Iron Library

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The Iron Library (

History

The Iron Library Foundation was established on 31 December 1948, at the initiative of Ernst Müller (1885–1957). He had been director of

In 2014 the Iron Library became member of the Plastics Historical Society in London and the German Plastics Historical Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kunststoffgeschichte) in Bayreuth.

Collection focuses

Iron Library collects media from the following fields:

• Iron and metallurgy
• Plastics
• History of
  natural sciences
• History of Georg Fischer AG

Manuscripts and rare books

The Iron Library's collections contain valuable original holdings of scientific and cultural-historical relevance. The collections include:

• The "Aristoteles-Albertus-Magnus-manuscript" was written in the first half of 13th century. Its main parts are De mineralibus by Aristoteles and De natura loci by Albertus Magnus.^[1]
• De proprietatibus rerum. Printed by Pierre Hongre in Lyons
  , 1482.
• Albertus Magnus: De natura locorum. Printed in Strasbourg, 1515.
• Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg: Ayn liblichs piechel. Written in 1526.
• Georgius Agricola: De re metallica. Printed in Basel, 1556.
• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  . Printed in London, 1687.
• Giuseppe Valadier: Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia principio, e termine della Campana di S. Pietro. Written in 1786.
• Christian von Mechel: Die eiserne Hand des tapferen deutschen Ritters Götz von Berlichingen. The book was printed in 1815 and describes the iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen, which was created in 1530.
• Gustave Eiffel: La tour de trois cents mètres. (Eiffel Tower) Paris, 1900.

• 
  Aristoteles and his pupils, 13th century
• 
  De proprietatibus rerum

  , 1482
• 
  Ayn liblichs piechel, 1526
• 
  Illustration by Giuseppe Valadier, 1786

Georg Fischer Corporate Archives

The Iron Library forms a unitary institution together with the Corporate Archives of Georg Fischer Ltd. The older holdings of the archives are also to be found on the premises of the Paradies convent.

Cultural property and heritage site of significance

The Iron Library is listed as Swiss

The archives of Georg Fischer and the former

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Iron library.

• Official Website of Iron Library (Eisenbibliothek)
• Journal Ferrum (Download)
• Iron Library at e-codices

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