University of Helsinki
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Science, Technology and Medicine 1780-1925 is an archive of documents covers one of the most vibrant and creative periods in scientific research and discovery, the long nineteenth century. The content is sourced from the world’s preeminent libraries and archives.
The modern researcher can exploit the more than 3.5 million pages of journals, books, reports, and personal documents to explore the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge, tracing the changes from the Newtonian world to that of Einstein, from the horse to the automobile, from medical treatments based on humors and bloodletting to antiseptics and epidemiology.
The subcollections included:
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Minutes and Correspondence
- American Medical Periodicals
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Civil Engineering
- Color Theory and Practice
- Electricity and Electromagnetism
- Evolution and the Origin of Species
- Mathematics
- Reports of Explorations Printed in the Documents of the United States Government
- Scientific and Technical Periodicals from the Royal Society of London’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900