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The Bakken: A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life, founded in 1975 in Minneapolis, by Earl Bakken, is in the best tradition of the avid collectors of the sources of science and medicine, such as Francis Ronalds, J. Latimer Clark, Bern Dibner, and William Osler. The focus of the Bakken collection is on the historical role of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine, thus encompassing the history of electricity and magnetism, electrophysiology, electrotheraputics, and accompanying instrumentation. It also includes many works from the mesmerist movement. The collecting emphasis is on materials from the 18th, 19th,and early 20th centuries. The interdisciplinary nature of the Bakken's collection established it as a unique research and its catalogue as an important reference tool.
This volume is a bibliographic record of the library collections of the Bakken. Books and manuscripts are arranged by author within four chronological groupings. The 5,180 entries include full bibliographical and provenance information. The text is followed by an author index.
Historians of science, technology, and medicine, rare book collectors and dealers, and science and medical librarians will all find this catalogue an invaluable resource and reference tool.
This volume is a bibliographic record of the library collections of the Bakken. Books and manuscripts are arranged by author within four chronological groupings. The 5,180 entries include full bibliographical and provenance information. The text is followed by an author index.
Historians of science, technology, and medicine, rare book collectors and dealers, and science and medical librarians will all find this catalogue an invaluable resource and reference tool.
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Judith A. Overmier, Curator of the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine for 23 years, is Assistant Professor, SLIS, University of Oklahoma. She is the author of several articles on medical rare book librarianship and on collecting rare science books as well as cover story editor for Libraries and Culture.
John Edward Senior has been the Curator of the Museum of the Academy of Medicine of Toronto and Director of the Bakken.
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John Edward Senior has been the Curator of the Museum of the Academy of Medicine of Toronto and Director of the Bakken.
...a useful addition to any library in the history of science and technology. (Journal Of The American Scientific Instrument Enterprise)
For historians of science and medicine...is will prove fascinating....a work that many traditional librarians would say illustrates what librarianship is all about: painstaking cataloguing of past works irrespective of their apparent relevance to modern thought. Few would disagree. (Reference Reviews)
...impressive. (Medical History)
There are few comprehensive bibliographies of books on electricity. Both the Chalmers [Catalog of Books and Papers in Electricity and Magnetism Belonging to the Institute for the History of Electricity, by Stig Ekelof, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden] and Bakken volumes are essential companions to Wheeler Gift, Ronalds and Mottelay on the reference shelf, and may well amplify many of the too-brief descriptions given in two out of three of those standard works. (Antiquarian Book Monthly)
...useful for medical or physiology libraries and for libraries with strong collections in the history of science. (CHOICE)
For historians of science and medicine...is will prove fascinating....a work that many traditional librarians would say illustrates what librarianship is all about: painstaking cataloguing of past works irrespective of their apparent relevance to modern thought. Few would disagree. (Reference Reviews)
...impressive. (Medical History)
There are few comprehensive bibliographies of books on electricity. Both the Chalmers [Catalog of Books and Papers in Electricity and Magnetism Belonging to the Institute for the History of Electricity, by Stig Ekelof, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden] and Bakken volumes are essential companions to Wheeler Gift, Ronalds and Mottelay on the reference shelf, and may well amplify many of the too-brief descriptions given in two out of three of those standard works. (Antiquarian Book Monthly)
...useful for medical or physiology libraries and for libraries with strong collections in the history of science. (CHOICE)
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- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0810825708
- ISBN 13 9780810825703
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Metuchen, New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. Just removed from the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap so we could write this description. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. 1992. First Edition. This bibliography describes 6,000 rare books, journals, and manuscripts on electricity, magnetism, and their medical applications, mostly from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Also included are incunabula, examples of scientific quackery, classics from the libraries of Horblitt and Honeyman, a first edition of Shelley's Frankenstein, etc. Illustrated here are titlepage facsimiles, binding photos, and other reproductions, some in full color. Earl Bakken, inventor of the first wearable heart pacemaker, began this collection while he was CEO of Medtronics, a bio-medical firm in Minnesota. From the introduction: "The collections of The Bakken: A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life are firmly in in the traditions of electrical and scientific rare book collecting established by Josiah Latimer Clark and Francis Ronalds Herbert M. Evans, Everette Lee DeGolyer, Bern Dibner, Harrison D. Horbitt As The Bakken omnivorously collected around the theme of electricity in life, it emphasized the biological and health-sciences aspects of electricity more than any previous science collectors. Each entry contains standard bibliographic information, including author's full name with birth and death dates. full title, city, publisher, and date of publication. Collations are given and include paging, illustrations, and size of the book. Early works have been provided with signatures, colophons, and incipits where appropriate. The catalog is lightly annotated. based on notes in rare book dealers' catalogues, bibliographies, and on articles and books in the history of several fields." Provenance, when known, is also noted. Entries are cross referenced to Ronalds, Wheeler, Gartrell. From the foreword by Willem Hackmann: "Earl Bakken has followed in the footsteps of the few other great collectors and bibliophiles in the field of electricity and magnetism, such as Francis Ronald, S.S. Wheeler, and more recently, Bern Dibner. Unusually, he is one of the few to have concentrated on both books and the associated instruments." Index. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in shiny gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.75" thick. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. xvii, 512pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 017417
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