Acknowledgments
Thanks to the chiefs, curators, and staff of the following New York Public
Library collections for their advice and assistance in making materials available
for the exhibition:
Science, Industry and Business Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library: General Research Division; Miriam
and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs; Rare Books
Division; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of
English and American Literature; Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection
of Shelley and His Circle; Spencer Collection; Map Division; Dorot Jewish
Division; George Arents Collection
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Music Division
We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following
institutions and individuals for lending items from their collections:
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago
Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, Babson Park,
Massachusetts
The Burndy Library, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Butler Library, Columbia University, New York
California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena
Cambridge University Library, England
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
The New-York Historical Society
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.
Private Collection
Our thanks to the following institutions for permission to reproduce works
of art from their collections:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Civici
Musei d’Arte e Storia di Brescia; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Galleria
Doria Pamphilij, Rome; Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hanover; Royal
Society of Arts, London; Tate Britain, London