The Buffalo Museum of Science, through collections, research, education and interpretation, provides opportunities for all people to develop a scientific understanding of the natural and cultural world with an emphasis on the Greater Niagara Region. The Museum challenges everyone to use their knowledge of science to enhance respect for each other and the environmen
This exhibit illustrates and describes a selection of original rare and historic maps chosen from the Map Collection of the University of Arizona Library. They portray a region of New Spain once called Pimería and chronicle four centuries of mapping from the earliest map of the region in the collection, a 1556 view of North and South America, up to the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 when Pimería Alta--or southern Arizona--was acquired by the United States from Mexico.
Long before condoms came in rainbow colors and exotic skins, legendary lover Casanova was sewing together strips of fine linen. Centuries before nonoxynol 9, young women in Constantinople shook the gritty sand from sea sponges and dipped them in lemon juice before insertion. Contraception has a long and inventive history. Now there is a museum dedicated to one of humankind's most persistent quests
The Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum is the rare books and manuscripts library of the University of Kansas Medical Center. We actively collect rare books as well as current works in the history of medicine, nursing, and the allied professions. The Library also supports the biomedical ethics and medical humanities curriculum by collecting contemporary secondary works in these areas. Under the auspices of its Museum, the Library also owns hundreds of medical artifacts
This museum is dedicated to the PRESERVATION of historical psychological lore, and instrumentation. It consists of an On-Line Cyber-Museum with downloadable illustrations showing collections of early psychological laboratory research apparatus. As the museum develops, frequent additions will be made to expand the depth and completeness of the coverage of the field of psychology. A bibliography from the University of Toronto internet museum is included which gives relevant publications and other internet links.
All of these books are published here for common benefit, to help students of biology and teachers in learning and research, there is basically no commercial interest and the pages are free from any advertisements. To further enlarge this collection I am mostly dependent on unpaid work done by friends and helpers. All coauthors are acknowledged within the individual texts.
Kurt Stuber, a professor at the Max-Planck-Institute, has scanned 34 historical biology works into this website. Though the texts are in various formats (some are simply images while others are searchable texts) the navigation tools allow for quick movement from page to page and back to the index. Most of these works are in German and by German authors (many of Haeckel's works are here) though there are a few English texts by non-German biologists, most notably Charles Darwin and Maxwell Tylden Masters' "Vegetable Teratology." Scholars of nineteenth century botany or in need of botanical images will find this site particularly useful.
California Views was established in 1970 and is located in historic Monterey, on the California Central Coast, this unique photo archive is the most comprehensive historical photo collection of the Monterey Bay area. Many of the images we have are one of a kind rare and unque images that we have the original glass or film negatives that will insure the best quality in all most any size print.
On time explores the changing ways we have measured, used, and thought about time ove the past three hundred years.
Welcome the Smitsonian's virtual museum. The Smitsonian preserves and cares for more than 140 million objects in sixteen museums and several research facilities, archives and libraries, and maintains living animals in the National Zoological Park.
Welcome to the NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center History Office. This website is a gateway to the historical archives of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Discover how MSFC was established, browse through historical articles about various space developments, and MSFC's contributions to the American Space Program.
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