There are a number of useful, interesting, and fun digital projects happening in the history of science. We are building a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, list of the projects we have found useful. Know of something we don’t? Let us know by sending us a message with the project link and brief description.
A set of computer animations for those who teach the ancient models of planetary motion, those who want to learn those models, or even those who enjoy simply contemplating just how clever the ancient astronomers were.
Archives and Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.
Darwin Correspondence Project
This website provides access to the complete set of known letters written by and to Charles Darwin. It publishes the transcripts alongside contextual notes and articles. The site contains reference to more than 2000 people who are either direct correspondents or individuals mentioned in the letters.
Darwin Online
Darwin Online is an online edition of the complete writings of Charles Darwin, containing over 212,000 pages of text and 220,000 images from his published writings and about 20,000 items from Darwin’s private papers and manuscripts (about 100,000 images). There is at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications in their many editions, and that includes the many foreign-language editions that have been published. All are reproduced at very high quality standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. Most of the sources have been edited and annotated.
IsisCB Explore
IsisCB Explore is a research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB contains over 40 years of curated bibliographical data.
Lady Science
Lady Science is a magazine of the history and popular culture of science. We publish a variety of voices and work on women and gender across the sciences.
NUKEMAP
We live in a world where nuclear weapons issues are on the front pages of our newspapers on a regular basis, yet most people still have a very bad sense of what an exploding nuclear weapon can actually do. Some people think they destroy everything in the world all that once, some people think they are not very different from conventional bombs. The reality is somewhere in between: nuclear weapons can cause immense destruction and huge losses of life, but the effects are still comprehensible on a human scale.
Oregon State University Special Collections
Special Collections and Archives Research
Time to Eat Dogs
Time to Eat the Dogs is a blog about science, history, and exploration. A central goal of this blog is to broaden the conversation about science, history, and exploration and expand it beyond the limits of my own discipline, the history of science. Lots of people –explorers, scientists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and historians– have things to say about exploration. The hope is that this blog will not merely be a platform for my ideas but serve as a clearinghouse of ideas about exploration as it is discussed across its many disciplines.
Utah State Libraries
“The History of Science Digital Collection presents some of Utah State University’s most beautiful and significant scientific treasures, many of them from the Merrill-Cazier Library’s recently acquired Peter W. van der Pas history of science collection, a treasure-trove of titles showing the development of scientific thought. Focusing on it’s rarest, most exquisitely illustrated books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, this collection offers works by such major figures in the history of scientific inquiry as Otto Brunfels, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Carolus Linnaeus Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Jan Swammerdam, James Sowerby, Andreas Vesalius, and others.”
