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[[underlined]] Historical Association Items (continued) [[/underlined]]

--calendar notes made by Regiomontanus in 1475;

-- Albert Einstein's handwritten summary of "The General Theory of Relativity;"

--more than a dozen manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton including 66-page autograph work on alchemy and chemistry;

--99 letters written between 1742 and 1770 between Abbe Jean Nollet and Etienne Dutour;

--The Weiner Collection, consisting of more than 1,000 items of manuscript correspondence of many of the world's foremost scientists including Born, Boyle, Euler, Frauenhofer, Kepler,Mach, Pasteur, Planck and Priestly;

--Notes, letters and a manuscript of Wilhelm Roentgen, discoverer of x-rays;

--Volumes from Robert Hooke's personal library with his handwritten annotations;

--65 letter of Cyrus W. Field relating to the Atlantic cable project;

--40 letters of Michael Faraday;

--Manuscript on fortifications of the Comte de Vauban, general and military engineer of Louis XIV;

--Manuscript of Cecco d'Ascoli, dated 1461, of the 15th century astronomer's views on the natural history of the world;

--More than 300 items from the personal library of Alessandro Volta;