At the Library of Congress. Totally impressive. Completely a Renaissance man. The sheer range of books on every topic from philosophy to political thought to mathematics is stupendous.
They are organized by topic.
It is amusing to note that books by Bernoulli and Newton, and treatises on Euclid rub shoulders with practical books on how to construct a set of weights and measures, and surveying. No artificial distinction between theory and practice.
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