A colorful American historian and longtime scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Bedini was
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ripts on astronomy, chemistry, and more. At HSNY, we recently acquired a selection of books from Bedini's personal library, which had been sold to Second Story Books in Washington, D.C.
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