1. History Of Science - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia As an academic field, history of science began with the publication of William Whewell s History of the Inductive Sciences (first published in 1837). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science

History of science From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Science is a body of empirical theoretical , and practical knowledge about the natural world , produced by a global community of researchers making use of scientific methods , which emphasize the observation, experimentation and explanation of real world phenomena . Given the dual status of science as objective knowledge and as a human construct, good historiography of science draws on the historical methods of both intellectual history and social history Tracing the exact origins of modern science is difficult. This is due in large part to the scant documentary and physical evidence of ancient investigations of nature. Even the word scientist is relatively recent first coined by William Whewell in the 19th century . Previously, people investigating nature called themselves natural philosophers While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since antiquity (for example, by Aristotle ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages (for example, by

2. Internet History Of Science Sourcebook Links to documents and Web resources pertaining to the history of science including original texts from great scientific thinkers. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html

Halsall Home Ancient History Sourcebook Medieval Sourcebook Modern History Sourcebook Other History Sourcebooks: African East Asian Indian Islamic ... Global Internet History of Science Sourcebook This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below. For more contextual information, for instance about the Islamic world, check out these web sites. Internet Ancient History Sourcebook Internet Medieval Sourcebook Internet Modern History Sourcebook For help in research, homework, and so forth see Ancient History HELP! Medieval Studies HELP! Modern History HELP! Notes: In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a number of other web resources. Link to a secondary article, review or discussion on a given topic. MEGA Link to one of the megasites which track web resources. WEB Link to a website focused on a specific issue.. These are not links to every site on a given topic, but to sites of serious educational value. hits since July 31, 1998

3. Harvard University - The Department Of The History Of Science Bachelors degree and graduate programs, course lists, online newsletter, guest lecture announcements. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/

Visiting Researchers Faculty Administrative Staff Teaching Fellows ... Contacts Introducing Waywiser the new online database for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments! Learn more Featured Faculty Anne Harrington Chair, Professor of the History of Science Ph.D. 1985, Oxford University Learn more about Anne Meet the rest of our faculty Next History of Science Colloquium "Insides Out: Organ Transplantation and the Renegociation of Personal Identity in 20th Century America " presented by Susan E. Lederer Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine In the Putnam Gallery: The department of History of Science invites visitors to enjoy the exhibit, which features a fascinating cross section of scientific instruments highlighting the diverse nature of science, its practice, and its place within society and culture from the American Colonial period to the present. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Faculty Publications Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now by Charles E. Rosenberg, is the latest publication by History of Science faculty. Here is a complete list.

4. History Of Science history of science is devoted to the history of science, medicine and technology from earliest times to the present day. Articles discussing methodology http://www.shpltd.co.uk/hs.html

HOME HISTORY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY ARCHAEOASTRONOMY ... E-MAIL History of Science Contents Volume 45 2007 Contents Volume 44 2006 Contents Volume 43 2005 Contents Volume 42 2004 ... Sample Issue Download EDITOR Prof. Rob Iliffe Department of History School of Humanities Arts Building A University of Sussex Falmer Sussex UK e-mail: r.iliffe@sussex.ac.uk ADVISORY EDITORS Pascal Brioist, Janet Browne, Hal Cook, Serafina Cuomo, Igor Dmitriev, Jan Golinski, Anna Guagnini, Trevor Levere, David Miller, William Newman, J. D. North, Lewis Pyenson, Larry Stewart, Andrew Warwick INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS History of Science is devoted to the history of science, medicine and technology from earliest times to the present day. Articles discussing methodology, and reviews of the current state of knowledge and possibilities for future research, are especially welcome. Papers offered for publication should in the first instance be submitted in Word for Windows format, as an e-mail attachment to the Editor. If and when the paper is accepted, a printed copy will be required in addition to the final text in electronic form. Original artwork should not be sent until the paper is accepted. To view the style sheet CLICK HERE Books for review should be sent to the publishers: Science History Publications Ltd, 16 Rutherford Road, Cambridge, CB2 8HH, UK.

