Research Website

Archimedes

Sources and tools for the study of the history of mechanics.

Sample Page: View Galileo's Treatise Dialogs on Two World Systems (1661)

Research Website

Kants naturtheoretische Begriffe (KNB)

This database presents the scientific terms used by Immanuel Kant and puts them into the context of 18th-century science.

Sample Page

Research Website

CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

In this digital cuneiform research library, Assyriologists, curators, and historians of science work together on cuneiforms. Their goal is to make cuneiforms available online and to offer adequate software tools for research purposes.

Sample Page: View cuneiform of the Codex Hammurapi 1

Digital Research Website

History of Quantum Physics

This project aspires to a deeper understanding of the genesis and development of quantum physics.

Digital Research Website

Machine Drawings 1200–1650

Presenting about 1,800 machine drawings, the database supplements the sources relevant to the history of mechanics made available by the Archimedes project.

Digital Research Library

Development of Mechanical Knowledge in China

A joint research project conducted by the partner group of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Sample Page: View Athanasius Kirchner's "China monumentis" (1667)

Research Infrastructure

European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO)

The European Cultural Heritage Online Initiative works to bring together sources, research, and institutional partners in order to use the Internet as a collaborative research tool.

Sample Page: View Descartes' "Discours de la méthode" (1668)

Digital Research Library

Einstein in Annalen der Physik

This project is dedicated to publishing Albert Einstein's papers in “Annalen der Physik” as full texts in digital form.

Sample Page: View Albert Einstein's "Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" (1916)

Digital Research Library

Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion

Electronic representation of Galileo's working notes documenting the genesis of his new theory of motion.

Sample Page: View folio 36 r (final text)

Digital Research Library

The Years of the Cupola 1417–1436

Administrative archives of the Cathedral of Florence.

Digital Research Library

Scholarly Voyages (Humboldt Project)

Scholarly voyages to the Canary Islands in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sample Page: View map of the Canary Islands (1802)

Meta-Catalog

Medieval Manuscripts (Jordanus)

Digital meta-catalog of medieval manuscripts on mathematics.

Digital Research Website

Mesopotamian Year Names

Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian date formulae prepared by Marcel Sigrist and Peter Damerow.

Digital Research Website

Drawing with Optical Instruments

This digital library is a database of texts and images from the 15th century on the usage of optical instruments for depictions in the arts and sciences.

Sample Page: View Alexander's Graphic Mirror (1840)

Digital Research Library

Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University)

This is the Berlin mirror site of the Perseus Digital Library of Tufts University. Perseus is an evolving digital library designed to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible.

Sample Page: View C. Julius Caesar "De bello Gallico"

Digital Research Website

Microscopic Slides

This website informs about the project on slides which was part of the MP Research Network (2005-2010). It will not be updated.

Digital Research Website

Pratolino – The History of Science in a Garden

Sources and maps on the history of science of the 16th-century Tuscan Pratolino Garden.

Digital Research Library

The Virtual Laboratory: Tools for Research on the History of Experimentalization

The Virtual Laboratory is an Internet platform where sources on the history of the life sciences and their material culture are presented and annotated.

Sample Page: View Hugo Münsterberg's laboratories in Freiburg and at Harvard (1891/1893)