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History of Science

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This subject guide is a good starting place for researching topics in the history of science; however, you might also look at Religion or European History subject guides.

Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Selected Online Resources

 
Historical Abstracts


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Cambridge History of Science

  America:History and Life


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ABOUT     Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines, historical periods, concepts.

New Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
History of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists.
Coverage: Antiquity to modern times
  American Periodicals Series Online
1760-1900

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Web Resource

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Dgitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain unique visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations. The collection also includes two unique sets of visual materials from the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries
This catalog is a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members fo the scientific community during the 16th & 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science..

Forest History Society
A fully-searchable bibliography with some 20,000+ entries; a searchable guide to archival resources in 450+ repositories across the USA; and a comprehensive oral history program with a seachable index. Also includes information about the society, membership, publications and its own archives and library.

Nobel Foundation
Information on Nobel, the prizes and the Laureates.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Links to additional sites, short biographies of over 1,200 mathematicians, and short histories of math topics.

Classic Chemistry
The principal purpose of this site is to post the texts of several classic papers from the history of chemistry. This site also contains pointers to a few other chemistry-related sites. Also includes "This Week in the History of Chemistry" with links to sites about the listed person or events.

Science & Society Picture Library
Over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum.

 

History of Science Reference Works

The History of women and science, health, and technology : a bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines.
Reference Z7963.S3 H58 1993
Dictionary of the history of science
Reference Q 125 .D45
Timetables of science
Reference Q 125 .H557 1988
Breakthroughs: a chronology of great acievements in science and mathematics, 1200-1930
Reference Q 125 .P327 1985
Bibliography of the history of medicine
Reference Govt HE 20.3615

 

Library contact:

For more information, contact:
LaVerne Winn
Science Reference Librarian
PHONE# 207-786-8328
e-mail: lwinn AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: LaVerne Winn
Date: 11/14/08


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