This page fills a gap that I noticed, in the lack of online science textbooks and historical works: the viewer is directed to the different sites using the approximate date that the book was written. The page consists of all the books, that I could find, using a fairly broad definition of science and technology.
Willkommen im Virtual Office for History, Theory, and Ethics in Medicine! Ich freue mich über IhrenBesuch und möchte Ihnen nun mein Informationsangebot vorstellen. Alle Seiten werden laufend aktualisiert, es lohnt sich also, öfter mal herein zu schauen. Folgende Seiten gibt es im Augenblick:
I plan to put a number of chemistry texts online. Generally they will contain some some historic interest or some unusual feature. For this book I have not observed any special features, but it is a well written short chemistry book for secondary school students, typical of its time. It has few diagrams and I thought it might be a good book with which to start. It is not dated, but I believe it to have been written in about 1890. It contains 127 pages of text and a further 16 pages of advertisements. I have no information about Robert Avey Ward and would be interested in any details readers may supply. I believe this to be the first 19 century chemistry textbook to be put online.
The Gregorian Calendar was proclaimed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
No century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000.
A leap second has been added to the national time scale at midnight 31 December 1995. The "Greenwich" time signal to mark the transition between 1995 and 1996 will contain six short pips instead of the usual five before the start of the long pip which marks the hour. The decision to change the time was made by Paris's International Earth Rotation Services. The end 1995 leap second will be the 29th since Coordinated Universal Time began in 1972.
I have a photocopy of the anaesthetic part of the Allen & Hanburys Ltd catalogue entitled "A Reference List of Surgical Instruments and Medical Appliances, Orthopaedic and Deformity Apparatus, Hospital Furniture and Equipment, Electro-Medical and Surgical Apparatus, etc.", dated 1930.
This edition differs from the published gloss. Lists of Chinese characters have been removed. The typeset pinyin toning has been replaced by a pre-press mark-up system that indicates the tones.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the U.S. Army had a medical corps consisting of all of 98 surgeons and assistant surgeons. No one called physicians doctors in those days, they were all called surgeons. The Corps had about 20 clinical thermometers, and didn't have a "modern" microscope until 1863. No one in the U.S. really had any idea what a laryngoscope, stethoscope, or opthamalscope was. No surgeon used hypodermic syringes to administer medicine.
Carrington was the chief inspector of the Richmond area hospitals for a period in the middle of the war, and most of the inspection reports cited below are several detailed pages on appearance, dimensions, and practices of the various hospitals around Richmond. There are a few reports for other hospitals not in Richmond, as well. This listing is in the rather skewed order of appearance on the roll of microfilm. [see the list in chronological order] Found and indexed by Robert E. L. Krick.
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
The class on "science wars" took the form of a radio debate, in which each person in the class argued the position of one of the thinkers who have published in this series of polemics. The debate was edited from 80 minutes to 40 minutes and broadcast on Dublin Weekend Radio on 102.2 fm at 11am on Saturday 18 April and 25 April 1998 (in 2 parts) on the New Frontiers programme. The 1999 science wars debate took place on 22 March 1999.
