, s.a. (R 277)
• A treatise on electricity and magnetism / J. Clerk Maxwell. - Oxford, 1873. - 2 dl. (R 282)
• De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete-tellure, physiologia nova ... / Guil. Gilbertus Colcestrensis. - Londini, 1600. - (R 304)
• Magnes, sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum / Athanasius Kircher. - Romae, 1654. - 3e ed. (R 305)
• Physikalischer Atlas / Heinrich Berghaus. - Gotha, 1852. - (R 312)
• Yosemite guide-book / Josiah Dwight Whitney. - 1870. - 2e(?) dr. (R 479)
  Informatie over dit werk:Josiah Dwight Whitney's Yosemite Book (1868) is the most spectacular record of the most celebrated scenic valley in the world. The Massachusetts geologist was one of the commissionersappointed to oversee the Yosemite Valley when it was set aside as apark in perpetuity by the government in 1864, as part of aCongressional Act that marked the beginning of the system of national parks. Whitney was also the first state geologistof California, supervising much of the early scientific exploration ofthe Sierra Nevada, from 1860 until the Geological Survey wasdisbanded in 1879. Publication of the results of the Survey waserratic and fragmentary, but fortunately included The Yosemite Book, a splendid quarto gift book with 28 mounted photographs byCarleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), a New York-born artist who was well-known for a series of enormous and stereoscopic imagesof the Yosemite Valley that he produced in 1861. The plates were original photographic prints, which effectively limited the edition: only 250 copies were produced. Watkins' images of Yosemite were instrumental in convincing the U.S. Congress to preserve the Yosemite Valley as "inviolate." They are not so much a documentary record of vanished splendor as a timeless response and the direct precursor of the work of an entire school of environmentalist photographers, including Ansel Adams.
• Traité de météorologie / Cotte. - . - Paris, 1774. - (R 508)
• Verhandeling over de sneeuwfiguren, enz. / Jan Engelman. - Utrecht, 1771. - 2e uitg. (R 555)