The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project begun by the students in the course Ancient Inventions, which was offered for the first time in the spring semester of 1997. More inventions will be acquired by the museum each year that the course is offered.
The Society is affiliated to AVISTA in the United States and to the Association de Villard de Honnecourt in France, and is associated with the International Medieval Congress held annually at Leeds, where it hopes to develop an increased presence through regularly organised sessions on medieval technology and science.
Definition:
The official disease, leprosy, produced by Mycobacterium leprae, was not scientifically identified until 1874, and the cause for the disease was not proven until the 1960s. It is difficult to diagnose even today; therefore, there must have been much confusion surrounding the disease in the Middle Ages. Those classified with leprosy, especially during the Middle Ages, did not necessarily exhibit any of the common symptoms. The classification "leper" was given to many social deviants. Consequently, for purposes of studying lepers in the Middle Ages, we will define lepers as R.I. Moore does in Formation of a Persecuting Society, as "those who were called lepers and treated as such.".
This site describes leprosy, a disease that was common in Europe until the seventeenth-century. Included here a links to primary documents about leprosy, largely drawn from the medieval period, an annotated bibliography. Links to images are also available. The accompanying essay provides a definition of leprosy and descriptions of issues such as the treatment of lepers, inequalities of wealth, and the role in leprosy in religious practice. The site is part of a group of essays titled "Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe."
Resources for the History of Science on the Internet
Since I was a child I have had a strong interest in how we humans understand and measure our world. Consequently I have played with and collected measuring instruments for almost as long as I can remember. This interest in turn lead me to pursue the types of measurements made by earlier cultures, in particular Medieval Europe, and how they made them. Such instruments are rare, and most of us have little opportunity to see, let alone handle or own such artifacts. Thus for about fifteen years I have been occasionally building my own working replicas of ancient scientific and philosophical instruments. For equally long I have been giving occasional lectures on the origins and use of these devices. Recently I have also given workshops on making one's own simple replicas. This site has been created to share my interests and to support these lectures and workshops.
The Swedish Museum of Natural History offers knowledge about nature and man's surroundings. We wish to make it as exciting as possible. We want to add to your knowledge by providing experiences.
We are now entering the realm of Queen Margrethe the First. In the village the smith, the shoemaker, and the sewers operate, and on the hill at the harbour the Dyer lives.
On market days the villagers are teeming around the stalls with local and foreign goods, and now and then artists, musicians harlots and riff raff arrive at the village to stay a while. Henrik Svane, the noble Knight, is training with the horses and weapons in magnificiant knight tournaments
Welcome to the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. This department houses some of the most extensive and historically important metazoan and protozoan collections available to researchers today. Among the one million specimens in the collections are almost 10,000 type depositions. The taxonomic and geographic strengths of the invertebrate collections reflect the research interests of curators and their areas of geographic interest throughout the history of the museum.
The ChiMed web site is managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China. We hope it will serve as an electronic clearinghouse where people with similar interests can meet to exchange information and ideas.
This site provides numerous links to sites providing information about the history of Chinese Medicine. Researchers will find links to detailed history of Chinese Medicine web pages, course syllabi, bibliographies, key archives, university programs, scholars working in this field, news and information (such as calls for papers and conference announcements) and listserves. Scholars of the history of Asian medicine will find this a particularly useful resource.
Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.
