Physical Sciences

A historical narrative written in 1981 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. In addition to highlighting the life and work of Ernest O. Lawrence, and important discoveries made at the lab. The site also provides links to an online collection of related images.

This site is a large archive of alchemy texts and images. The site contains dozens of transcriptions of 16th, 17th, and 18th century texts, more than a thousand images, an extensive collection of scholarly articles, and more. The site is maintained by Adam McLean, an independent scholar and well known authority and enthusiast for all things alchemical. The site also offers a mailing list, a CD-ROM version of the site, and several study courses.

A catalog of Jesuits who worked in various scientific fields, with biographies of the members and highlights of their work. Includes a bibliography and an index of names.

The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service that collects and evaluates humanities websites in order to assist scholars in using these resources. Its History and Philosophy of Science category includes almost 1000 sites divided into six subgroups: projects/organizations, primary sources, secondary sources, research related, teaching and learning, and bibliographic sources. The sites can also be sorted by period and by target audience. Humbul is also searchable for more specific queries.

A History of Mass Spectrometry is intended to be a dynamic, interactive record of significant events in the evolution of this science. The site includes timelines, introductory essays, links to or brief biographies of significant mass spectrometry theorists like John Dalton and J.J. Thomson, and most significantly full texts and abstracts of key documents in this history of mass spectrometry. J.J. Thomson's essay "On the Masses of the Ions in Gases at Low Pressures," published in the December 1999 issue of Philosophical Magazine is included here for example, as is F.W. Austin's "Isotopes and Atomic Weights" (Nature, 1920).

This site offers a large body of work by Sir William Rowan Hamilton and Georg Friedrich Bernhard Rieman, a series of articles on "The controversy generated by the publcation of The Analyst", and large group of biographies of mathematicians from the seventeenth and eighteenth century. There is also a smaller amount of material relating to Sir Isaac Newton, Geogre Boole, and Georg Cantor.

This is a collection of 35 images (as of February 2001) from the history of astronomy. It includes images of instruments, astronomers and observatories as well as astronomical pictures. Most of the images are from the nineteenth century or early twentieth century, such as an early map of the surface of Mars produced from 1894-1901 and a photograph of the solar corona from 1905. Some of the images, most often obtained by scanning old astronomical journals, are of fairly poor quality; they are probably more useful for historians of astronomy than for a general audience looking for interesting pictures of the heavens.

This text only, one-page site lists about 20 women in the history of chemistry, as well as present female luminaries in the subject. Most of the entries have several links to other Web sites describing their biographies and work. At the top of the page are a few recommended books on the subject. There are no images or biographical material on this site, just links to other, more developed sites.