Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
Beside information about ALHFAM,
the Associaton for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums,
you'll find a page of links to living history museum web pages.
http://www.mystic.org/~alhfam
Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
The historical astronomical instruments
of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (Naples) are available
at the URL of the Observatory:
http://oacosf,na.astro.it/
or, directly, at the URL of the Museum:
http://oacosf.na.astro.it/MUSEO/INGLESE/ientratamuseo.html
Caltech Institute Archives
The Institute Archives preserves documents relating to Caltech's history and the history of science. The collective memory of
the school--the papers of Caltech's presidents, the scientific and personal correspondence of its faculty, oral histories,
scientific instruments and photographs--total some one million records to date and form an invaluable primary source for
historians and other scholars.
http://www.caltech.edu/~archives/
Center for Archaeoastronomy
The Center for Archaeoastronomy was founded in 1978 at the University of
Maryland to advance research, education and public awareness of
archaeoastronomy.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/
Center for Environmental Philosophy
This World Wide Web server is dedicated to providing access to
Internet resources throughout the world which pertain to or focus on
environmental ethics and environmental philosophy.
http://www.cep.unt.edu
Center for History of Recent Science
http://gwis.circ.gwu.edu/~recsci/
Centre for Research Policy
The Centre for Research Policy (CRP) is a centre in the Faculty of Commerce
at the University of Wollongong that carries out research into science and
technology policy, research management, and research policy in Australia,
Asia and the APEC region. CRP's primary objective is to take a national
leadership role in supporting research policy, particularly in relation to
improving links between science and industry, and international business
capabilities.
http://www.uow.edu.au/crp/crp.htm
East Asian History of Science Library (EAHoSL)
The Library has its origins in the collections assembled from 1937 onwards by Joseph Needham
and Lu Gwei-Djen, from sources both in China and the Western world. It was originally intended
for the furtherance of the researches on which the Science and Civilisation in China project is
based. No other collection of the kind exists in the Western world, offering such a unique mixture
of primary and secondary works in Chinese, English, Japanese and other languages on the history
of Chinese science, technology and medicine. Besides the holdings of books, microfilms,
periodicals, offprints and manuscripts, it also contains a large quantity of archival and iconographic
material in the form of letters, notes, photographs, maps, etc. which will be of singular benefit to
future research in these fields.
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Needham/library
History of Science Institute & Museum, Florence
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/
Institute and Museum of History of Science Florence ITALY
The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze was founded in 1927 on the
initiative of the University of Florence. It is located in the Palazzo Castellani, in the heart of historic
Florence. The Istituto carries out an important research programme and possesses an ample library.
The collection of the Museum includes around 5000 original items, divided into two fundamental
categories: the apparatus and scientific instruments of the Medici and the Lorenese collection of
instrument and didactic and experimental devices.
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/
Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Institution of Electrical Engineers has added their library and
archival holdings to their web site at:
http://www.iee.org.uk/
The catalog includes their books and leaflets, and they plan to
add their collection of more than 3,000 periodicals soon. The site also
has some good historical images.
Ireland's Historic Science Centre
The castle and estate at Birr, Co. Offaly in Ireland, has been owned by the
Parsons family for over 300 years. In this time, Birr castle demense has seen a
host of scientific and technological achievement, much of which has changed the
world. To help preserve this heritage for future generations, the ``Birr
Scientific and Heritage Foundation'' was formed.
http://itdsrv1.ul.ie/Information/Birr/bshc.html
Linda Hall Library
...an independent research library for science,
engineering, and
technology. The collections are rich in scientific journals (~ 40,000
serial titles), research
monographs (~300,000), conference and symposium proceedings, engineering
standards
and specifications (~ 110,000), patent specifications and trademarks,
unclassified NASA,
DOE, and Government Contractor reports (~ 1.5 million), and geological
maps. Holdings
include the Library of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences acquired
in 1947 and the
Engineering Societies Library transferred in 1995.
http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
http://www.umn.edu/mcps/dept/phil.html
Missouri Botanical Gardens
The site includes a tour of the Garden, a brief history lesson,
the Flora of North America project, information about educational programs,
a gateway to other biological Web sites, and access to our database. Over
600,000 WAIS-indexed records reside in the taxonomic database, accessible
to any Web or gopher user.
http://www.mobot.org/welcome.html
gopher://mobot.org.
Museum of the History of Science on the Internet
The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, provides a WWW service
including an exhibition, available only on the Internet, of early
photographs from the Museum's collection. (These include
a Daguerreotype portrait of Michael Faraday from the
1840s, and photographs by W.H. Fox Talbot, John Herschel
and John Ruskin, among others, all taken in the period up
to 1855.) Also available is news and information from the Museum,
including its teaching and seminar programmes, its publications, and
its newsletter. The pages contain 150 images, all for viewing at two
sizes (low and medium resolution); in addition very large
versions of the images in The Measurers exhibition can be
used for detailed examination. The Museum's URL is:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/departments/hooke/
Netscape should be used if possible.
National Museum of Science & Technology, Canada
The largest of its kind in Canada - this museum fulfills its mission
through its collection, permanent, temporary and travelling exhibits,
special events, school programs, workshops and demonstrations,
publications, loans, conferences and lectures, expert advice and joint
action with other museums and organizations of similar goals and
interests.
http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/eintro.htm
Physics Museum, University of Queensland
http://www.physics.uq.oz.au:8001/physics_museum/homepage.html
Smithsonian FTP sources
Materials for teachers, publications, etc.:
ftp://educate.si.edu
Photos for viewing or downloading:
ftp://photo1.si.edu
Info about its museums:
ftp://simsc.si.edu
