Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His conception of the Memex introduced, for the first time, the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson were directly inspired by his work, and, in particular, his ground-breaking article, "As We May Think."
This site is dedicated to preserving the memory of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier and promoting research and scholarship into his work. Most significant are are the 'chapters' about Lavoisier's life and work which provides a brief overview by an author who has written a full biography of Lavoisier. In addition to describing Lavoisier's work in the fields of meteorology, geology, biology, chemistry and physiology, the biography also discusses his economic and political life. These pages also include links to Lavoisier-related webpages, a fairly complete bibliography and a list of recently published books about Lavoisier. Though the editing is choppy at times, the site is generally useful and a good place to start for learning about Lavoisier.
By acquiring, preserving, and making available for research offciial university records, personal papers, mermorabilia and other materials of enduring historical value that document the development of Jefferson and its constituent institutions, affiliates, and alumni, the department points to where Thomas Jefferson University is heading by documenting where it has been/.
You have reached the most comprehensive web site (and the only interactive one) dealing with the history of the Manhattan Project. Amongst our 3,300+ web pages you will find more than 2,800 primary source documents, the names of more than 14,000 Manhattan Project veterans, military and civilian, and a detailed text history of all of the major sites of the Manhattan Project. In addition, you will find the biographies of more than 100 key scientists.
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This site hosts a wide variety of primary documents and photographs of the Manhattan Project. Though it includes biographies and the correspondence of important scientists, the site is largely dedicated to the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project in less visible positions - such as Military Police and Secretaries. The webmasters claim: "Our primary mission is to preserve a place in American History for the thousands of men and women who, against seemingly impossible odds, achieved technological brilliance through their relentless pursuit of atomic energy; a feat that ultimately brought about the end of World War II."
One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his method for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was constant, and a number of approximations had been given up to that point in time by the Babylonians, Egyptians, and even the Chinese. There are some authors who claim that a biblical passage1 also implies an approximate value of 3 (and in fact there is an interesting story2 associated with that).
The Athanasius Kircher correspondence project was created with the goal of making the manuscript correspondence of Athanasius Kircher available on the Internet. The project was commenced through the collaboration of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the European University Institute in Fiesole, under the direction of Michael John Gorman and Nick Wilding. Since September 2000, the project has been rehoused at Stanford University. A new searchable version of the correspondence, using Luna Insight software has been developed at Stanford, and is now available to researchers. Comments on the new interface are very welcome.
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) wrote over thirty separate works dealing with subjects ranging from optics to music, from Egyptology to magnetism. He invented a universal language scheme, attacked the possibility of alchemical transmutation and devised a host of remarkable pneumatic, hydraulic, catoptric and magnetic machines, which he displayed to visitors to his famous museum, housed in the Jesuit Collegio Romano. His books, lavishly illustrated volumes destined for Baroque princes with a love of the curious and exotic, are permeated with a strong element of the Hermetic philosophy of the Renaissance, synthesized with the Christianized Aristotelianism of the Jesuit order to which Kircher belonged. The Correspondence Project is a digital database of many of the letters sent to and from Kircher to over 700 correspondents around the world. Many entries are cross references to diagrams and sketches.
The Will C. Sealy History of Medicine Library and the Mercer University School of Medicine Archives houses historical and archival materials about the founding and history of the Mercer School of Medicine. In addition, the Sealy Library collects and makes available books and other history items to foster a broader understanding of and deeper appreciation for early Georgia medicine, the health of its citizens, and the early medical education of its primary care physicians.
Niels Henrik Abel, born August 5 of 1802, and dead April 16 of 1829, were a brilliant Norwegian mathematician. It won a wide recognition to the age of 18 with their first Work in that it proved that the general equation of fifth degree is insoluble for algebraic procedures.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in or near Rome around the year 480 A.D. Orphaned young, he was brought up in the household of one of the richest and most venerable aristocrats of the time, Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter and pursued a typical career for a senatorial scion of the time, alternating between ceremonial public office and private leisure.
After reading James Watson's The Double Helix (1968), Anne Sayre began working on an account of the role of Rosalind Franklin in the discovery of the structure of DNA. Sayre felt that the portrait of her friend Franklin (who had died in 1958) that emerged from Watson's book was not only unflattering, but wrong. After publication of Rosalind Franklin and DNA in 1975, Sayre deposited all her research materials with the ASM Archives: background materials and notes; correspondence; and interviews (taped and, in some instances, transcribed). Of additional interest is the file of post-publication correspondence, which provides insight into the reaction to Sayre's book.