5. Redirect WWW Virtual Library for the history of science, technology and medicine. Source for collectors research information. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm

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6. History Of Science Society Dedicated to fostering interest and scholarly research in the history of science and its social and cultural relations. Site informs about the profession, http://www.hssonline.org/

History of Science Society In the 1860s the invention of the spectroscope allowed scientists to study the chemical composition of the sun. Late in the nineteenth century, spectroscopes were turned to the study of water in the atmosphere and the possibilities of forecasting rain. This represents, writes Ben Smith, "the earliest attempt to apply spectroscopy to atmospheric remote sensing and meteorology." Read on... Nominate!! For information about prizes and online nomination form CFP: Sixth Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS The sixth joint meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society will take place in Oxford, U.K., on 4-6 July 2008. For more information ... Latest News January Newsletter Jobs Isis Books Received (6 December 2007 to 17 January 2008) ... 2008 HSS/NASA Fellowship Application Primary Navigation About the Society Publications History of Science Guide Teaching and Research ... Contact Us Search History of Science Society PO Box 117360 3310 Turlington Hall University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7360

7. Institute And Museum Of The History Of Science - Florence, Italy Website of the IMSS in Florence, Italy, housing many significant historical scientific instruments, texts and manuscripts, in particular those of Galileo http://www.imss.fi.it/

SEARCH: INFO INSTITUTE MUSEUM ITALIANO ENGLISH NEWS Announcement: Partial closure of the Museum due to restoration and renovation work from January 2008 Exhibition: Pompeian horti in the Boboli Gardens until April 27, 2008 Announcement: The Sundial of the Museum of the History of Science inaugurated Online: Nuncius Newsletter Oct-Nov edition Group and guided visits: Workshops and Experiences 2007-2008 Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 News Archive IMSS The Premises Laboratories ... Educational Workshops EXPLORE... The Astrolabe (in Italian) Galileo's Compass Galileo's Telescope (in Italian) Galileo's Microscope Digital Collections Online consultation of IMSS Digital Library collections. Galileo//thek@ Integrated digital archives of materials on Galileo Galilei. A virtual itinerary through the rooms of the museum Adv. Search Site Map Contacts ... Credits Piazza dei Giudici 1 Florence, ITALY VAT 01346820481

8. Museum Of The History Of Science, University Of Oxford website of the museum of the history of science, oxford. http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

Museum of the History of Science University of Oxford about current events family-friendly events online exhibits ... e-newsletters NEW become a member NEW feedback contacts location Supported by: Mobiles/PDAs visit: www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/wap (WAP-enabled devices only) Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ, UK The contents of this site may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the Museum. xhtml THE OXFORD TIMES See exhibition and project website Family Friendly: Images from the 'Making Micrographia' workshops, the Museums' contribution to this year's national Big Draw festival. You can also submit new work and see the online Micrographia Gallery NEWS Gallery Tour The pendulum clock , Saturday 26 January, 2 pm. Table Talk The Recycled Astrolabe , Sunday 27 January, 2.30 pm. Small Worlds : A database of 1955 micrograph images has been added to the 'Small Worlds' website. Quarterly programme of Museum events

9. Internet Resources For History Of Science And Technology Title pages of 8300 books in the University of Oklahoma’s history of science Collections. The site offers author/title access to all the items in the http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hsci/internet.htm

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Resources: Databases E-Journals E-Books Research Guides ... Suggest Purchase Internet Resources for Related Subjects: Choose Subject Biology Chemistry Chemical Eng Civil Engineering Computers Elec/Comp Eng Geography Geology History Materials Mathematics Mechanical Eng Patents Physics Contact: David L. Langenberg Associate Librarian E-mail Home DELCAT Databases ... Ask a Librarian Internet Resources for History of Science and Technology Starting Points Topics in the History of Science and Technology (General, Astronomy, Biology, Biotechnology, Cartography, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Bibliographies and Research Guides Databases and Information Sources Blogs Museums ... Regional Resources Starting Points Consists of four areas. The Research Center catalogs, annotates, and reviews online historical information and is browsable by topic, time period, publisher, or content. Internet resources and featured archival projects appear in the Collecting Center; free tools can be downloaded in the Tools Center; and practical guides, free workshops, and consultation services are listed in the Resource Center. Eric Weisstein's World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource Biographies and explanations of topics in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and chemistry.

