Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)

Eclipses of the Sun and Moon have always left a deep impression on their viewers. The loss of the Sun, the bringer of life for ancient people, was considered a bad omen. Many ancient people—including those in the Caribbean and the islands of the Pacific— believed that during an eclipse a monster or dragon was eating the Sun. The time of an eclipse was one of prayers, sacrifices, and noise as they attempted to make the dragon drop its prey—and the dragon always did!
 

German LIbrary of the Year 2002

A Scandalously Short Introduction to the History of Pharmacy

This is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 6100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members, not only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all true science, literature and art -- all come within the scope of the Catholic Encyclopedia.

We are on the verge today of a much greater appreciation for the scientific achievements of the world's most ancient civilizations and an understanding of the workings of the ancient mind. At a time when it is still fashionable for scientists to dismiss the possibility that the learned men of remote antiquity, long before the classical-period Greeks or the later Romans, could have known about phenomena like precession (the extremely slow wobble of the Earth's axis of rotation) without modern instruments, or about the spherical shape and dimensions of our planetary spacecraft or its orbit about the Sun as the center of a solar system, a few lone investigators have recently found traces of a very high degree of scientific sophistication and knowledge of the natural world preserved in a metaphorical code which we call myth.

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.

Started in 1946, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is internationally recognized as one of the top publications in its field. The journal's coverage is broad, publishing the latest original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. When possible and appropriate, it focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, received and interpreted their efforts.

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.

The Royal Danish Naval Museum regards the historic collection of ship models as its cornerstone. The collection consists of about 400 items, illustrating the technical development of shipbuilding through the last 300 years. The collection contains models of ships, ornamentation and mechanical devices dating as far back as 1669. It is among the finest in the world and is in some respects unique.