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General Science
Physical Science Resources
The Great Web of Science
USGS science on the internet
Yahoo Index
An index of science topics that will require further searching.
Newton's Apple
Any of the "Science Try Its" make good experiments
The Exploratorium
The Exploratoriam in San Francisco is a hand-on science museum.
ScienceNet
A science question and answer data base covering all aspects of physical and biological science
http://www.campus.bt.com/CampusWorld/pub/ScienceNet/first.htm.
Discover Magazine
A magazine avalable also in print has good up to date and general articles about all areas of science.
Scientific American
A good, but more technical general scienfe magazine. Also available in print.
Biographies
Copernicus
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm
Humphrey Davy
Einstein: Image and Impact
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/albert_einstein5a.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/einstein.html�
St. Thomas Aquinas
Septemia Zenobia
http://www.zenobias.com/Zenobias.html
A brief but enlightening history of one of historyÕs more formidable women.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits. 02 Dec 2000. 02 July 2001
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/florence_sub.html
Artist and Inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Lucidcafe, Biographies Archive 24 June 1999. 02 July 2001
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96apr/leonardo.html
Biographical Notes. The Leonardo Museum, Vinci, Italy 23 April 1999. 02 July 2001
http://www.leonet.it/comuni/vincimus/inbiogra.html
Codex Arundel. A Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci 18 Jan 1998. 02 July 2001
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/data/241.htm
Da Vinci Glider. Speed 2 Work 2001. 02 July 2001
http://sped2work.tripod.com/leoglider.html
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/tan/lite/sci/pauline.html
Inventors Workshop. Museum of Science Boston 28 July 1999. 02 July 2001
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsWorkshop.html
Island of Freedom. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1996. 02 July 2001
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/DAVINCI.HTM
Kausal, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci 27 May 2001. 2 July 2001
http://www.kausal.com/leonardo/denunciation.html
"Leonardo da Vinci." Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001. 02 July 2001
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761561520
MacTutor History of Mathematic Archive. 27 July 2001. 2 July 2001
http://www.groups.dcs.stand.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leonardo.html
Mechanical Calculator, Leonardo da VinciÕs. Maxfield & Motrose Interactive, Inc.
http://www.maxmon.com/1500ad.htm
Mex Plaza Web Museum, Paris 20 May 1996. 02 July 2001
http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/vinci/
Online, Leonardo. National Museum of Science and Technology 27 Jan 2000. 02 July 2001
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/Default.htm
Renaissance Man. Museum of Science Boston 28 July 1999. 02 July 2001
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html
Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology. University of California at Berkeley Lab
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/SH/MDL/Invention/Davinci.Bio.html�
James Prescott Joule
http://www.msu.edu/~brennem2/joule/home.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/275/000049128/
http://all-biographies.com/scientists/james_prescott_joule.htm
Alessandro Volta
Galileo
Galileo's Life (University of Virginia)
http://Landau1.phys.Virginia.EDU/classes/109/lectures/gal_life.htm
The Galileo Project (Rice University)
http://es.rice.edu:80/ES/humsoc/Galileo//
University of Tennessee, Astronomy 161
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/galileo.html
Aranon, H. "Galileo"
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/galileo.html
The trial of Gallileo by Douglas Linder (c) 2002
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/galileo.html
Astronomy
Hawaii Astronomical Society
Bishop Museum Planetariumm
UH Institute for Astronomy
NASA
NASA has information on various space related projects including the Hubble telescope and the Mars mission
The Solar System
A complete information guide to the solar system. Everything you ever wanted to know and more.
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
Here's another one that also gives a great view of our solar neighborhood
Another one with slightly different viewpoint
http://www.glassescrafter.com/information/views-of-our-solar-system.html
Interactive Planeterium
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html
Kepler
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html
Telescopes
Keck Planetarium
PBS. Deep space questions
Strobel, Nick. Telescope. (July 2,2001)
Invention of the Telescope
Stonehenge
Use http://www.google.com. Go to advanced search and enter "Stonehenge Archeology" in the 'with all of the words' field. Below where it says'Domain' select 'only' and enter .edu in the field blank. This will select sites only from universities.
Here are a couple of other good sites:
Astrology
A brief but useful summary of the history of the cosmic art.
Periodic Table of the Elements
Two versions of the periodic table of the elements. Useful to see the organization and use of the table
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab/periodic-table
Los Alamos Lab
A good periodic table. Clicking on the image mapped table give a page on each elements which includes its history, uses, sources, properties.
Physics
An Index of physics topics
Entropy
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/entropcon.html#c1
Galileo & Einstein
Alchemy
Chinese Alchemy
The alchemy web site and virtual library
McLean, Adam (1995) Introduction to Alchemy.
Abraxas Tarot (1998) Alchemy and Alchemical Practices URL:
History of Science
Museum of the History of Science
Links to many history of physics, chemistry, and scientists
A Physics Course (Phys 109n) From University of Virginia with similar material to our course
History of Astronomy
Mesopotamia
The Mesopotamian site gives good insight to the connection between mysticism and astronomy.
Tycho Brahe
The Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe. From the History of Science Museum, Oxford
Misc. Topics
Rube Goldberg Machines
Delightful cartoons depicting clever and complicated machines that accomplish very little
Fractals
Make your own fractals
Fractal Art
MBTI
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Like all personality tests, the results may be slightly variable from day to day. This test is most useful when the results are applied to learning. More specifically, it is the approach to learning. If you have more questions you might want tosee your college counselor or other professional.
A good description of the sixteen basic personality types can be found at:
Mathematical Encyclopedia
This site has all sorts of things relating to mathematics, such as "Dealing With Math Anxiety.
http://www.mathacademy.com/platonic_realms/minitext/minihome.html
Art of M.C. Escher
Here youÕll find a selection of Escher's work.
Greek Philosophy
updated 07/02/07 by RCBrill