History of Science

La Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid offers public access to a historical collection of great value for the history of science and the humanities. It includes almost 3,000 books digitized in full text and incorporates more than 47,000 prints and illustrations. Strongest between the 15th and 18th centuries. Interface in Spanish.

An extensive collection including digital objects (print material, documents, photographs, etc.) related to the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and Communism, diplomacy and law, as well as science and technology.

US federally funded technical reports issued before 1975. Space exploration, alternative energy sources, nuclear reactors, mining, and water purification are among the topics in more than 20,000 documents summarizing engineering and regulatory investigations. Page images with searchable metadata.

Journal of the Scottish-American astronomer. She was a pioneer in the classification of stellar spectra and the first to discover white dwarf stars. (Williamina P. Fleming, 15 May 1857 - 21 May 1911)

Read and search the full texts of more than 9,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 6,000 more. Discover complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1873. [University of Cambridge]

The present collection adds to the published evidence illumination primarily of Gilman's personal life, but also shows the consistency of her ideas throughout her life and, in the unpublished manuscripts, their later development.