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History of Science and Science Studies
NEW!! DARWIN'S NOTEBOOKS
- The Complete Work of
Charles Darwin Online "the largest and most widely
used Darwin publication in history". Cambridge
University Library has placed Charles Darwin's private notes, drafts, and recipes
on the Web. The
collection, which includes the first draft of On The Origin of
Species, comprises some 20,000 items and 90,000 images.
- Nature Magazine's landmark
issue 409: 6822 (2001) featuring a special section on the
human genome. As well as the core mapping, sequencing and 'data
mining' papers between pages 814 and 958, the 'timeline for the
genome' is presented on page 754, and Words, Concepts and News
Features pay their dues to the genomic event of the year, or
decade, or…
Nature also presents a special
section of the Genome Gateway to mark the publication of
the initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. The
larger Genome Gateway site
is a comprehensive web resource devoted to genomics. Access is
free and the Gateway provides: a library
of original research papers, incliding relevant News and
Views articles, a news
service from Nature and Nature
Genetics, a post-genomics
section, covering the myriad applications of sequencing research
and the technologies, and a set
of links to the most useful and informative genomics sites
on the web.
- Science Magazine's
Human Genome
Special Issue- with free access to all users (full-text content
to the journal is limited to subscribers - available at Stanford)
Includes the original article by Craig Venter (Celera) et al.
The
Sequence of the Human Genome and special feature on Genome
Landmarks, an essay on the history of genomics entitled Journey
to the Center of Biology.
Also available on Science Online (web only) is a special site
dedicated to Functional
Genomics; it's newest feature on the Human
Genome provides a collection of resources related to the sequence,
it's science, and its meaning
- Celera Genomics - Company's
website features a Genome
News Network which includes articles, news and a Genes
and Genomics Timeline
General
- Internet
for History and Philosophy of Science Tutorial that covers
the key information skills for the Internet environment. Learn
how to use the Internet to help with your coursework, literature
searching, teaching or research.
- History of Science,
Technology and Medicine WWW Virtual Library
- Extensive Resources, but the site is no longer being maintained. It will remain
available for as long as it is deemed useful, however, the number
of dead links will inevitably grow.
- Voice of
the Shuttle Science, Technology, and Culture Page Extensive
list of resources on science, medicine, technology, and cultural-studies/historical
approaches to science designed for humanists interested in the
relation between sci-tech and society. The emphasis is on materials
that reflect upon, historicize, critique, collect, exhibit, or
otherwise mediate (and mediatize) sci-tech rather than on scientific
research per se.
- Internet Resources
for Science Studies from UCSD, the aim of this page is to
present a selective rather than exhaustive listing of the most
useful general and special resources for science studies on the
Internet.
- Yahoo! History
of Science
- History
of Science & Technology Guide to internet resources from
the University of Delaware. Comprehensive list of links.
- Virtual
STS Social and Cultural
Studies of Science on the Web offers a compilation of links, reviews
and on-line documents of interest to researchers in the fields
of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociology of Science
and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology.
- History
of Science and Technology from the German WWW Virtual Library
(in German)
- Webopedia An online dictionary and search engine. Some historical content
(see "SQL" or "personal computer" for examples).
- Nobel prize in Physics & Chemistry
- Biographical
Memoirs The National Academy Press (NAP), publisher for the
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), has mounted HTML and PDF
editions of 264 of its Biographical Memoirs.
- Pathways
Of Discovery Science Magazine's special series of monthly
essays running throughout the year 2000 . Each month a knowledgeable,
engaging, and well-known scientist-essayist will tell a story
about how a particular contemporary "breakthrough" area emerged,
developed, and ascended to its present exciting level. These breakthrough
areas range from quantum physics to astrophysics, and from genomics
to atmospheric sciences. Each of these essayists will portray
the mix of rational, non-rational, institutional, psychological,
and other human factors that make science work.
Libraries &
Museums
- Albert Einstein,
1905 Hosted by the University of Minesota Science and Engineering
Library, SCIWEB features online Einstein resources, including
contemporary articles..
- Epact: Scientific Instruments
of Medieval and Renaissance Europe Electronic catalogue of
medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European
museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto
e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence , the British Museum,
London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Consists of 520 catalogue
entries and a variety of supporting material. All European instruments
from the four museums by makers who were active before 1600 have
been entered in the catalogue.
- The Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource developed by the Royal
Society Library and funded by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Trust. The Resource is a biographical database of Fellows of the
Royal Society from its inception in 1660 to the present day (excluding
the current Fellowship) and includes some 8,000 figures from the
history of science.
