HUMAN ODYSSEY LINKS

Though few, the following links are very interesting and elucidating. Visit them when you have a chance.

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures.
  
• Virtual Renaissance: A journey through time. Travel back through time and space to a world completely different from your own.
  
• Vatican Exhibit Main Hall Images of Midieval Manuscripts and Documents; includes pages from Cicero, Ptolemy, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Pliny, etc. Please take a few minutes to explore.

• Scientists

  Welcome to the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  Lots of information and short biographies of the scientists we are studying.

  THE ASTRONOMICAL MUSEUM.

  Images of historic instruments including astrolabes and early telescopes. "The Astronomical Museum in Bologna was created in 1979, when a first group of instruments was restored on the occasion of the exhibition ĞI materiali dell'Istituto delle Scienzeğ."

  People:

  • Copernicus
    Nicolaus Copernicus.
    
  • Galileo
    The Galileo Project. Wonderful collection of pages on his life and works; good pictures.
  • Kepler
    Kepler's Laws.
    Satellites Everywhere...
    Johannes Kepler.
    Picture of a diagram from Astronomia Nova showing Kepler's elliptical orbit for Mars.
    
  • Newton
    Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727). Brief outline of his life and works.
    Newtonia. A collection of material about Sir Isaac Newton.
    Newton's life. Short bio.
    Sir Isaac Newton.
    Exploring Gravity.
  • Darwin
    The Darwin-Wallace Paper The 1858 joint paper on evolution.
    The Origin of Species On line text of Darwin's book.
    The Voyage of the Beagle Site devoted to his voyage.
    AboutDarwin.com Some good images are on this site.
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  • Art Sites

    • Web Museum, ParisLots of paintings.
    • Carol JacksonA wonderful art site. There's a whole history of the Crusades in paintings there.
    • Leonardo
      "And those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwised esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror. For the first is something in itself, and the other nothingness -- Folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herd of beasts."
      • The Leonardo Museum
      • Leonardo's drawings.

  • Music

    • Music of the Ancient Near East Dr Irving L Finkel, Assistant Curator, Western Asiatic Antiquities, The British Museum.--- He has a hypothetical transcription of a Hurrian Hymn.
    • Ancient Greek Music This site contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios).

• Anthropology and Such

  • University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
  • UC at Berkley Museum of Paleontology
  • The Franklin Instute of Science MuseumTangentially related to our class.
  • Cave Art
    • A virtual tour of the caves of Lascaux
    • The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave
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• Religion

  • The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas If anyone is interested in downloading a text version of the whole thing go to Aquinas : Summa Theologica. I did so; you can find stuff electronically in the text. This is, of course, the "summa" of Catholic theology.
  • Martin Luther (In German & English)Includes a short timeline of the Reformation.And of course you'll want to read the most contorversial (for the time)95 Theses of Martin Luther

• Environment

  • ScorecardInformation service provided by Environmental Defense. Information on environmental pollution throughout the country.
  • HUD emaps. HUD maps, includes population etc. and superfund locations.

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