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Image shows the amputation kit of Dyce Davidson, Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University Medical School (1878-1886). Courtesy of Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen

Links sites

• Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Societies

• British Association for the Advancement of Science Founded in 1831, the BAAS now has sections devoted to the sciences - and to the history of science.
• British Society for the History of Science This site incorporates a page of links to journals in the field.
• British Society for the History of Mathematics
• British Society for the Philosophy of Science
• History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Working Group . Dedicated to the study of historical topics in the philosophy of science, from Aristotle to the very recent past.
• History of Science Society, USA
• International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
• International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (Division of the History of Science)
• Newcomen Society (for the study of the history of engineering and technology)
• Scientific Instrument Society
• Scientific Instrument Commission . The SIC is part of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
• Society for the History of Technology, USA
• Society for the Social History of Medicine

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Museums and libraries

• The Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis . A centre for learning that furthers the understanding of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine.
• Bletchley Park . Cryptography and the history of computing in WWII.
• Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
• Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence . Includes an excellent Galileo online exhibition.
• Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University
• National Library of Medicine, USA . Over 60,000 images from the history of medicine.
• National Museum of Science and Industry, London
• Royal College of Surgeons . A gateway to the Hunterian and Odontological Museums; and to the Wellcome Museums of Pathology and Anatomy. There is also a Historical Instrument Collection.
• Royal Society of London . Follow the links for "Library" to see history of science projects sponsored by the Society.
• Science & Society Picture Library
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge University

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Institutions

• Centre for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics . Includes virtual exhibitions, the International Catalog of Sources (ICOS) for History of
  Physics and Allied Sciences, the Physics History Finding Aids web site and much much more.
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
• History and Philosophy of Science Department, Cambridge University
• History and Philosophy of Science Division, University of Leeds
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Needham Research Unit and East Asian History of Science Library, Cambridge
• Science and Technology Studies, University College London
• Wellcome Trust. History of medicine.

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Subjects

• Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library . Alarmingly extensive.
• BT Archives Records of BT and its predecessors pre-dating the company's privatisation in 1984 are open to the public.
• Robert Boyle Home Page . This resource is devoted to the life and work of Robert Boyle (1627-91). It is associated with the Robert Boyle Project, which is based at Birkbeck College, University of London
• Charles Darwin's writings
• Chemistry, History and Philosophy of Chemistry: Bibliographies
• Classic Chemistry . Includes a selection of historical papers, a gateway to other sites in the history of chemistry and much more.
• Classics in the History of Psychology . Includes works by Wundt, Watson, Binet, Freud and others.
• Darwin and Darwinism
• Eugenics . Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement, DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• History and Philosophy of Chemistry: Bibliographies
• Medhist: The History of Medicine Gateway
• Phrenology . The history of phrenology, including images, digitised texts and critical biography.
• Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna . Includes media library, thematic essays, chronology and other resources.
• Teratology in Western medicine through 1800 . A virtual exhibition on the 'telling of wonders' - abnormalities or 'monsters - through the ages.
• Alan Turing Home Page . Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma.
• Victorian Science: An Overview
• Alfred Russel Wallace.

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Discussion lists

• H-Sci-Med-Tech . Includes research and teaching resources.

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Publishers

• Cambridge University Press . United Kingdom site: books and journals in history of science
• Cambridge University Press . USA site: books and journals in history of science, technology and medicine.
• Elsevier Science . Publishers of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
• MIT Press . Check for new books in history of science and, especially, technology.
• University of Chicago Press. Books in history, philosophy and sociology of science, technology and medicine.

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Useful research resources

• British Library: Manuscripts Catalogue
• COPAC . Unified online catalogue of research libraries
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Glasgow University Archives and Business Record Centre
• Higher Education Archives Hub
• HISTORY On-Line (Institute of Historical Research/JISC)
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• National Art Library
• National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists . Established in Oxford in 1973 under the Directorship of Margaret Gowing, this archives project has been based at the University Of Bath since 1987. Archives catalogued relate to a diverse range of topics include atomic physics (Otto Frisch) and computing (Alan Turing).
• National Register of Archives, Historical Manuscripts Commission
• Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment . RSLP-funded programme.
• US Patents on-line . Patents from 1795 to the present day (in varying degrees of detail)
• Web of Science (with citation index). Athens password required.

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