Primary Sources: History: The Sciences

The creator of the alchemy web site, Adam McLean, is a well known authority on and enthusiast for alchemical texts and symbolism, the editor and publisher of over 40 books on alchemical and Hermetic ideas.

Provides access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time.

Selected collection content available online, on topics such as aviation, the environment, medicine, and inventions.

Access to over 100,000 titles and over 170,000 volumes on the study of living organisms.

The largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Darwin ever published. From the United Kingdom.

The illustrated publication began in 1787 and it the longest running botanical magazine. Accessed through the United States National Agricultural Library.

Digitized records of the principals of the Green Revolution, the worldwide collaborative effort to expand food crop production that traces its roots to the University of Minnesota in the first half of the 20th century.

A collection of historical science texts from ancient, medieval and modern history.

Nearly a quarter million digitized images from the History of Science Collection offer researchers the opportunity to view such items as books, maps, photographs, and manuscripts.

Contains over 51,500 images (correspondence, notebooks, blueprints, articles, photographs) documenting Bell's invention of the telephone, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939.

Access to documents that chronicle the extraordinary life and achievements of Thomas Alva Edison. From Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

A selection of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s papers (diaries and notebooks, correspondence, scrapbooks, drawings, etc.), at the Library of Congress documenting the lives of the Wright brothers; largely from 1900 to 1940.