Research Guides: History 110: History of Science and Medicine: Primary Sources

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This page focuses on Primary Sources that have both Medicine and Science content. For more specific sources, please see the Medicine Primary Sources and Science Primary Sources pages.

Library of Congress Science Reference Service
Consider browsing the Bibliographies and Research Guides or the Tracer Bullets sections for topic ideas.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Lets you search a number of 19th-century general-interest publications.
World Digital Library - Natural Science
Breaks out into a variety of scientific disciplines. Also browse the technology category from the homepage.

Government Documents @ Calvin T Ryan Library: there are AMAZING resources hidden here. More recent content is searchable in the library catalog, but older documents require browsing the 2nd floor Government Documents area. The FDLP explains how the materials are organized.

British Library Newspapers, 1800-1900
Forty-eight newspapers from 19th-century Britain. Try searching for notable names like Charles Darwin or scientific theories.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Includes 32 million pages from books, pamphlets, and essays. Try playing with search terms and using the advanced search to select the "Science, Technology, and Medicine" collections.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages from the 19th century.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Cover-to-cover access to hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Internet History of Science Sourcebook
A variety of sources from the ancient world to the late 1900s, organized by culture and topic.