2005
ChronoMath
by Riduidel & 3 others
Bienvenue sur ChronoMath
une chronologie des MATHÉMATIQUES
à l'usage des professeurs de mathématiques et des élèves des lycées & collèges
The Independent: Deciphering the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
In the past 4 days alone, classicists have discovered writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others, which had been lost for millennia
The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA
"a landmark study of the human journey"
The Waitt Family Foundation--National Geographic's Genographic Project
"an ambitious global project whose goals are twofold: to capture a snapshot of human history locked within our DNA before it disappears forever, and to highlight the untold stories and uncertain future of indigenous peoples worldwide."
Acoustic Radar.
Acoustic location - detecting aircraft by picking up engine noise. Some bizarre images...
New Scientist Breaking News - Brain reconstruction hints at 'hobbit' intelligence
Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis - a tiny hobbit-like human that lived in Indonesia just 13,000 years ago - confirms it as a unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small brain.
BBC - Science & Nature - Cavemen - Human Evolution
by Morgaine
Take a journey through time, from the last ancestor of chimps and humans to the emergence of modern people.
Science in the 19th Century Periodical
searchable index to the science content of 16 19th C. periodicals
Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
digitised full texts of some rare history of science books
2004
AIP Center for History of Physics Web Sites
Exhibits and Other Online Resources from the American Institute of Physics
Mille Anni di Storia della Scienza
A Thousand Years of Italian Science: timelines (chronologie), and online exhibitions (mostre)
The History of Phrenology on the Web
the most comprehensive website for the history of phrenology—the most popular Victorian science
1970
Antique Spectacles & Other Vision Aids
by Castanjetti
Vision Aids are amazing! Their history is truly fascinating! As works of art, they have a beauty all their own!