- Burndy Library catalog
at MIT from the Dibner Institute of Science and Technology
- The Science Service Historical Image Collection
from the Smithsonian Institution represents 20th century scientific
research consisting of images and original captions as they appeared
in period publications.
- The Library of
the Institute and Museum of History of Science in Florence
The special holdings include the Medici-Lorena collection and
eighteenth-nineteenth century collections pertaining to the physical
and mathematical sciences. The manuscript section houses documents,
letters and treatises from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Of special interest are the Archives of the Reale Museo di Fisica
e Storia Naturale and the Archives of the Meetings of Italian
Scientists
- Jesuits
and the Sciences 1540-1995 An exhibit of rare scientific works
from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica at Loyola University of
Chicago.
- Museum
of the History of Science in Oxford- The Museum library holdings
number approximately 20,000 In addition to its main theme of scientific
instruments, the library also has strong antiquarian holdings
in those sciences most involved with instrumentation, particularly
astronomy, geometry, optics, chemistry, and physics (natural or
experimental philosophy). It also has unexpected strengths in
some other fields, such as zoology, botany, and the medical sciences,
and a traditional interest in Oxford science and in the history
of museums.
- Deutsches
Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik
in Munich. In English or German, includes multimedia exhibits,
library, and archives of materials related to the history of science
and technology.
- The "Museum
voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen "(
Museum for the History of Sciences)of the University of Ghent
(Belgium)
- "Theatre
of Nature and Art - Treasure-trove of Knowledge" An exhibition
organised by Humboldt-Universität Berlin in cooperation with the
Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Freie Universität
Berlin, Berliner Festspiele GmbH and Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Deutscher Forschungszentren. The diverse objects from a multitude
of different areas reveal anew the connections linking various
disciplines and research projects.
Universities
& Programs
Databases & Research Resources
- History of Science/Science Studies Reference Sources
- Internet
History of Science Sourcebook Large links list to primary
texts divided by historical period and field.
- International
Galilean Bibliography (BIGAL) 1965-1997 Totals 3000 records
derived, for the most part, from an analysis of the ISIS Current
Bibliography, the Bulletin Signaletique and the
Italian Bibliography of the History of Science, as well as
from the material in the possession of the Istituto e Museo di
Storia della Scienza in Florence. NOTE: seach in in Italian only.
- Selected
Classic Papers in the History of Chemistry from Le Moyne College
and similar list in John Park's ChemTeam
site, which also includes some papers in the history of physics
- Alchemical
Texts over 1700 images and more than 200 complete alchemical
texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books
and manuscripts, articles, introductory and general reference
material on alchemy.
- BISS Italian Bibliography of the History of
Science
- ASAPWeb Australian Science Archives Project
- Science
Texbooks & Historical Science - online science textbooks
and historical works; the viewer is directed to the different
sites using the approximate date that the book was written.
- STS Links (NCSU)
- 19th Century Scientific American OnLine 1845 - 1859,
Volumes I - XIV. Presently Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13,and
14 indices are online in their data base. Volumes I and II never
had indices; they are in the process of creating indices for them.
Volume 9, 10 and 12 will be added soon. This site is not affiliated
with the Scientific American Magazine
published today.
Journals
- JSTOR Web project
based at the University of Michigan that makes the full runs (but
for the past 3-5 years) of academic journals freely available
on the internet. They made their name with humanities and economics
journals, but they have recently branched out into general science.
They have now posted the complete Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society back to 1665, and the full run of Science
back to 1880. They also have collections of important ecology
and botany ournals, as well as some math and statistics.
NOTE: restricted to institutions with subsciptions - available
at Stanford
- Science Magazine -
- Electronic
Journals available at Stanford University NOTE: some of these
electronic journals may be restricted to Stanford affiliates only,
due to licensing or purchase arrangements.
- Isis
An official publication of the History of Science Society, it
is the oldest (and most widely circulating) English-language journal
in the field.
- Perspectives on
Science Places medical and biological issues in a broader
humanistic, social, and scientific context, available through
Project Muse,
- Centaurus
International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science,
and Technology
- Issues in Science &
TechnologyForum for discussion of public policy related to
science, engineering, and medicine.
- Bulletin
of News in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Published since May 1995, it aims to disseminate news and useful
information to teachers, researchers, and other interested people
in Spain as well as in the Latin American community. In English
& Spanish
- Configurations
The official publication of the Society for Literature and Science,
it the only journal devoted to the study of discourse pertaining
to the theories and practices of science, technology, and medicine.
The journal explores the relations of literature and the arts
to the sciences and technology.
- Science Magazine -
leading global weekly journal of research which serves the scientific
community as a forum for the presentation and discussion of important
issues related to the advancement of science.
- Nature - leading
international weekly journal of science.
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May 13, 2008
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