19th Century Scientific American
The Scientific American of the 19th century bears little resemblance its
20th century sibling. The first volume was a four page 15 x 20 newspaper that
provided the reader poetry, religious news, interesting tid-bits from around the
country and technical news and instruction.
http://idevelop.com/sa.htm
African Americans in the Sciences
Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the
advancement of science and engineering. The accomplishments of the past and present
can serve as pathfinders to present and future engineers and scientists. African
American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have
contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the
history of science. By describing the scientific history of selected African
American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human
understanding in the world around us.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html
The Alchemy Web Site
This Alchemy Web site has over 9.6 megabytes of information organised into
about 400 individual sections (with over 1000 A4 pages of text), and 150
graphic images. It was first launched on 7th May 1995 and new pages will
continually be added.
http://www.colloquium.co.uk/alchemy/home.html
Archives of Scientific Philosophy
These holdings include the scholarly papers of Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach,
Frank Plumpton Ramsey, and Paul Hertz. In addition, the Archives holds microfilm
copies of the papers of Herbert Feigl (the originals being housed at the University
of Minnesota). The Archives also includes the private working libraries of Carnap
and Reichenbach and microfilm copies of the manuscripts of Ludwig Wittgenstein and
the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics. Most materials are housed in the
Special Collections Department of the University's Hillman Library.
www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/special/asp/archive.html
The Art of Renaissance Science
This program is based upon a videotape by the author entitled "The Art of
Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective." It is an article for a
hypermedia scholarly journal being created in cooperation with the Science and
Engineering Television Network, Inc.
http://bang.lanl.gov/video/stv/arshtml/lanlarstitle.html
AstroEd
Con noticias, efemerides, enciclopedias, vocabulario, mas de 1500 links, listas de
correo, newsgroups, conversacion en tiempo real, y mucho mas !
http://casal.upc.es/~aess/astronomia/aaa/astrored/introgra.html
Astronomy FTP sites
This is a short description of anonymous-ftp file servers containing
astronomy and space research related material.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/faq/astroftp.html
Astronomy in Japan
You will find articles in English about Japanese Starlore and Astronomical
History as well as significant Activities of Amateur Astronomers in Japan.
http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html
Athenians
This Attic prosopography has a much wider compass than J. Kirchner's
Prosopographia Attica: PA had 15,588 entries, was limited to the pre-Augustan
period, and contained only bona fide Athenian citizens, while Persons of Ancient
Athens, with more than 100,000 entries, includes Athenian citizens at home and
abroad, slaves, resident aliens, and foreigners honored at Athens -- all the known
men and women of Athens from the beginning of alphabetic writing to the Byzantine
period. Based on the Meritt card-file at the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, PAA also includes full references with texts to document each
biographical fact.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/attica/
Australian Science Archives Project
Resources on ASAPWeb include:
- Physics in Australia to 1945 - a WWW version of this bibliography
and biographical register originally compiled by Rod Home.
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Australian Academy of
Science - originally published in _Historical Records of Australian
Science_. (Some include photographs.)
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/
Biographical Dictionary of Sci,Tech,Med
Links to
information on about 60 scientists have been brought together to form this
resource.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAP/WWWVL-HSTM.html
Classical Constellations and Star Myths
http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/
Clive Ruggles's Resource Information
...gives preliminary access to some 1300 images of archaeological and
archaeoastronomical interest including sites in Britain, mainland Europe,
Mesoamerica, South America, Australia and Polynesia. Pictures and captions
are of variable quality, so please take them as you find them.
http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~rug/STILE/
Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures
is http://www.kunskapsbolaget.com/DAHAP/
Directory of Historians of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history
Doomed Engineers
...compiled by John Redford (jlr@world.std.com). On it Mr. Redford
writes: "A subject of morbid but peculiar fascination. It's certainly unwholesome
to relish the stories of those who are like us, and perhaps greater than
us, but who come to spectacularly bad ends, yet such stories provide a
certain satisfaction... So here's a list of the tragic and failed from
newest to oldest. Most were brought down by their own characters, some by
bad luck or malice. Biographies and pictures (when completed!) lie behind
the links."
http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/doom_eng.htm
Educational Dimensions
This web page is a resource for curriculum development and alternative assessment. Comments and
participation are invited. This is a site from which you can download files and link to other
educational resources on the net.
http://www.netaxis.com/~dpropp/
Entomology Resources
...a complete list of institutions that have World Wide Web (WWW) sites
describing their degree programs in Entomology.
