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Approximately 49,000 volumes on the history of medicine, science and other health-related disciplines. Materials dating from 1700 B.C. to A.D. 1800 number approximately 32,000 volumes.
Approximately 49,000 volumes on the history of medicine, science and other health-related disciplines. Materials dating from 1700 B.C. to A.D. 1800 number approximately 32,000 volumes.
Social History of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
The Museum's collections include millions of specimens, and their size and quality place the Museum among the best in the world. The collections provide the basis for the research carried out in the scientific departments, and, through loans and visits by guest researchers, are constantly used by scientists and institutions throughout the world. It is a crucial role of the Museum to keep these collections available for international research, and to preserve them for future generations. Parts of the collections, presented on the Museum's web pages, are also registered in searchable databases.
Written in English and Swedish, this site provides a detailed description of the many collections housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Collections include a historical collection first catalogued by Carl Linnaeus, collections resulting from Swedish expeditions to the Gambia. Essays describe the history of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, a history of the Ornithological Collection, and the History of Molluscan research.
This exhibit examines the evolution of teratology (i.e. the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined) through the eyes of physicians and philosophers. How have they considered and how have they intertwined different interpretations in their representations and explanations of wonders from Antiquity to the end of the 18th century?
Created entirely through the generosity of donors, this valuable collection of antique medical instruments contains a rich assortment of tools, apparatus, medications and containers used in the practice of medicine during the 19th and 20th century.
This chronology of Information Science and Technology has been prepared by Robert V. Williams, Univ. of South Carolina, College of Library and Information Science. The chronology should be considered a DRAFT version and all comments regarding corrections, changes, additions, etc. are welcome. Please e-mail me at: bobwill@sc.edu regarding changes.
The history of women, science, and technology: a bibliograpahic guide to the professions and the disciplines.
We have prepared an online version of an exhibition catalog that was originally published in 1989. The catalog was written by William B. Ashworth, Jr and it won the First Place Award in the annual competition sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Copies of the printed catalog are still available
This site shows how the face of the moon has been imagined and described as telescopes were improved, new inventions such as photography were applied, and as space travel led humankind to the surface of the moon. The site includes 45 sketches and photographs of the moon taken between 1610 and 1978. Each image has accompanying text describing the image and the context in which it was made. Historians of astronomy will find this site valuable.
The popes had always had a library, but in the middle of the fifteenth century they began to collect books in a new way. Nicholas V decided to create a public library for "the court of Rome"--the whole world of clerics and laymen, cardinals and scholars who inhabited the papal palace and its environs. He and Sixtus IV provided the library with a suite of rooms. These were splendidly frescoed, lighted by large windows, and furnished with elaborate wooden benches to which most books were chained. And, unlike some modern patrons, the popes of the Renaissance cared about the books as well as about the buildings that housed them. They bought, borrowed, and even stole the beautiful handwritten books of the time. The papal library soon became as spectacular a work of art, in its own way, as the Sistine Chapel or Saint Peter's. It grew rapidly; by 1455 it had 1200 books, 400 of them Greek; by 1481, a handwritten catalogue by the librarian, Platina, showed 3500 entries--by far the largest collection of books in the Western world.
This Library of Congress on-line exhibit presents the story of the Vatican Library as the driving intellectual force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance. WebPages devoted to mathematics, medicine & botany, and nature will be of most interest to historians of science. Each page includes a description of the Vatican Library's impact on the field as well as a few images of texts. The graphics are sparse, in part, because the on-line exhibit was created in 1993. It is however, still a useful resource for the history of renaissance science.
~440 BC: Democritus proposed the concept of atom to describe the ultimate indivisible, indestructible particles that composed the substance of all things. Lucretius (95-55 BC) wrote De rerum natura inspired in the ideas of Democritus and Epicurus.