The Hooke Folio Online is an edition of images and transcriptions of a long lost manuscript of the papers of Robert Hooke, returned to the archive of the Royal Society of London in May 2006. Robert Hooke was one of the key figures of the scientific revolution and this manuscript describes the working life of the very earliest days of the Royal Society.
A resource for book history and literary technologies that includes exhibits, course materials, and a bibliography. Exhibits include medieval manuscripts, an exhibit on medieval scribes and their tools, and Renaissance toxicology manuscripts.
Website and free geolocated walking tour audio app for iPhone and Android keyed to the social and cultural history of Florence designed for wide user base and age group. With the app, the user navigates Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map. On the website, users can read about each guide and the places they go (‘Stories’), discover more about the project team (‘About’), and find out how the characters were designed (‘Blog’).
Guide characters are:
Cosimo: Master of Florence, 1459
First citizen or godfather? Cosimo de’ Medici takes you through the city he’s spent a lifetime trying to make his own.
Giovanni: Neighbourhood World/People and Politics, 1490
Discover local worlds and get a different perspective on the heart of Florence as Giovanni, a wool worker, walks you through a day in his life.
Niccolosa: Saints and Sinners, 1492
Explore Florence’s sacred foundations with Niccolosa Alessandri as the city faces an uncertain future after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Marietta: City of Women, 1561
Join Marietta as she traces her journey from the city orphanage to life as a silk weaver.
Ercole: Crime and Punishment, 1566
From the torture chamber to the gallows, Ercole shows you how justice was done in the Renaissance city.
The app and website have been written by an international team of researchers and is a collaboration between the universities of Exeter, Cambridge and Toronto, with project partners at the National Gallery (London), Polo Museale della Toscana and Firenze Patrimonio Mondiale (UNESCO).
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Users have the ability to search full-text books and read them online.
A complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 folios of the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib (c1600-62), a great seventeenth-century ‘intelligencer’ and man of science.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/article/explorers
A collection of educational resources based on the biographies of the explorers Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. All resources are available in both English and French.
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
This site provides links to ‘European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated’ It has resources for most of the continent from prehistory to the present.
Marburger Repertorium zur Ubersetzungsliteratur im deutschen Fruhhumanismus (MRFH)
The MRFH provides access to early humanist translators and their German works. The project covers the university and the Heidelberg court, as well as the cities of Strasbourg, Basel, Augsburg, and Nuremberg. A total of 144 works from the period of 1450–1500 are listed. The project also covers the transition from manuscripts to printed books. A total of 122 manuscripts and 145 incunabula have been examined and described in detail. The later printed tradition up to the year 1600 has only been included in short entries, which include 273 printings from the sixteenth century. Digital images of manuscripts and prints have been incorporated.
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Mapping the Republic of Letters explores scholarly networks from Erasmus to Benjamin Franklin using vizualization, timelines, and network analysis. The project’s datasets includes information on scholarly correspondence, correspondence networks, publications, maps, and travelogs. To date it includes case studies on Voltaire, Galileo, and Athanasius Kircher.