10. The British Society For The History Of Science Describes the society and its activities. Includes contact information, link to journal and guide to courses in the UK. http://www.bshs.org.uk/

This site should display legibly in any browser, but is designed to use cascading stylesheets and is best viewed with a standards-compliant browser. The BSHS About the Society Conferences Grants ... Contacts The British Society for the History of Science Welcome to the website of the BSHS: the main organisation in the British Isles working to bring together people with an interest in the histories of science, technology and medicine and their changing relationship with society. Learn more about the BSHS here The call for papers for Connecting Disciplines , the 2008 Three Societies Conference, is now closed. The Programmes Committee is currently reviewing the applications and we hope to inform session coordinators and those who submitted individual abstracts of the outcome in mid-January. Please consult the 2008 Three Societies Conference page for further information. Latest announcement (3 January 2008) Philip Ball Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005) wins 2007 Dingle Prize. The Outreach and Education Committee is delighted to announce that the winner of this year's Dingle Prize is Philip Ball Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005). This biennial prize, with monetary value of £300, is awarded for the best recent book that communicates the history of science, technology and or medicine to a wide audience of non-specialists. [

11. History Of Science: General Australian Science Archives Project (ASAPWeb) Scientists on Disk history of science Gopher at Johns Hopkins University (4 Jun 1996 disappeared) http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_sci/hs_general.html

History of Astronomy History of Science: General General history of science servers and information Australian Science Archives Project (ASAPWeb) Scientists on Disk: History of Science Gopher at Johns Hopkins University (4 Jun 1996: disappeared) Science Studies (University of Missouri at Kansas City) Including history of science SHiPS Science Teachers Network linking science teachers applying Sociology, History and Philosophy of Science Events In Science, Mathematics, and Technology - Version 3.0 , by William Nielsen Brandt A general science history timeline Niel Brandt's Timelines and Scales of Measurement Page Including Science / Technology History Timeline as TEX, DVI and ASCII files Events In Science and Mathematics Introductions for historians of science Allgemeine Informationen zum Fach Wissenschaftsgeschichte (in German) Beginner's Guide to Research in the History of Science , by Ronald C. Tobey Dissertation research and writing Getting started: Planning a Research Trip Working in the Archives Writing the Dissertation Historians of science E-Mail Directory of Historians E-Mail Directory of Historians of Science Seems to be not quiet up-to-date Swedish Historians of Science and Ideas: E-mail directory Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Members' E-Mail Directory Awards History of Science Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences History of Science Society Awards Jobs and grants

12. History Of Science @ University Of Wisconsin | Home Undergraduate courses and graduate programs, including joint PhD with other departments. http://histsci.wisc.edu/

The Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison houses one of the largest, broadest, and most prestigious academic programs in the United States for the history of science, medicine and technology. Founded in 1941, it was the first history of science program to exist as an independent academic department. overview news grad program current courses contact events undergrad major

13. OU History Of Science Undergraduate minor, graduate program, research, collections and web projects. http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/

C lio, the muse of history. Detail from Jan Vermeer, The Art of Paintin g. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. more. spring 08 course list undergraduate minor this week's colloquium ... university of oklahoma is one of a small number of universities with a department devoted to studying the history of science and its cultural influences. We offer a diverse array of courses , and invite students from any major to join us as we explore the development of scientific ideas within their social contexts, from antiquity to the modern era. We also invite you to learn more about our minor in the history of science Our graduate program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of scientific inquiry as they also acquire the skills and background necessary for conducting specialized research. The history of science collections , with over 91,000 volumes, is a world-class resource on which every student can draw. The research expertise of the faculty is wide-ranging, and marked by a commitment to interdisciplinarity. Areas of particular strength in our program include:

