The History of Science and Medicine Web Resources

Science History Portals

• Museo Galileo - including a big history of science index.
• The Echo Research Center catalogues, annotates, and reviews sites on the history of science, technology, and industry. The Echo Center Search, furthermore, incorporates the WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Industry - an index of nearly 5,000 websites, many with excerpts and annotations.
• The Virtual Laboratory is a digitalization project at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) devoted to the history of the experimentalization of life. Its main focus is the interaction between the life sciences, arts and architecture, media and technology.

The Scientific Revolution

• The Scientific Revolution - very comprehensive.
• The Galileo Project - this excellent site includes a useful Catalogue of 16th- and 17th-Century Scientists.
• The Alchemy Web Site - imagery, bibliography, resources, discussion groups and much more.
• Nicolas Copernicus
• The Newton Project
• Eighteenth Century Resources - Science and Mathematics
• Pre-history of Cognitive Science
• Loyola University, Chicago - Jesuits and the Sciences, 1540-1995
• Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Darwin, Evolution, and Nineteenth-Century Science

• The Darwin Project
• Evolution: Theory and History
• The Victorian Web
• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index

History of Medicine

• The Wellcome Library - a major resource for historians of medicine of all periods.
• MedHist - a guide to the history of medicine resources on the Internet.

Other Subject Specific Sites

• History of Mathematics
• Museum of Physics
• History and Policy

Electronic Journals and Discussion Groups

• Journal of the History of Ideas
• Association for History and Computing
• Intellectual History Newsletter

Professional Societies

• British Society for the History of Science
• Science Museum

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