History of Science: Websites & Texts

Contains images, resources, bibliographies, texts, and much more.

The BSHM-British Society for the History of Mathematics' extensive list of Web sites relevant to the study of history of mathematics, statistics, and computing. Good resources for teaching.

Collection of over 600 biographies on scientists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Searchable by over 20 different fields from obvious choices like Name to more obscure details like patronage and scientific society memberships.

Devoted to the history of modern physics and allied fields, including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like.

Contains a searchable timeline of computer history and photographs from the Museum's collection of artifacts.

Timeline of Computer History provided by the Computer History Museum.

Online collection of materials relating to the history of computing.

Part of the University of Pennsylvania's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image. Contains digital facsimiles of rare materials. Pictures include scientists, and some laboratories and scientific apparatus.

Searchable membership directory for these two societies.

Links to full text and web resources on the internet, from the Greco-Roman period to the Bomb and NASA.

Exhibit of rare scientific works from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica, Loyola University of Chicago.

Biographical information on Members of the NAS. Includes links to the 264 Biographical Memoirs of select deceased members.

A Library of Congress bibliography and research guide to the subject area.

Large collection of writings by and about Darwin. Contains publications, handwritten manuscripts, and Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue. There are also over 250 supplementary texts, from reference works, reviews, obituaries, and biographies.

Searchable texts of more than 6000 letters written by Charles Darwin and information about 9000 more, as well as essays and other contextual material.

Digitized portion (partly reconstructed) of Charles Darwin's vast scientific library, including his scribbled notes in the margins.

The goal is to create database of the "Jahrbuch ?ber die Fortschritte der Mathematik" (JFM) and an electronic archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1943.

Contains more than 3,000 biographies, full-text historical articles, and famous curves index.

Facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of documents pertaining to the September 1941 meeting of Bohr and Heisenberg. Also contains links to annual reports, photographs, and more.

Full text of books from the University of California's Press eScholarship Editions. Some marked "public" may be used by anyone from off campus. Most titles are also available in print at the UCSD Libraries.