Gilbert Scholarship Websites
History of Science and Magnetism
400 Years of De Magnete - website hosted by NASA commemorating the 400th anniversary of
"De Magnete" - http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm
Scientific Revolution - by Dr Robert A. Hatch at the University of Florida - http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ufhatch/pages/03-sci-rev/SCI-REV-Home/
A guide to Magnetism throughout the ages - http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schools/what/materials/magnetism/top.html
Original Sources
Early English Books Online [EEBO]- contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
The Newton Project - An AHRC-funded project which aims to make Newton's unpublished and published works freely available online - http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html
Biographical Details
Munk's Roll, vol. 1. - Roll of members of the Royal College of Physicians - http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/VolumeI
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [ODNB] - bigraphies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond - http://www.oxforddnb.com/
Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries - A collection of 631 detailed biographies of scientists. Part of the Galileo project, and compiled by the late Richard S. Westfall - http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/catalog.html
Work of Other Scientists
The Galileo Project - a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html
The Newton Project - An AHRC-funded project which aims to make Newton's unpublished and published works freely available online - http://galileo.rice.edu/index.htm
Robert Boyle Project - infomation about the life and work of Robet Boyle and current research on Boyle - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/
The Royal Society - website for world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Includes links to their archive - http://royalsociety.org/
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