The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University. Here.
Archive of posts tagged History of science
Exhibition: The Magic and Myth of Alchemy
The Lloyd Library and Museum proudly announces a new online exhibit: The Magic and Myth of Alchemy (http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/alchemy/index.html), created in honor of the International Year of Chemistry, an event celebrated by chemists and chemistry associations throughout 2011. While the Lloyd does not hold the most ancient treatises from Asia or the Middle East, the Lloyd holds a wealth of materials from [...]
Workshop: Visual Representations in Science
The 6th European Spring School (Menorca, May 19 -21, 2011), devoted to “Visual Representations in Science” includes:
Review of Lars Becker-Larsen’s The Moving Earth
by Amy Ione Lars Becker-Larsen’s production of The Moving Earth offers a splendid chronicle of the scientific shift brought about through studies of planetary motion during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The name of the film refers to the work establishing that Earth is a moving planet and the broadly based content tells [...]
New Leonardo Reviews: Posted | June 2010
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
Ann: Turning the Pages: Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The National Library of Medicine is proud to announce its next online Turning the Pages project featuring the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surviving surgical text: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html . The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative [...]
Ann: Catalogue of Scientia Canadensis
The complete catalogue of Scientia Canadensis, the Canadian Journal of theHistory of Science, Technology and Medicine is now available on line athttp://www.erudit.org/revue/scientia/index.html initially published asnewsletter between 1976 and 1980, Scientia Canadensis became a peer-reviewedjournal in 1981.
