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History of Science: Primary Sources
General Primary Sources
- Perseus Digital LibraryOur flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
- Digital BodleianDigitized portions of the Bodleian Library at Oxford's extensive collections including manuscripts and 25,000 meters of archival content.
- Hathi TrustHathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- Internet History of Science SourcebookThe Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaDiscover 36,687,547 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
- Wellcome ImagesFind thousands of freely licensed digital books, artworks, photos and images of historical library materials and museum objects.
- Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
- Seeing is BelievingNew York Public Library's exhibition of 700 years of scientific and medical illustrations.
- Brought to LifeImages of 4,000 medical objects selected from the Science Museum's collections.
History of Medicine
- Pediatric History CenterThe Lawrence Gartner, M.D., FAAP and Carol Gartner, Ph.D. Pediatric History Center is dedicated to preserving and cataloguing materials representing the history of pediatrics and children's health care. It also serves as the repository of the Archives of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Historical Images in MedicineMedical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
- U.S. National Library of MedicineThe NLM History of Medicine Division (HMD) collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world’s richest collections of historical material related to health and disease.
- Medical Heritage LibraryThe Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine.
- Medieval Medical IllustrationsUniversity of North Carolina Libraries digital collection of medieval medical illustrations from the Mackinney collection.
- The New York Academy of MedicineThe Academy is home to one of the most significant historical libraries in medicine and public health in the world, safeguarding the heritage of medicine to inform the future of health.
- Anatomia Collection: anatomical plates 1522-1867This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
History of Science
- Scientific Instruments CollectionThe University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection is an effort to gather, safeguard, research, catalogue, and interpret, the material heritage of research at the University of Toronto.
- American Institute of PhysicsThe Niels Bohr Library & Archives is a repository and clearinghouse for information in the history of physics, astronomy, geophysics and allied fields.
- Science.govScience.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
- Science Museum Group CollectionsExplore over 250,000 objects and archives from the Science Museum, Science and Industry Museum, National Science and Media Museum, National Railway Museum and Locomotion.
- Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance EuropeEpact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
History of Technology
- Computer History MuseumCHM stewards the world’s leading collection and archive chronicling the history and impact of computing and technological innovation on the human experience.
- Charles Babbage InstituteThe archival collection consists of corporate records, manuscript materials, records of professional associations, oral history interviews, trade publications, periodicals, obsolete manuals and product literature, photographs, films, videos, and reference materials. CBI also serves as a clearinghouse for resources on the history of information technology.
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