ALCHEMY – CHEMISTRY
Online Reference – Online Texts - Learned Societies and Special Interest Groups
Alchemy Lab
Links to sites devoted to the history of alchemy in a range of cultures and periods
The Alchemy Web Site & Virtual Library
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.htmlDivided into over 1300 sections & providing thousands of pages of text, over 2000 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books & manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory & general reference material. Highlights include:
Alchemical texts
Transcriptions of a range of texts from the sixteenth century onwards, in English and other languages
Database of alchemical manuscripts
Lists about 4000 manuscripts from over 100 libraries; includes most of the major collections of such manuscripts
List of Ph.D. theses on alchemy
Specialist sections on Islamic Alchemy, Indian Alchemy, and Chinese Alchemy
History of Chemistry Links
From the WWW Virtual Library
Collected bibliography on the history and philosophy of chemistry
From Hyle - International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry
History of Chemistry
Information on the history of chemistry classified by subject and by individual, compiled by the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
The Golden Elixir: a website on Chinese alchemy
Website maintained by Fabrizio Pregadio, Stanford University
British Eighteenth-Century Chemical Terms
From Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology
Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia: Biografie
100 Distinguished European Chemists
Federation of European Chemical Societies Millenium Project
Biographies of 18th, 19th and 20th century chemists
ONLINE TEXTS AND IMAGES
From Alchemy to Chemistry:Five Hundred Years of Rare and Interesting Books
Website developed from an exhibit held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book and Special Collections Library
Selected pdf images from 36 significant books in the history of chemistry
Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
From the Classic Chemistry website, Le Moyne College
De Morveau, Guyton (1737 - 1816); Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743 - 1794); Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748 - 1822); De Fourcroy, Antoine Francois (1755 - 1809). Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique. (Paris, 1787)
PDF images
Method of Chymical Nomenclature; translated by James St. John (London, 1788)
Transcription
Chemische Briefe von Justus von Liebig
Edgar Fahs Smith Collection
Images from the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection on the History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania.
The Julius Ruska Digital Library
Includes digital editions of books by Ruska.
LEARNED SOCIETIES AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group
Société française de chimie: Club histoire de la chimie
Gesellschaft deutscher Chemiker: Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
CHEM-HIST
History of chemistry electronic discussion group