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This page lists a few of many links to physical science resources on the worldwide web. There are many others. If you find one you like, please send it to me and I will add it to the page.

I try to keep the list up to date, but it is impossible.If you find one that doesn't work please send the URL to me so that I can fix or remove it.


General Science

Physical Science Resources

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/physical.html

The Great Web of Science

http://imagine-hawaii.com/science.html

USGS science on the internet

http://www.usgs.gov/network/science/index.html

Yahoo Index

An index of science topics that will require further searching.

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/

Newton's Apple

Any of the "Science Try Its" make good experiments

http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/index.html

The Exploratorium

The Exploratoriam in San Francisco is a hand-on science museum.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

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.

http://www.discover.com/

Scientific American

A good, but more technical general scienfe magazine. Also available in print.

http://www.sciam.com/

Biographies

Copernicus

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm

Humphrey Davy

http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Davy.html

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

http://www.value.net/~bromike/aquinas/thomas.html

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule

Alessandro Volta

http://www.italian-american.com/volta.htm

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

http://www.hawastsoc.org/

Bishop Museum Planetariumm

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/planetarium/planetarium.html

UH Institute for Astronomy

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/ifa.html

NASA

NASA has information on various space related projects including the Hubble telescope and the Mars mission

http://www.nasa.gov/

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

http://www.solarviews.com/

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

www.princeton.edu/~his291/Keplerian_Solids.html

Telescopes

Keck Planetarium

http://www.keckobservatory.org/news.php

PBS. Deep space questions

http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/hubble/

Strobel, Nick. Telescope. (July 2,2001)

http://www.astronomynotes.com/telescop/s2.htm

Invention of the Telescope

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/lipperhey.html

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:

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMSStonehenge.html

http://exn.ca/mysticplaces/stonehenge.cfm

Astrology

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.

http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm

Physics

An Index of physics topics

http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/index.html

Entropy

http://www.entropylaw.com/

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/entropcon.html#c1

http://www.answers.com/topic/entropy?cat=health

Galileo & Einstein

http://erwin.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109/

Alchemy

Chinese Alchemy

http://helios.unive.it/~dsao//pregadio/index.html

The alchemy web site and virtual library

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html

McLean, Adam (1995) Introduction to Alchemy.

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/intro.com

Abraxas Tarot (1998) Alchemy and Alchemical Practices URL:

http:// www.tarot-decks.com/alchemy.htm�

History of Science

Museum of the History of Science

Famous Scientists

Links to many history of physics, chemistry, and scientists

A Physics Course (Phys 109n) From University of Virginia with similar material to our course

A start for topics in the history of science

History of Astronomy

A list of topics in the history of astronomy.

Mayan Astronomy

Mesopotamia

The Mesopotamian site gives good insight to the connection between mysticism and astronomy.

The British Museum has a great site to learn about history, culture, and astronomy of Assyria, Babylon, Sumer

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

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/show.html

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:

http://typelogic.com/

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.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~davemc/Pic/Escher/

Greek Philosophy

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/greekphi.htm

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html


updated 07/02/07 by RCBrill