Monday, November 13, 2006

Sites for the Writings of Famous Scientists and Inventors

Darwin Online:

http:darwin-online.org.uk/

This site contains Darwin's complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts. There are over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images.

The Newton Project:

http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1

The goal of this site is to make all of the works of Sir Isaac Newton available free online.

The Einstein Archives

http://www.alberteinstein.info/

The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to an extensive Archival Database, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era.

Robert Boyle Project:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle

About a fifth of Boyle's writings are now online.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Archives:

http://lamarck.cnrs.fr

Contains digital photographs of the biologist's 19,000-strong herbarium collection as well as scanned in pages from his manuscripts and transcriptions of his published works.

The Thomas A. Edison Papers Project:

http://edison.rutgers.edu

Holds scans of >180,000 digital images from the 5M pages contained in the Edison archives.

Collections of Eva Helen and Linus Pauling Papers:

http://osulibrary/oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/index.html

Contains ~500,000 items, of which ~100,000 have been digitized.