Special Collections at Gunnerus Library has been involved in various anniversary events that will take place in Trondheim during the celebration of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) 250 year anniversary. Special Collections has supplied digital materials to DKNVS anniversary website. Read the program here
On Tuesday the 9th of March, an exhibition including special collections materials was opened at the Masonic Lodge, in conjunction with the concert "A Tribute to Johan Daniel Berlin". Then on Friday 12 March His Magesty the King of Norway will be opening the anniversary exhibition of the VM the Natural History and Archaeology Museum of Trondheim.
In this exhibition special collections has contributed with substantial amounts of valuable material: several original books, maps and manuscripts, digital manuscript / maps / books, celestial globe (1600 - t), telescope (1700 - t), Napoleon Clock (1800 h), mature paintings, portraits, and much much more. In addition, a beautiful film about the special collections of the Gunnerus library was produced by the library`s personel and will be running on a big screen of the exhibition by tomorrow.
Saturday 13th of March at the concert Hall of the town of Trondheim during in DKNVS gala performance Gry Molvaer (Schrödinger cat) will review and show off one of Gunnerusbibiotekets rare treasures, Newton's "Principe" in Olavshallen.
In the next month during the NTH-Anniversary celebration of our University, our collections are presenting in collaboration with NTNU one of our most valuable private archives of a great mathematician of our times, the NTNU Onsager-archive. More info on that is yet to come. later.
Regards Ellen Alm, head of special collections
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Newton going Digital!
Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.
This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.
Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.
The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.
Zoom in the book here
The establishment of the library that is today called Gunnerus library belongs to the history of the DKNVS. The library today has initiated aprogram of digitization of its most valuable books, manuscripts and archives and is developing a open platform where its valuable documents can be accessed by the public. Using "Erez" one can actually browse through the book and zoom inn its pages and thus enjoy all the details as if one was holding the book in his hand.
Service terms and prices
The NTNU Gunnerus Library charges a use fee based on its ownership of the physical materials in its collections.
We have about 400 000 photographs from
In case you wish to publish the photo we charge a use fee of 500 NOK for commercial publications, and 200 NOK for non-commercial publications each time the material is published.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us.
Photo services | |
Prints /analog development | |
13x18 | 170,- |
18x24 | 170,- |
Digitisation of photos or document scan, price per item: | |
Low quality | |
0 – 1 Mb | 50,- |
High quality | |
1 - 20 Mb | 150,- |
21 - 50 Mb | 200,- |
over 50 Mb | 300,- |
Shipping and handling: | |
E-mail | 50,- per item |
Download | 50,- per item |
CD | 100,- + 50,- per item + postage |
Paper | 50,- per item + postage |
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