Category Archives: Digital projects

by Kerry Magruder On Monday morning Janux, OU’s new digital course platform, launches with the following courses, all of which offer free public enrollment: Native Peoples of Oklahoma Practical Importance of Human Evolution Chemistry of Beer Understanding and Detecting Deception … Continue reading →

“The currently available digital copies of Darwin’s great work suffer serious defects from the point of view of both human and machine readers.” (Goldstein, editor’s introduction) Adam M. Goldstein, of Iona College, has created a structured source text of Charles … Continue reading →

A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation by Ron B. ThomsonGuest post by Ron B. Thomson The astrolabe was the most important scientific instrument in the Middle Ages, and the treatise ascribed to Masha’allah (ca 800 C.E., … Continue reading →

John van Wyhe, editor of the Darwin Online project, today announced the opening of the Wallace Online project, three years in the making. Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) is well-known as a co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of descent … Continue reading →

The Research Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has launched a new publishing initiative: Edition Open Access. With a strong editorial board to oversee publications and peer review, this initiative provides a venue for publication … Continue reading →

Animated Anatomies, an exhibit curated by Valeria Finucci and Maurizio Rippa-Bonati, will open to public viewing in early April at Duke University. A companion website is now available, offering photographs and videos of these visually stunning and technically complex anatomical … Continue reading →

Works published in Europe from 1454 through 1500 are called incunabula. A project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to digitize the incunabula of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich has just crossed the threshold of one million digital pages. … Continue reading →

Several large history of medicine libraries in the U.S. have begun a collaborative digital project called The Medical Heritage Library, as described in their blog: http://www.medicalheritage.org. The Medical Heritage Library promotes open access to historical resources in medicine, with 8,500 … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered if the text you need might be online but you just can’t seem to find it? One tip is to click the “Digital Projects” tab in the right margin of this blog to see descriptions of … Continue reading →

The Archimedes Project is constructing a comprehensive library of works in physical science printed during the Scientific Revolution. The project is also the focal point for the application to the history of science of the linguistic technologies pioneered by the … Continue reading →

The Crawford Project is a collaborative digital initiative between the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and the historians of science at The University of Edinburgh. The project will promote the study of rare texts in medieval and early modern astronomy held by … Continue reading →