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/ent.html
Expanding Universe
...a classified search tool for amateur astronomy.
http://www.mtrl.toronto.on.ca/centres/bsd/astronomy/
The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo
We have prepared an online version of an exhibition
catalog that was originally published in 1989. The
catalog was written by William B. Ashworth, Jr and it
won the First Place Award in the annual competition
sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/moon/cover.htm
Galileo Project
http://www.rice.edu/Galileo/
GeoClio
Webserver for the History of Geology and the
Geosciences
http://geoclio.st.usm.edu
History of Astronomy
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
History of Cartography
The page is aimed at anyone, whether specialist or browser, who is potentially
interested in non-current maps and wants to know how to find out more about
them.
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
History of Chemistry (ACS)
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/index.htm#homepage
History of Economics
This site is run in conjunction with the HES email list,
which the History of Economics Society sponsors. The site contains
information about the History of Economics Society and
its activities, and links to resources for historians of
economics--including electronic texts, course syllabi, journals,
conferences and seminars, and the archive of the HES email list.
http://cs.muohio.edu/~HisEcSoc/
HISTLINE - History of Medicine, Online Bibliography
HISTLINE is the online
bibliography of work in the history of medicine maintained by the
US National Library of Medicine; it complements the RLIN/HSS bibliography
in the history of science and technology.
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
History Departments Around the World
History Departments Around the World, hosted by the Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University, is an online database which
includes the URLs for more than 900 history departments' web pages.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/
History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology
This website is devoted to the World-Wide Web resources for historians of
Russian and Soviet science and technology. The site includes links to major
institutions, journals, societies, and other relevant websites, and a directory of researchers in the field. A huge part of the Guide is an on-line
Bibliography of the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology. The site also features syllabi of relevant courses and contains links
to current research projects in the field.
http://web.mit.edu/slava/guide
History of the Light Microscope
This is a fairly complete document which covers everything from the
early development of optical lenses, to the first microscope of 1595,
to the 20th century, illustrated with over 50 images.
It covers the different designs of stands, optical innovations, and
some of the early microscopists and what they did.
http://www.duke.edu/~tj/hist/hist_mic.html
Images of Tycho Brahe
The Museum of the History
of Science in Oxford has opened a virtual exhibition on the Internet,
'The Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe'. The exhibition is centred around a
painting by Eduard Ender in the Museum's collection depicting an imagined
scene in the life of the sixteenth-century Danish astronomer.
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/tycho/
The Internet World Exposition
As we leave the industrial age and enter a new age of information, it is time for a new kind of world's
fair. This one will continue throughout 1996. This is the first world's fair where anybody can open a
pavilion, where anybody can participate.
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/
The Journal of Syms Covington
Covington, who was eighteen years old when he
began keeping this journal, was Charles Darwin's assistant on the second
voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836.
The Journal not only provides a new perspective of the journey which
helped stimulate Darwin's theory of evolution, it also includes accounts of
Covington's daily duties, which included finding food for Darwin at each
port of call. It also records Covington's impressions of lands and people
encountered over five years of voyaging in the New World.
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/covingto/contents.htm
Medieval Science
This page is intended to
provide a convenient and comprehensive set of links to all web
resources worldwide which deal with aspects of medieval science, both
in Western and other cultures.
http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html
MendelWeb
...an educational resource for teachers and students
interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data
analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of
science. Constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche ¶ber
Pflanzen-Hybriden" and a revised version of William Bateson's English
translation of the paper, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization",
MendelWeb is offered as a public sourcebook and collaboartive
environment compatible with a variety of guided and independent
studies.
http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/
New Science Issues and Their Impact
With funding provided from the Department of Defense, the Foreign Policy Institute at the Nitze
School for Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) is sponsoring this project
to examine ways in which developments in science and technology are likely to affect the
international system. Led by Francis Fukuyama, The Institute for Public Policy, George Mason
University, and Caroline Wagner, Critical Technologies Institute at RAND, the project will run
from November 1996 until June 1997.
http://www.rand.org/centers/cti/newsci
The Nobel Channel
http://www.nobelchannel.com
The One-stop Philosophy Page
If you are looking for philosophy resources on the Internet, this is
the place to look.
