Alexei Kouprianov Links in History of Science

Librariy catalogues / Bibliographies

• The National Library of Russia
  • Catalogues
  • Cards, alphabetically for books in Russian (1725—1997)
  • Russian books (1708—1800), a fully searchable database
  • Books in European Languages printed in Russia (1701—1800), a fully searchable database
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
• Library of Congress and its catalog
• Bibliothèque nationale de France--Page d'accueil
• National library of Canada
• Eureka: bibliographical index to the literature in the history of science and medicine. Authorisation required.

Reference matters

Encyclopaedias

• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, browsable
• Brockhaus & Efron incomplete, browsable
• "Big" Soviet Encyclopaedia incomplete
• MegaBook & KM.RU
• Britannica
• Lycos Fact Monster: Encyclopedia Search gives you access to more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Radical Academy
• History of science and technology from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent homepage
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Encyclopedia of Marxism at the Marxists Internet Archive
• Encyclopedias at Яndex

Biographies online

• Internationaler Biographischer Index
• Russian Biographical Dictionary
• Moscow University Professors and Curators
• Allgemeine/Neue Deutsche Biographie and its search page
• Tema Biography and Genealogy: Nordic biographies online at the Runeberg project website
• Nordisk familjebok at the Runeberg project website
• Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon at the Runeberg project website
• The Biography Channel
• List of people from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Biografie-Skizzen von Biologinnen und Biologen
• Österreich-Lexicon

Maps

• MultiMap.com: a great modern interactive world atlas
• Rambler's NaKarte.ru: atlas of Russia, including City maps of St. Petersburg and Moscow
• Maps at National Geographic
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: maps
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: links to historical map sites
• Library of Congress: Historical Maps
• Historical maps at ancestry.com
• Historical Cities
• Genmaps: Old maps of Great Britain
• Links to historical maps at Gumilevica
• КАРТОГРАФИЧЕСКАЯ ROSSICA Европейские гравированные чертежи и карты России, изданные в XVI - XVIII столетиях
• Google directory for historical maps
• Latin place names

Dictionaries and translation services

Dictionaries general

• Google directory for Dictionaries

Latin

• Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• Perseus Search for dictionary headwords (Latin to English)
• Lexis (Latin to English)
• Lingua Latina Aeterna
• Google directory for Latin
• Latin place names
• Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions

Française

• On-line French/English dictionary
• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form
• Bilingual French-English dictionary
• Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé
• Dictionnaires d'autrefois: French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
• Le NOUVEAU Grand dictionnaire terminologique

German

• LEO Englisch German Dictionary An Online Service by Informatik der Technischen Universität München
• German <-> English Dictionary at TU Chemnitz: about 145,000 entries

Svenska

• Swedish to Russian (and vice versa) Dictionary
• Svenska for Russians, 12 lessons with audio and lesson transcripts by Sveriges Radio
• Google directory for Svenska

English

• Merriam-Webster online

Texts online

• Public domain: what it is, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Online libraries

• Project Gutenberg and its Distributed Proofreaders
• Project Gutenberg of Australia
• Internet public library, and, specifically its books section
• Bartleby online library
• Virtuelle Allgemeinbibliothek
• The WWW Virtual Library
• Moshkov's library
• Auditorium.ru, an OSI project, full textst available upon a free registration
• Institute for philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Institute for the History of Science and Technology (Moscow)
• Oxford Text Archive Website
• The Online Books Page
• Access the Great Books

Periodicals

• JStor (authorisation required)
• Critical Inquiry
• Logos: Russian Journal for Literature and Philosophy
• Courier of Education
• Отечественные записки

