Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Science &
Mathematics
This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is
part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net.
Science and Mathematics
Resources on the history of science are growing, but few focus
specifically on the eighteenth century. Most of the sources
below are well organized, though, and will lead you to relevant
material quickly.
- General Resources:
- World
Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine -- Large archive of Web resources on the history of
science.
- Bob Bruen's History of
Science Page -- Bruen's own essays and links to other
resources.
- Eric's
Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography (Virginia) -- Brief
biographical sketches for hundreds of scientists and
mathematicians, including some portraits. Requires frames.
- Jesuits and
the Sciences: 1540-1995 (Loyola Univ. of Chicago) --
Information on Jesuit contributions to the sciences, including
images and some rare E-texts. Arranged chronologically.
- Pre-History
of Cognitive Science Web (Carl Stahmer, UCSB) -- A
thoroughly annotated bibliography on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-c.
models of human cognition. Only a few figures are represented so
far.
- Evolution:
Theory and History (Rob and David Polly, Berkeley) --
Extensive site on evolutionary theory, with brief accounts of
many 18th-c. figures, including Hooke, Buffon, Linnaeus, Erasmus
Darwin, Lamarck, Malthus, and Cuvier.
- The
Euler Project (Ed Sandifer, Connecticut State) -- Information
on and selections from texts by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
- Mathematics:
- History
of Mathematics (University of St. Andrews) -- Extensive
general site on the history of maths. Includes brief discussions
of hundreds of mathematicians, bibliographies, and timelines.
- Mathematicians
of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Trinity
College Dublin) -- Short accounts of a few dozen
mathematicians, taken from W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account
of the History of Mathematics (4th Edition, 1908).
- History
of Mathematics (Clark) -- Briefly annotated list of other
Web resources.
- The
Geometry of War, 1500-1750 (Oxford) -- Information from an
exhibition on early modern military architecture.
- The
Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (Robert Bruen, Harvard) --
Includes portraits and brief information on the Lucasian
Professors of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth
centuries.
- George
Berkeley (1685-1753) (David R. Wilkins, Trinity College
Dublin) -- Biography, bibliography, original essays, and links on
Berkeley, as part of a history of mathematics archive. Very
impressive.
- Medicine:
- Scientific Instruments:
- Galileo:
- The
Galileo Project Homepage (Rice) -- Extensive hypertext site
on Galileo's life and works, with chronologies, a bibliography,
links, and images and descriptions of places and scientific
instruments.
- Haller:
- Berner
Haller-Projekt -- Biographical data on Albrecht von Haller,
1708-77, and informationon the project to publish his works. In
English and German.
- La Mettrie:
- Julien
Offray de La Mettrie (Wisconsin) -- Very brief page on La
Mettrie, with the text of L'Homme machine (in English) and
a brief bibliography.
- Lavoisier:
- Lavoisier's
Friends (France) -- Extensive information on Antoine-Laurent
de Lavoisier, including a images, reviews, and a large
bibliography. English and French. Requires frames.
- Carolus Linnaeus:
- Newton:
See also Philosophy.