http://www.rpi.edu/~cearls/phil.html
On-Line Images from the History of Medicine
...an experimental World-Wide
Web-based
service which provides interactive multimedia access over the Internet to
over
59,000 items from the HMD prints and photographs collection. The user can
enter textual descriptions of images into a form. The catalog is searched,
matching images identified, and a summary report generated. The user is
then
allowed to download browsable subsets of the images found, each subset
containing from 1-40 images. Images can be viewed in larger size, marked
for
later retrieval as a special subset, and printed or saved locally. The
corresponding textual catalog entries can be displayed as well.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
On-Line Microscopes
Here you will find the images and descriptions of
over 40 microscopes, ranging from the 1760s through the 1920s. Some of the
instruments are presented with their intricately designed mahogany cases
and close-up views of the names of their makers engraved on brass. The
exhibit features mostly 19th-century instruments, revealing the various
phases in the evolution of the scientific microscope and the art of
microscope making.
http://www.utmb.edu/mml/scopes/welcome.htm
The OTA Legacy
The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. During
its 23-year history, OTA provided Congressional members and committees with objective
and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late
20th century. It was a leader in practicing and encouraging delivery of public services
in innovative and inexpensive ways, including distribution of government documents
through electronic publishing. This site honors that legacy by making available in
electronic form the complete collection of OTA publications along with additional
materials that illuminate the history and impact of the agency.
http://www.wws.princeton.edu:80/~ota/
Penn Bioethics page
The Penn Bioethics site includes the new version of the University of
Chicago/Penn Global Philosophy & Genetics Project, as well as a constantly
updated page of links to major resources in bioethics. Information about
and mailboxes for the Center faculty and staff are located here, as well as
updated news about coming events (the AAB meeting, etc.).
http://www.med.upenn.edu/~bioethic/
Philosophy in Cyberspace
http://www.phil.indiana.edu/otherres.html
Philosophy News
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/PhilNowNews.html
Philosophy of Science in Britain
http://www.herts.ac.uk/humanities/philosophy/philsci.html
Physics Lecture Demonstrations' Collection
The Physics Demonstrations' Server is an effort to make available an
on-line source of information and pictures used for preparing and
performing undergraduate lecture demonstrations at the University of
California, Berkeley, Department of Physics. This site deals with
demonstrations for the subjects of: Mechanics, Waves, The Properties of
Heat and Matter , Electricity and Magnetism, and Optics.
Demonstrations in Modern and Contemporary Physics as well as Astronomy
and Perception will be coming soon.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/physics.html
Plato and his Dialogues
... many conflicting
theories have been developed by scholars of various times regarding the
interpretation of the dialogues and their chronology to the extent it bears
on that interpretation. This set of pages intends to present a new theory on the
interpretation of Plato's dialogues and "philosophy".
http://phd.evansville.edu/plato.htm
Prologue
The Prologue Group is a consultancy specializing in corporate and industrial history. We
bring all the training and expertise needed to help companies tell their stories with
vibrancy, accuracy, and analytical insight. Since 1986 companies have called on The
Prologue Group for a wide variety of projects--in many industries, across the country,
with a range of formats, and to reach a variety of audiences.
http://www.prologuegroup.com/prologue/
A Propos of Science
This book contains a fine selection of nearly 1200 quotations divided into 77 sections, ranging from
"administration on science" to "writing". In order to facilitate selective reading we provided an authors
index as well as a subject index.
http://callisto.worldonline.nl/~cb003606/
Psychology of Science
http://www.nici.kun.nl/psych.of.science/welcome.html
RLIN History of Science & Technology file
The History of Science and Technology file (HST) includes references from Isis
Current Bibliography of the History of Science, 1976-present, and Current
Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), 1987-present.