14. Whipple Museum Of The History Of Science - Collections, exhibitions, publications. University of Cambridge, UK. http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/

Skip to main content Access Keys Site Map / Text size: Whipple Museum of the History of Science Main menu Home What's New Visitor Information Events Group Bookings ... Contact You are seeing an unstyled version of this site. If this is because you are using an older web browser, we recommend that you upgrade to a modern, standards-compliant browser such as FireFox [http://www.getfirefox.com/] , which is available free of charge for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Whipple Museum holds an internationally important collection of scientific instruments and models, dating from the Middle Ages to the present. Details of our opening hours over the Christmas period Back to top ^^ Privacy Web Standards ... University of Cambridge [/whipple/explore/] [/whipple/gallerychallenge/] http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/

15. History Of Science history of science. Margaret Alic, Hypatia s Heritage A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/subjects/history-of-science.html

The Bactra Review Subject Index History of Science Margaret Alic, Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century George Batchelor, The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging William R. Everdell, The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origin of Twentieth-Century Thought Anne Harrington, Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth Century Thought [Review forthcoming] J. L. Heilbron, Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, and Technique Shigehisa Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine [Review forthcoming] Otto Mayr, Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe Advice for a Young Investigator Robert Serber, The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century [Review forthcoming] Cf. Ancient History Modern History Philosophy of Science Popular Science

16. HISTORY OF SCIENCE/SCIENCE STUDIES REFERENCE SOURCES gort.ucsd.edu/ds/initial.html Similar pages BUBL LINK history of scienceSubjects chemistry news, history of science, interdisciplinary studies, peace and conflict, physics news, scientific research worldwide, scientists http://gort.ucsd.edu/ds/initial.html

The author of this guide is Doug Stewart. Note: UCSD users of this guide can check ROGER for local holdings. This site has moved. You will be redirected in 3 seconds. If not, please go to http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/hist-of-science/ New additions / updated January 13, 2002. PART ONE BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS SPECIALIZED INDEXES FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS,AND CHRONOLOGIES BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES ... LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS PART TWO BIBLIOGRAPHIES Brush, Stephen G. The history of modern science: a guide to the second scientific revolution, 1800-1950 Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Companion to the history of modern science . Edited by R.C. Olby. London: Routledge, 1990. Corsi, Pietro. Information sources in the history of science and medicine . Boston: Butterworth Scientific, 1983. Durbin, Paul. A guide to the culture of science, technology, and medicine . New York: Free Press, 1980. Hessenbruch, Arne, editor. Reader's guide to the history of science. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

17. Max Planck Institute For The History Of Science Located in Berlin, Germany. Publications and preprints, online primary sources, information about the institute, and links. http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

Institute Staff Research Sources ... Miscellanea News Margarete V¶hringer, predoctoral fellow at the MPIWG between 2001 and 2004, was awarded the Wilhelm-Ostwald- Anerkennungspreis 2007. Further information Janina Wellmann, fellow at the MPIWG between 1999 and 2007, was awarded the of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. IMCA Bronze Award for the Exhibition "Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe" 2007 Schachterle Prize for Henning Schmidgen More Information Georg Uschmann Prize for Matthias Schemmel. More Information Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) The MPIWG in Berlin is one of 80 research institutes in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities administered by the Max Planck Society. The specific research projects pursued at the MPIWG span several millennia, cultures north-south-east-west, and numerous scientific disciplines, ranging from Babylonian mathematics to contemporary genetics, from Renaissance natural history to the early days of quantum mechanics. Researchers at the MPIWG come from every continent, and a wide spectrum of scientific and scholarly backgrounds. The MPIWG is involved in collaborations with scientists, historians of art and architecture, jurists, archaeologists, and museum curators. The Institute also promotes the application of new computer technologies to research in the humanities.

18. Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. to develop superb private libraries and major institutional holdings of rare books and manuscripts on the history of science, medicine and technology. http://www.historyofscience.com/

19. Home | Echo ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a directory to 5000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. http://echo.gmu.edu/

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20. History Of Science centre for the history of science technology and medicine. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience

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