390

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Catalog 76.

catalog A shelf mark or entry number for identifying the book within a specific collection.

coll Jid? Likely a dealer's code or an earlier collection reference identifying a specific acquisition.

Caspar 58 A bibliographic reference to Max Caspar’s Kepler Bibliography (Bibliographia Kepleriana), where this specific edition of Johannes Kepler's work is listed as entry number 58.

HERALD OF SCIENCE NO. 6

A prestigious designation given by Bern Dibner to the 200 most significant books in the history of science and technology.

BURNDY LIBRARY

Chartered in 1941

GIFT OF

BERN DIBNER Bern Dibner (1897–1988) was a Ukrainian-American industrialist and historian of science who founded the Burndy Library to preserve the most important milestones of human discovery.

# The Dibner Library ## of the History of ## Science and Technology

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES

In 1974, the Dibner family donated over 10,000 rare books from the Burndy Library to the Smithsonian Institution, creating the foundation for this specialized research library in Washington, D.C.

Postage stamp from the German Democratic Republic original: "DDR" German Democratic Republic 50 *1571 Johannes Kepler A commemorative postage stamp celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. The practice of tipping stamps into books was sometimes used by collectors to further illustrate the book's subject or author.