The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program / edited by Lilla Vekerdy.

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.

xi, 87 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

About Smithsonian libraries -- Preface / Nancy E. Gwinn -- Scientific expansion in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Romantic science : on writing the age of wonder / Richard Holmes ; Learned societies and the birth of American science / Marc Rothenberg ; Agents of exchange : origins of scholarly communication in nineteenth-century America / Nancy E. Gwinn -- The Dibner Library as scholarly resource. Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology / Lilla Vekerdy ; The history of the Resident Scholar Program at the Smithsonian libraries / Lilla Vekerdy ; Sharing mathematical treasures from the Dibner Library / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell ; Bern Dibner's way of collecting and its importance for scholars / Pamela O. Long ; Utilizing Dibner resources at the National Air and Space Museum / David Devorkin -- The case of the "forgotten" telescope / Steven C. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.