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The APS houses an extensive collection of material related to mathematics and physics. These items range from 18th Century engravings of physical observations, such as the transit of Venus, to prominent 20th Century mathematicians and physicists, both in professional and non-professional settings. The images may be viewed in their entirety or by the collection from which they are drawn.

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• Aliquot rudimenta philosophiae sive pauca introductoria compendia, technologiae, logicae, rhetoricae et physicae (Mss. 509 Ev5)
   
• Archive for the History of Quantum Physics (Mss. 530.1 Ar2)
   
• Astronomical calculations, 1778, 1779 (Mss. 523.78 F87c)
   
• Astronomical Notebook (Mss. 522 D75)
   
• Esfera Astronomica Composta e divida en Circulos, ca. late 17th cent. (Mss. 521 Ast8)
   
• Herman Heine Goldstine papers, [ca. 1940s]-1984 (Mss. Ms. Coll. 19)
   
• Emil Leon Post Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 45)

• A Short Introduction to Natural Philosophy (Mss. 500 Q3)
   
• John Clarke Slater Papers (Mss. B Sl2p)
   
• Henry DeWolf Smyth Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 15)
   
• William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss. B Sw1)
   
• Elihu Thomson Papers (Mss. Ms. Coll. 74)
   
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
   
• Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers (Mss. Ms Coll. 54)

• John Archibald Wheeler papers, [ca. 1950s-1970s] (Mss. B W564)