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History of Science, Mathematics & Technology: Primary Sources: Evolution & Natural Science
What is a primary source?
Primary sources include documents or artifacts created by a witness to or participant in an event. They can be firsthand testimony or evidence created during the time period that you are studying.
Primary sources may include diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music. The collection and analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.
Primary Sources: Evolution & Natural Sciences
- Charles Darwin's LibraryA digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin.
- Darwin Correspondence ProjectRead and search the full texts of more than 7,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 8,000 more. Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1868.
- Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary HistoryUtilizing over 300 scanned documents, photographs, audio clips and video excerpts, this website narrates the breathless details of the pursuit of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
- Linus Pauling Research NotebooksThis collection includes forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself
- Wallace Online CollectionThe collection of over 5,000 items includes ‘personal and related family papers, correspondence, accounts of expenditure, publishers’ proofs, reprints, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, press cuttings, lecture notes and obituaries’