Historical authors online

• The Perseus Digital Library, text-only
• Perseus Table of Contents Browser: Greek and Roman Materials
• The Greek Philosophy Archive
• Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France NB! MSIE required, Opera does not work!
• Humanities texts initiative and, more specifically, the Making of America collection (I've found there the Whewell's History of inductive sciences)
• Search and browse the Digitalisation Centre of the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, also see: Digitalization Centre homepage
• The Age of Natural History at the Kyoto University Library Exhibitions page [Pitton de Tournefort Elements, Syst. Nat. I, Pinax]
• Linda Hall Library: Rare book library in Kansas City, MO, specializing in the history of science [Micrographia by R. Hooke, etc].
• Eighteenth century project
• Hartmut Krech's "The Culture and History of Science Page": Kant, Bacon, Comte
• ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing
• Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18^th and 19^th Century journals
• Zeitschriften der Aufklärung: Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum
• Austrian Newspapers Online
• Geförderte Projekte im DFG-Programm Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen
• Smithsonian Institute Digital Library
• Historical Medical Library, including Leonhard Fuchs'es De stirpium
• Kurt Stüber's Online Library: Eine Sammlung historischer und moderner Biologiebücher [Mirror at biolib.de]
• MIA Reference Writers at the Marxists Internet Archive

Documents

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
• Repositories of Primary Sources

Special projects: primary texts in history of science online

• Linnaean correspondence online
• The Linnean Society of London--History
• Papers of Sir Joseph Banks
• Caspar Bauhin project
• Darwin Correspondence Project
• The writings of Charles Darwin on the web by John van Wyhe, Ph.D.
• The Galileo Project
• Haller project
• Joseph Dalton Hooker website
• Immanuel Kant: Gesammelte Schriften
• Lamarck project
• Isaac Newton alchemical and theological manuscripts
• The John Ray Initiative website, and The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation, by John Ray, 1691
• Kräuterbuch von Jacobus Theodorus "Tabernaemontanus" anno 1625
• PositiWeb Site: Auguste Comte
• Schprachspiel: An Internet Wittgenstein Guide
• The History of Phrenology on the Web By John van Wyhe, Ph.D.
• Google directory for the works by William Whewell
• Thesaurus Eruditionis at CAMENA (Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum)
• Google directory for philosophers
• Rare Books at the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950
• Scans of Paleontology Papers on the Web
• Alchemical texts 16c--present

Multifunctional Portals

• Exploring and Collecting History Online
• Social Science Information Gateway
• Victorian Web
• Human Nature Review and Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture by Robert M. Young
• Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical rather a guidebook than a source
• Internet History of Science Sourcebook at Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul Halsall / Fordham University
• Internet for History and Philosophy of Science: a guide to the websources
• Philosophy on the Web
• Scholarly Societies Project
• History Encyclopaedia at ZUM

Subjects

Sex and Gender

• Rictor Norton's Homepage: Gay history and literature
• Women and society Russian internet portal

History of Economic thought

• The History of Economic Thought Website
• McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
• Links to General History of Economics Resources at The History of Economics web site (part of the Economic History Services Fileserver)
• History of Economic Thought a syllabus by Acad. Entov (in Russian)

History of Sociology

• 50 Klassiker der Soziologie - Ein Lexikon

History of Physics

• Links to History of Physics and Astronomy Websites
• SI units background
• History of physics timeline to 1799, 1800 to 1899, 1900 to 1949, from 1950
• Particle Physics Timeline at The Particle Adventure. NB! don't switch off the pictures! They are vitally important for navigation.
• Super string theory, including its history and timeline
• A collection of chronologies arranged by subjects many of them concern history of physics
• A Timeline of Symmetry in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
• AIP Center for History of Physics Web Sites
• Albert Einstein Online

History of Mathematics

• Mathematics History Topics Index
• The History of Mathematics by David R. Wilkins / Trinity College, Dublin
• Materials for the History of Statistics at the University of York Mathematics Department and its mirror at UCLA

Science in Russia

• Virtual Guide to the History of Russian Science and Technology
• Social History of Fatherland's Science online archive and library

History of Science: Institutions

Education and Research

• Institute for the History of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia)
• Institute for the History of Science and Technology (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin
• Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik Universität Hamburg
• Biohistoricum Neuburg an der Donau

Professional Societies

• History of Science Society (HSS)
• British Society for the History of Science (BSCHS)
• International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• The Society for the History of Natural History
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)
• Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie (DGGTB)

Search and reference

• Google and its advanced search
• Яndex and its advanced search
• Currency base at the Central Bank of Russia