The collection began during the 18th century with models of several ships of the Royal Fleet. Now, more than a century later, the Museum has over 17,000 items, in addition to the photographic archive-containing about 30,000 photographs-and the drawing and ships’ plans archives approximately 1,500. In Portuguese and English.
The first edition of the Aberdeen Bestiary (1996) was developed as a pilot scheme for producing digitised images of manuscripts on the Web with funding from Joint Funding Councils Libraries Review Group: Specialised Research Collections in the Humanities initiative. It was a collaborative project between the University Library, the Department of History of Art and the Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES) at the University of Aberdeen.
The Aberdeen Bestiary, an exemplar of this genre of medieval zoology, has been scanned into this useful website. In addition to the scan of over 100 images and the accompanying text, the editors of this web site provide English translations of the Latin text and editorial comments to explain the mythology behind the various descriptions. Additionally, the site includes pages explaining the construction of the codex and the development of the site. The introductory pages should prove helpful to any scholar beginning their research into pre-modern zoology and useful as well to scholars researching the history of the book.
This page introduces the fossil evidence for human evolution in China. At present it includes a catalog of Chinese human fossil remains consisting of: a picture gallery of important fossil specimens, maps detailing the distribution of human fossils, and a time line; links to other relevant sites dealing with paleontology, human evolution and Chinese prehistory; and other resources which may be useful for gaining a better understanding of China's role in the emergence of humankind. More features will be added in the near future
This index page links to material relative to the origin and history of male circumcision. Material is indexed in chronological order of publication.
Specializing in the sale of 15th to 19th century maps and atlases
Introduction
Heritage Map Museum has developed an extensive list of more than 500 high-quality Internet sites of interest to historians and cartophiles, the results of more than 400 hours of research by the staff of Heritage Map Museum. We believe it to be the finest collection on the Internet.
The links are organized by geographic region, theme, and historical timeline. We hope you find this information helpful, informative, and useful.
A collection of pictures, documents and instruments retracing the work of the pioneering French Astrophysicist Daniel Chalonge (1895-1977) at the Institut d 'Astrophysique de Paris - of which he was one of the founders - at the Observatoire de Paris, the Observatoire de Haute Provence and at the Jungfraujoch Scientific Station (Switzerland) where particle physics experiments, such as the Manchester-CERN collaboration, were performed.
Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to over 1,522,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
ECO is produced by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM), a nonprofit organization for preserving and providing access to early Canadian publications, first on microfiche and now online.
ECO began in 1997 as a pilot project to create an online digital library. Over three years, 550,000 pages of text were taken from the CIHM's microfiche collection and scanned into digital images. This part of the collection remains free and accessible to the general public.
The second phase of ECO began in 2000 and is scheduled to continue to 2004. During this time, 1,250,000 pages of colonial, federal, and provincial government publications will be scanned and published. This portion of the collection is available to all registered ECO members.
Along the way, a few special projects have also been added to the collection. These include 20,000 pages of text detailing the history of Hudson's Bay Company, and 22,500 pages of Jesuit Relations texts, translated into English by Reuben Thwaites. These collections are also accessible to the general public.
Catholic issues addresses topics which frequently trouble Catholics and non-Catholics alike. There will be a growing series of position papers dealing with widely misunderstood issues like the Galileo Affair, Pope Pius XII and the Jewish Holocaust, and the Church's postion on the scientific theory of evolution.
The purpose is to clarify and to state the case as concisely as possible. Catholic issues will also address issues of Catholic apologetics such as how to deal with the Protestant belief in sola scripture ("scripture only"). And it will feature topics that are crucial to the re-evangalization of all Christians, including many Catholics, such as Natural Family Planning.
Dharmapala Centre started 1992 the first creating of Medical Thangkas based on the original paintings from the 17th century of the Blue Beryll. Our artists have finished the first complete set of 77 pieces in the year 1997.
You can order every plate from the set. Please consider that it will take approximately one year to finish one Medical Thangka .The price starts from USD 500 and ranges up to USD 1,500, for an A3 paper size Thangka. The price quoted for any Thangka is governed by its size, quality of paint employed and intricate details. This sacred art must appear as lively as to generate much faith on the beholder.
The Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun was established in 1945. It is the largest university in northern Poland and is outstanding in terms of academic potential, courses of study on offer, forms of education, and number of students. The University employs a total staff of over 3,000, of whom 1,368 are academic teachers.
The NCU is composed of eleven faculties: the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, the Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of History, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Languages, the Faculty of Law and Administration, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, and the Faculty of Theology. There are 33 areas of study and over 80 specialisations. Students have the choice of, for example, the only Polish university course in Art History and Conservation, or attractive interdisciplinary options in the humanities. There are several specialisations available which are rarely represented at other Polish universities, such as Medical Physics, and Chemistry with Elements of Marketing and Management. Over 56 postgraduate and 12 doctoral programmes are also available. The total enrolment at the University is 34,000, of whom 508 are graduate students working towards Doctor degrees.
