Research Guides: GERM 320: Science As Fiction (HC) Spring 2016: Primary Sources

Finding Primary Sources

This page includes the materials used during your class visit as well as other relevant materials from Haverford's Quaker & Special Collections. You are very welcome to use or look at any of these materials you find of interest. To find additional primary sources, please see the "Finding Books & Book Chapters" page and Special Collections' finding aids.

Robert Boyle

New experiments and observations touching cold,
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"or an experimental history of cold begun. To which are added An examen of antiperistasis and An examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold."
London: Printed for John Crook, 1665. First edition.
A continvation of Nevv experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and vveight of the air, and their effects
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"The I. Part. Written by way of letter, to the Right Honorable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan. Whereunto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies."
Oxford : Printed by H. Hall for Richard Davis, 1669. First edition.
A follow-up to Boyle's first published work, in 1660, which established his fame. This work includes discussion of the vacuum pump.
Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies, in two essays .
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London : S. Smith, 1684.
One of Boyle's more miscellaneous works.
Letter, July 27, 1667
Written from Oxford to his brother, the Earl of Burlington, about his estate in Ireland.
In the Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species
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London : John Murray [Printed by W. Clowes and Sons], 1859.
First edition of Darwin's classic text on evolution.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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New York : Appleton, 1873. First edition published in London, 1872.
One of Darwin's considerations of the origins of humans, it was one of the first scientific works to use photographs for illustration.
The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species
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New York : Appleton, 1877. First published in London in 1877.
"This book consists chiefly of the several papers on heterostyled flowers, originally published by the Linnean Society, corrected, with much new matter added, together with observations on some other cases in which the same plant bears two kinds of flowers." (Darwin's autobiography)
Letter, June 6, 1877
Sending six photographs with his signature to a charity.
In the Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection.

Other Authors

Psychology
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William James
New York, H. Holt and company, 1892.
Edward Drinker Cope papers
Letters, notes and sketches related to Cope's work in paleontology and related sciences.
Letter, June 10, 1834
From Mary Shelley to Charles Ollier.
Regarding a book or article.
Goethe's Schriften
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Leipzig : bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787-90.
First authorized edition of Goethe's collected works, in 8 volumes.
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
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Leipzig : J.A. Barth, 1916.
Einstein on relativity.
Einstein letters
From Princeton, April 10, 1946 and January 3, 1948.
One to a student in Asheville appreciate his interest in Einstein's science, one to Clarence Hoag on atomic energy and world peace.
In the Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection.