Portrait of James Joyce as a Man of Science

The Burndy collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of science is my latest fascination and perhaps the grandest of the Library’s acquisitions in recent years. Donated in 2006 by the Dibner family, the 57,000 volumes will long have a dramatic impact on the study of the history of science. But why, you might wonder, would a Joyce scholar want anything to do with science?