Scientific archives and rare books

Scientific archive collections

Please refer to the French version of this page to find a list of all our archive collections that have been processed or are currently being processed. Those are only accessible upon justified request, and after approval by the person in charge of the library.

Rare books

Among the works from the 17^th century, our vault holds titles by Kepler, Francois Viete, Descartes, Cavalieri and Huygens. As for the 18^th century, we preserve the works of Daniel Bernoulli, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Leonhard Euler, and Condorcet.

The oldest book is Oronce Fine's Commentary on the first six books of Euclid's geometry, printed in 1536.

These monographs are not directly accessible to the public. To consult a rare book, you must first request it through the library staff.
You must follow the necessary precautions when handling those items.