Records describe journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews,
and dissertations.
telnet://rlin.stanford.edu
prompt: command:
------- --------
account? Y6.F17
password? SCIENCE
SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html
Science and Technology in Ancient India
This book aims at disproving the generally held belief that in
ancient times India had only been a land of spiritual development
with modest achievements as far as material culture goes. In the
opinion of many Westerners as well as some educated Indians,
ancient India was only a land of sages, seers. hermits and
philosophers or Sadhus, Sanyasis, Rishis and Gurus as they
are called. But though spiritual philosophies did flower in India,
they were not the only contribution of this country to the world's culture.
http://members.tripod.com/~sudbee/book.html
Science as Culture
The object of this WWW site is to provide food for thought, to stimulate debate and
to obtain constructive criticism for articles. That is, we hope to enhance
interesting discussion about the issues which led us to set up the journal and
email forum.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html
Science Sources
Science Sources is a resource tool that provides a listing of
names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, internet and homepage
addresses (when available) for more than 1,000 scientific
organizations worldwide. Popular with journalists, researchers, and
students, Science Sources is compiled and maintained by the News
and Information Office at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the world's largest non-profit general
science organization. Founded in 1848, AAAS is dedicated to
increasing the public's understanding and appreciation of science
and technology.
http://sci.aaas.org/sources/index.html
Science, Technology, and Society index - U. Alberta
http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/scitech/kmc.htm
A Selection of Web Sources for the History of Science
The sites selected for this list conform loosely to criteria determined by the nature of the
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
and the students and scholars who have either visited it in Florence or have had reason to come to its Homepage. There is
no attempt to provide a full listing of internet resources for the history of science or its many sister disciplines; it is hoped that
the sources indicated will give access to that wider world. The Istituto is one of the main centers for those disciplines in Italy
and Europe, and it provides several on-line services, including this one. The Museo has an important, specialized collection
of scientific instruments and artifacts. Emphasized here, then, are Italian and European sites with related activities or
interests. Emphasized also are sites which are the result of concerted efforts on the part of their designers to explore the use
of the internet for serious research and teaching, wherever they may be in the world.
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/~tsettle/index.html
SKEPTIC (paranormal & fringe science)
...an Annotated Bibliography of books on paranormal and fringe science
topics, mainly from a skeptical/critical point of view. Periodicals
and Internet resources are also listed.
http://www.csicop.org/bibliography/
The Sokal Affair
Early in the Spring of 1996, Social Text published an essay
suggesting a link in quantum mechanics and postmodernism by
Professor Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University. On the day of publication Sokal announced in Lingua Franca that the article had in
fact been a hoax. In "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a
Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," Spring/Summer
1996 issue of Social Text, we find one of the first direct attacks in a
major journal against the institution of cultural studies. This page is a brief summary of that issue.
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jwalsh/sokal/
Space Calendar
This Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries
for the upcoming year.
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Technothings
Written by Tim Rogers and Introduced by Steve Fuller, Technothings is an
interactive Sci-tech sight with a collection of links, papers, essays and
learning resources from undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars at the
university of Durham. The whole point of technothings is to create a
forum for people to make their work available to others with the intention
of sharing their knowledge and to get feedback for their work.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dss8zz2/tec.htm
This month in Space History
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/history.html
Thomas A. Edison Papers
The original goal of the project was
to organize and publish a select
edition of the papers of Thomas Alva
Edison in two formsÑa six-part
microfilm publication and a book
edition of fifteen to twenty volumes.
http://edison.rutgers.edu
UnCover Periodical Table of Contents service
CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) has for many years
been providing a table of contents service called UnCover. Such a
service gives a user the table of contents of periodicals as they
are issued so that one may decide which articles to read or
quickly survey current research and publishing in one's field.
CARL indexes over 17,000 journals world-wide (primarily English
but also many other languages), and is the largest database
of its type.
To access the database, telnet to:
192.54.81.76.
- At the first screen, enter your terminal type, such as VT100.
- At the next screen, indicate that you wish to use the Uncover
file, no. 1. When you are asked for an access password,
press enter, and you will be given open access.
- At the following screen, you can create your profile (new).
At the end of this process, you will be given a profile number.
With it, you will be able to mark the journals for which
you wish to receive the table of contents. These notices are
sent within a few days of the publication of each journal.
- To mark with your profile number the journals for which you
wish to receive the table of contents, go into the database
and search for the journals (JO) by title.
Should you have difficulty in subscribing, you can send a message to:
atabase@carl.org.
Virtual Library of Science, Technology, and Medicine
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm
Wavelength Magazine
This is the Web presence for Wavelength magazine which carries articles
that explore the historical, social and cultural contexts of science. It also carries
fiction and more 'traditional'
science features and in addition it aims to provide a critical forum for
issues surrounding the public understanding of science movement.
http://science.btc.uwe.ac.uk/~waveleng/home.html
