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Leoncini donation: monographs

2020-06-03:

The monographs belonging to Leone Leoncini's personal library have been catalogued.

Archive of the Institute and Museum of the history of science

2020-01-21:

The documents created during the direction of Andrea Corsini (1927-1961) have been described.

Restored ancient books

2019-09-06:

Thanks to a cultural donation ("Art bonus") two 18th century scientific works have been restored.

Portal Archives of science

2019-08-05:

The Museo Galileo library maintains the section "Bibliographic resources"

Books on ancient clocks

2019-02-14:

Publications related to ancient clocks and dating back since the early 20th century, have been received as donation.

New acquisitions related to Leonardo da Vinci

2018-12-03:

Books of interest to Leonardo scholars, that have been published since the late 19th century, have been acquired.

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