ABC-Clio
Historical Abstracts and American History and Life
Bibliography on the History of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1912+
Cumulative Bibliography on the History of Oceanography
From History of Oceanography Newsletter
Historical Photos
Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Melbourne, Australia
Maritime History Virtual Archives
Rudolf Leuckart Teaching Charts
1822-1898
Voyage of L'Astrolabe
El origen de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (SMHCT) se encuentra asociado al Primer Coloquio Mexicano de Historia de la Ciencia (1963), organizado por el doctor Enrique Beltrán. Después de esta reunión, un grupo de historiadores de la ciencia encabezados por el doctor Beltrán y el doctor José Joaquín Izquierdo fundaron la SMHCT en 1964. De sus labores destaca la publicación de cinco volúmenes de la revista Anales de la SMHCT entre 1965 y 1979, y dos de la Memoria del Primer Coloquio.
It's practically the refrain of modern life: "Everything's relative." The claim that nothing can be known for sure or in common--that truth is a construct or a fiction--is an idea that contributes to many of our contemporary discontents, from debates sparked by multiculturalism to disagreements over the state of the environment. It's also the idea behind the postmodern doctrines that now hold sway in many parts of the intellectual and academic worlds. Might it also be wrong? This special WQ debate takes that question as its starting point.
I am proud to present the entire text of this remarkable book. I hope it will be widely read, and I hope thereby Mivart will attain his proper place in history next to Charles Darwin. The conversion to text from the scans was completed in April of 2004. I would be grateful if you would inform me of any errors.
This site has a digitized full text copy of St. George Mivart's key work "The Genesis of Species." In the years after Darwin's publication of "The Origin of Species" and the "Descent of Man," scientists, philosophers and theologians argued over the meaning and consequences of natural selection. St. George Mivart attempted to walk the middle line between pure Darwinists and creationists, describing a middle concept, "special creation." Mivart was ostracized by the Darwinian party, and excommunicated by the Catholic Church. Ironically, the core of Mivart's theory is now the Catholic position on natural selection and evolution. This book is the earliest complete statement of Mivart's theory. Unfortunately, the text is in static PDF format and not searchable.
he Christian church has had a continuing concern for the for the relation between God, man, and nature. Western science emerged in cultures dominated by Christianity. The question arises how Christianity influenced attitudes toward nature and the practice of what was later to be called science. It is also important to discover the ways that an increasing knowledge of nature has influenced Christian thought.
Our keynote paper by English, Chemist-Historian Colin Russell aptly focuses on the value of history in understanding toady's science/faith concerns. American historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers offer a seminal statement on the 'conflict thesis' in Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science.
When future historians turn to examine the major intellectual accomplishments of the twentieth century, they will undoubtedly give a special place to the extraordinary achievements in biology, achievements that have revolutionized our understanding of life's processes and of disease. Important intimations of what was to happen in biology were already apparent in the second half of the nineteenth century. Darwin had delineated the evolution of animal species, Mendel had discovered some basic rules about inheritance, and Weissman, Roux, Driesch, de Vries, and other embryologists were beginning to decipher how an organism develops from a single cell. What was lacking at the end of the nineteenth century, however, was an overarching sense of how these bold advances were related to one another.
STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He received an A.B. from Antioch College and a PhD. in paleontology from Columbia University. Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the author of 13 books.
Some creators announce their inventions with grand éclat. God proclaimed, "Fiat lux," and then flooded his new universe with brightness. Others bring forth great discoveries in a modest guise, as did Charles Darwin in defining his new mechanism of evolutionary causality in 1859: "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection."
Charles Darwin did not come up with the idea of evolution, he was merely the first to come up with an explanation for how evolution worked that explained what he and other biologists saw in the world. Darwin came up with the idea of Natural Selection. This is the idea that the environment an organism lives in helps to determine which organisms survive and produce young, and which do not.
This site provides information and excerpts about the history of cognition, beginning with Charles Darwin, extending to his protégé, George Romanes, as well as Pavlov, Lorenz and Skinner. This site is most interested in what modern philosophers term the 'continuity of consciousness' across species and there is a bias in favor of this subdiscipline. Links from this page to intelligence, perception, stimulus control and language and tool use make this a useful site for those interested in evolutionary biology and natural history.
The Agnostic Christmas by Robert Ingersoll (1892)
Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
The Bigotry Of Colleges by Robert Ingersoll
The Brooklyn Divines by Robert Ingersoll (1883)
Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
Crumbling Creeds by Robert Ingersoll
The Development of Religion by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
The Foundations Of Faith by Robert Ingersoll
Effect Of The World's Fair On The Human Race by Robert Ingersoll
Note About Einstein's use of the word "God"; Albert Einstein (Off Site)
On Prayer, Purpose, and the Soul by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
This Full Text Digital Library includes a number of works that either challenged religion or discussed its relationship to science. Works discussed include: Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man;" Albert Einstein's "Science and Religion" and Andrew White's "The Warfare Between Science and Religion." A link to the full library provides links to articles by Richard Dawkins among other secularists.
The Linnaeus´ Garden is a reconstruction of Uppsala University Botanical Garden the way it looked during Linnaeus´ days.
The Uppsala University Botanical Garden, planted in 1653, is the oldest botanical garden in Sweden. In 1741, Carl Linnaeus was appointed professor of medicine at the University, and became responsible for what had become a run down garden. Linneaus' studies in the garden helped him to develop a system of nature for which he became famous. It was through the influence of Linnaeus that the garden developed into one of the foremost of its time. This website includes a brief history of the garden, information about seeing the garden and events at the garden, and a map accompanied by brief descriptions of various locations.
