Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Science & Mathematics

Science and Mathematics

• General Resources:
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine -- Large archive of Web resources on the history of science.
  • Bob Bruen's History of Science Page -- Bruen's own essays and links to other resources.
  • Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography (Virginia) -- Brief biographical sketches for hundreds of scientists and mathematicians, including some portraits. Requires frames.
  • Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1995 (Loyola Univ. of Chicago) -- Information on Jesuit contributions to the sciences, including images and some rare E-texts. Arranged chronologically.
  • Pre-History of Cognitive Science Web (Carl Stahmer, UCSB) -- A thoroughly annotated bibliography on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-c. models of human cognition. Only a few figures are represented so far.
  • Evolution: Theory and History (Rob and David Polly, Berkeley) -- Extensive site on evolutionary theory, with brief accounts of many 18th-c. figures, including Hooke, Buffon, Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin, Lamarck, Malthus, and Cuvier.
  • The Euler Project (Ed Sandifer, Connecticut State) -- Information on and selections from texts by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
• Mathematics:
  • History of Mathematics (University of St. Andrews) -- Extensive general site on the history of maths. Includes brief discussions of hundreds of mathematicians, bibliographies, and timelines.
  • Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Trinity College Dublin) -- Short accounts of a few dozen mathematicians, taken from W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th Edition, 1908).
  • History of Mathematics (Clark) -- Briefly annotated list of other Web resources.
  • The Geometry of War, 1500-1750 (Oxford) -- Information from an exhibition on early modern military architecture.
  • The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (Robert Bruen, Harvard) -- Includes portraits and brief information on the Lucasian Professors of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753) (David R. Wilkins, Trinity College Dublin) -- Biography, bibliography, original essays, and links on Berkeley, as part of a history of mathematics archive. Very impressive.
• Medicine:
  • Yale Medical Library: Historical Library -- Information on the collection, along with some bibliographies of important sources.
  • History of Medicine Division, NLM -- Includes 60,000 images, some from the eighteenth century. Some are freely available; for others, only bad thumbnails are available.
• Scientific Instruments:
  • Museum of Physics Department (Naples) -- Includes an exhibition on early scientific instruments.
• Galileo:
  • The Galileo Project Homepage (Rice) -- Extensive hypertext site on Galileo's life and works, with chronologies, a bibliography, links, and images and descriptions of places and scientific instruments.
• Haller:
  • Berner Haller-Projekt -- Biographical data on Albrecht von Haller, 1708-77, and informationon the project to publish his works. In English and German.
• La Mettrie:
  • Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Wisconsin) -- Very brief page on La Mettrie, with the text of L'Homme machine (in English) and a brief bibliography.
• Lavoisier:
  • Lavoisier's Friends (France) -- Extensive information on Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, including a images, reviews, and a large bibliography. English and French. Requires frames.
• Carolus Linnaeus:
  • The Linnean Correspondence (Bengt Jonsell, c18) -- A large scholarly archive of Linnaeus's correspondence, with extensive background information.
  • Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) (David McNeil) -- Index of Web resources, including pointers to library catalogues.
  • Carolus Linnaeus (UTEP) -- A timeline and photographs of title pages of a number of works.
• Newton:
  • Newtonia: pages about Sir Isaac Newton (Andrew McNab, CERN) -- Extensive index of Newton material, including biographies, bibliography, maps, chronologies, quotations, anecdotes, and links.