Alan J. Cain

RE: https://hcommons.social/@bho/116770184058726900

One thing I would add to this article is that the Biodiversity Heritage Library has scans of many older general scientific journals (not just those related to biology/life sciences), which are invaluable to anyone working in the history of science. I have used it frequently in my work on the history of mathematics.

Many of the same journals are available elsewhere, e.g. archive.org. But finding particular journal volumes on archive.org can be hit-or-miss, depending on how complete+correct the metadata is. The BHL lists the volumes for each journal.

#HistSci #HistMath #histodons

Jun 18 at 10:05amWeb
Show threadDan HattonJun 18

@ajcain

ISTR finding a lot of good foundations-of-thermodynamics papers on BHL, including the paper in which Joule originally reported the equivalence of heat and work.

Show threadtheHigherGeometerJun 18
@ajcain I've used it for history of math stuff too!