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This guide is provided as a monthly current awareness service. Selected, recent dissertations and theses are listed according to topic and the month of their discovery in Dissertation Abstracts. Authorized Pitt users may follow links from citations to corresponding records in the Digital Dissertations database, where complete citations and abstracts may be viewed, and when available, the entire item may be downloaded for free. For those without subscription access to ProQuest database of Doctoral Dissertations, individual dissertations may be purchased directly from ProQuest, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103, 1-800-521-0600 x2513.
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This site contains an extensive list of links to sites dealing with a wide range of history of science topics. The sites are grouped by topic from general introductions to libraries and graduate student resources. Along with typical web resources, some of the listings here include sources that may be included less often on other link pages: for example, links to listserves and chat pages.
Isaac Newton wrote at least one hundred thirty one manuscripts, totaling approximately one million words, on the subject of alchemy, work that would today fall under the general rubric of "chemistry". With the support of the National Science Foundation, this scholarly online edition is one part of an integrated project that combines new research on Newton's chymistry with an online edition of his manuscripts. In the future, this edition will include all of Newton's chymical writings in word-searchable form with annotations indicating their sources and the degree of Newtonian input into them.
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton site is a project that will give researchers access to Newton's writing on Chemistry, a field for which the scientist is not well known. In the future, the project will be an important supplement to other sites such as the comprehensive Newton Project at London's Imperial College; however, the project is just getting off the ground and only one manuscript is available at this time.
Eighty percent of the scientists who have ever lived are alive today. More surprisingly, the same statement could have been made one, two, or even three centuries ago. Not only has science been expanding rapidly since the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, it has emerged as a dominant force in our culture. This suggests why many educators have realized that an understanding of the evolution of science and of its influence on our society is a vital part of education. Study of the history of science provides just such understanding.
This introduction of the History of Science by Michael J. Crowe offers undergraduates a description of the field and a rationale for why this subject is interesting and important. The story gains perspective by quotes papered throughout the essay from scholars who have previously commented on the history of science. The site also answers popular questions undergrads might ask and suggests questions for discussion and reflection.
This research project "Ampère and the history of electricity" is developed by the CRHST with the partnership of the Académie des sciences, la Société des amis d'Ampère, le Musée Ampère à Poleymieux et l'Ecole Centrale Lyon. It was financed by the Ministère de la Recherche (programm "Création de produits de médiation scientifique en libre accès sur l'internet"), EDF Fondation, CNRS et la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
This website houses digital images and transcriptions of various André-Marie Ampère manuscripts. The site is geared toward users fluent in French. The site offers an English language version, but even the English pages contain some French text, which makes the site difficult for non-speakers to navigate. The manuscripts are organized by type and topic, and they are searchable, although the search almost certainly recognizes only French keywords and phrases. The site also contains other contemporary primary sources on the field of electro-magnetism and a bibliography of Ampère's published works.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of our graduation from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, we of the Medical School Class of 1954 have undertaken a project wherein each Class member was asked to describe in a brief essay how the momentous changes in health care during the past fifty years personally affected his or her relationships with patients and patient care.
The Hourglass Project is an effort to record the experiences of the members of the 1954 medical school class from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Members of the class were asked to describe how the changes in the health care had affected their relationships with their patients. The collection includes 30 narratives, but the project is ongoing and more accounts may be added as they are returned and made available. Each record begins with a description of the professional history of the writer, followed by the acdtual account. The records are in PDF format and range in length from 1 to 3 pages.
The Newton Project Canada: mandates
* to support the Newton Project (based in the United Kingdom)
* to provide a centre of operations for Canadian-based transcription work on Newton’s unpublished manuscripts
* to seek funding for both the Newton Project and its Canadian arm
* to provide exclusive online resources on Newton’s theology and prophetic views
Historic Pittsburgh is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet. This website enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries and museums in providing online access to their respective materials.
Historic Pittsburgh offers a variety of materials to browse including images and a general timeline of the city's history. It also includes finding aids and powerful searches of 1850-1880 census records for Pittsburgh and Allegheny City and thousands of images. There are over 1,000 maps available in high-resolution images, and a full-text search of over 500 books.
The Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical (SciPer) index provides an scholarly synopsis of the material relating to science, technology, and medicine appearing in sixteen non-scientific periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. With entries describing around 7,500 articles (doubling to more than 15,000 when complete), and with references to over 5,500 individuals, 2,000 publications, and 1,000 institutions, it provides an invaluable research tool for those interested in the representation of science and in the interpenetration of science and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, as well as for students of the period more generally.
Produced by the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sheffield and the Division of History and Philiosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, the Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical project will provide indexing of material relating to science, technology, and medicine in sixteen British periodicals from 1800-1900. The detailed indexing includes authors, titles, bibliographic details, and identifies (and hyperlinks) the people, publications, and institutions discussed in the articles, sometimes with an extended description. This allows for a more focused search than using article-level indexing or full-text searching. The collecting will include more than 15,000 articles when complete.
