In November of 1922, after eight long years, British archaeologist Howard Carter finally succeeded in finding the 3,000 year old tomb of King Tutankhamen. It took more than a year more »
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There's always leftovers the day after…—Elizabeth Periale Top: Eleazar Albin, A natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their more »
“The most important single book in science”—Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science One hundred fifty years ago, in November 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species was published. The 1,250 more »
Maximilian, Prinz von Wied, Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 [Trip to North American between the years 1832 and 1834], 1839-1841, Plate 12. Noápeh. An more »
Oronce Fine, Orontij Finei Delphinatis, 1542 The Dibner Library recently assisted Smithsonian Affiliate museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, with selecting items for their upcoming exhibit, Visions of the Cosmos: From more »
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904, Anemone The Libraries may not be able to go along on a cruise to select specimens, but our collections can help more »
On September 30th, 2009 the new Public Observatory of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) opened. Secretary of the Smithsonian, G. Wayne Clough recently cited the observatory project as more »