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• Archimedes, by Chris Rorres (illustrated HTML at NYU)
• William Oughtred, A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics, by Florian Cajori (page images at Cornell)
• Niels-Henrik Abel, tableau de sa vie et son action scientifique (Gauthier-Villars, 1885), by C. A. Bjerknes and Jules Hoüel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Briefwechsel von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz mit Mathematikern / Erster Band. (Mayer & Müller, 1899), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Karl Immanuel Gerhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the life and legend of Michael Scot (D. Douglas, 1897), by J. Wood Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance d'Hermite et de Stieltjes. (Gauthier-Villars, 1905), by Charles Hermite and Thomas Jan Stieltjes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Briefwechsel von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz mit Mathematikern (Mayer & Müller, 1899), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and K. Gerhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (Longmans, Green, 1882), by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiziko-matematicheskīĭ fakulʹtet Kharʹkovskago universiteta za pervyi͡a sto li͡et ego sushchestvovanīi͡a (1805-1905). (Tip. Firmy Adolʹf Darre, 1908), by Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Bagaleĭ and Ivan Pavlovich Osipov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einige Materialen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Facultät der alten Universität Bologna (S. Calvary, 1871), by Silvestro Gherardi, E. L. W. M. Curtze, and Università di Bologna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of men and numbers; the story of the great mathematicians (Dodd, Mead, 1963), by Jane Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and appreciation of Dr. Aaron Schuyler, LL.D., Ph.D., mathematician, teacher, author (The Mohler Printing Company, 1936), by Elisha S. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur Pascal et les géomètres contemporains, suivie de plusieurs notes scientifiques et litteraires (C. Delagrave, 1878), by Adolphe Desboves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annuario biografico del Circolo matematico di Palermo. (Circolo matematico, 1909), by Circolo matematico di Palmero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gauss : zum gedächtnis (S. Hirzel, 1856), by W. Sartorius von Waltershausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die mathematiker Bernoulli : Jubelschrift zur vierten Säcularfeier der Universität Basel VI. September MDCCCLX; im Auftrage der philosophischen Facultät (Schweighauser'sche Universitäts-Buchdruckreei [sic], 1860), by Peter Merian Thurneysen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilhelm Olbers : sein leben und seine werke (Springer, 1894), by W. Olbers and Carl Friedrich Gauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annuario del Circolo matematico di Palermo. (Il Circolo, in the 19th century), by Circolo matematico di Palermo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der mathematiker Jakob Steiner von Utzenstorf. Ein lebensbild und zugleich eine würdigung seiner leistungen. (Bern, 1897), by J. H. Graf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de Jules Tannery (Gauthier-Villars, 1901), by Jules Tannery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annuario biografico del Circolo matematico di Palermo. (Il Circolo, 1909), by Circolo matematico di Palermo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasgos culminantes de la vida del señor Ingeniero Don Lucas T. Cojulún (Tip. Nacional, 1915), by J. Julio Cordero (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot, by J. Wood Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics, by Florian Cajori (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gaston Darboux: Biographie, Bibliographie analytique des écrits (in French), by Ernest Lebon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Paul Appell: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits (in French), by Ernest Lebon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study, by W. G. Waters (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogues de portraits Muller & Co. 1877-84 (En vente aux prix marqués chez Frederik Muller & Co., 1877), by Frederik Muller & Cie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zur Erinnerung an Richard Boeckh Geheimen Regierungsrat und Professor der Statistik an der Universität Berlin. Geboren am 28. März 1824 zu Berlin. Gestorben am 5. Dezember 1907 zu Grunewald. Reden bei der Trauerfeier am 9. dezember 1907, Lebensgang und Schriftenübersicht. (A. Zipplitt, 1907), by W. Rhode and Otto Pfleiderer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women, numbers, and dreams : teacher's manual (National Women's History Project, 1982), by Teri Perl and Patsy Christner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Maverick Mathematician: The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), by Ann Moyal (JSTOR ebook)

• Georg Freiherr von Vega (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1904), by Fridolin Kaučič (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notice Historique sur Gaspard Monge (in French; Paris: Plancher, 1818), by B. Brisson (page images in France)
• Essai historique sur les services et les travaux scientifiques de Gaspard Monge (Bachelier, 1974), by Charles Dupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs et causeries : hors des sentiers d'Euclide (Plon, 1928), by Maurice d' Ocagne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mathématicien franc-comtois François-Joseph Servois ancien conservateur du musée d'artilleríe : d'aprês des documents inédits 1767-1847 (Dodivers, 1895), by Jacques Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean Errard de Bar-le-Duc : "premier ingénieur du tres chréstien roy de France et de Navarre Henry IV" : sa vie, ses œuvres, sa fortification : lettres inédites de Henri IV et de Sully (E. Thorin :, 1884), by Marcel Lallemend and Alfred Boinette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur Maupertuis (A. Durand, 1858), by Ph. Damiron and Académie des sciences morales et politiques (France) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Regiomontanus : (Joh. Müller aus Königsberg in Franken) ein geistiger Vorläufer des Columbus (C. Höckner, 1874), by Alexander Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joachim Jungius und sein Zeitalter (Cotta, 1850), by G. E. Guhrauer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Joachim Jungius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erhard Weigel, ein erzieher aus dem XVII. jahrhunderte. (Leipzig, 1903), by Georg Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century, by Alexander Macfarlane
  • page images at Cornell
  • Gutenberg PDF and zipped LaTeX
• Passages From the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), by Charles Babbage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
  • PDF at djm.cc
• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston (Printed by R. Morison, junr. for R. Morison and son and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1787), by David Stewart Erskine Buchan and Walter Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882), by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on ten British mathematicians of the nineteenth century (John Wiley & sons, inc., 1916), by Alexander Macfarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short story of Charles Babbage ... (Wyman & Gordon, 1905), by Dwight Goddard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archimedes and the Roman imagination (University of Michigan Press, 2008), by Mary Jaeger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dr. Josef Petzvals Leben und Verdienste (Wilhelm Knapp, 1903), by Dr Erményi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biografia di Sebastiano Canterzani (Tiocchi, 1841), by Gianfrancesco Rambelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogio del professore D. Bartolomeo Ferrari C. R. B. : letto al principio dell'anno scolastico 1843-44 nell'I. R. Liceo di S. Alessandro in Milano (Tipografia Sambrunico-Vismara, 1844), by Giovanni Veladini, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parole lette la sera del giorno 28 Marzo dal professori Francesco Cattaneo e Felice Casorati celebrandosi le solenni esequie del professore Antonio Bordoni. (Tip. Eredi Bizzoni, 1860), by Francesco Cattaneo, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Felice Casorati, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biografia del cavaliere Giuliano Frullani : membro dei XL della Società italiana. (Presso Niccolò Capurro, 1837), by Giovanni Rosini, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

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