Early Modern (15th-17th centuries)

The Recipes Project (Early Modern Recipes Online Collective) is an international group of scholars interested in the history of recipes, ranging from magical charms to veterinary remedies.

Continental Europe

EEO (Early European Books) (Harvard Login)

  • Same as Early English Books Online, but for continental Europe
  • Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Erasmus, Kepler, Spinoza etc. 
  • NOT full text searchable

 Italy

The Galileo Project-- the life and work of Galileo. Includes English translation of letters from Maria Celeste Galileo to her father (the primary sources used for the 1999 book Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel). ​

Museo Galileo vast collection including both research content and online exhibitions, from manuscripts to scientific instruments. 

Galileo’s manuscripts search at Museo Galileo

Great Britain

Newton Papers (Cambridge Digital Library) offers Newton's manuscripts

The Newton Project – Includes all of Sir Isaac Newton's writings (printed or not), with translations, and also includes the listing of books in Newton's library.

Boyle Papers Online: Birkbeck, University of London  - Images of the core volumes of the papers of Robert Boyle, considered one of the founders of modern science

The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle: The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters  - written between 1647 and 1691, they provide a vivid record of observation and experimentation by one of founding fathers of modern science

Hooke Folio Online offers records of Robert Hooke's secretaryship of the Royal Society of London (1661-1691).

Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier-- Around 1600, these two medical practitioners produced one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. "Medical" here is often referred to as "astrology" and involves both "divination" and "angelic consultation."

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665- ).

  • After 1887 this was split into two series, physical sciences ("A") and life sciences ("B")

EEBO (Early English Books Online) (HarvardLogin)

  • Includes early English translations of 16th and 17th century scientific texts 
  • almost all the published scientific books and pamphlets of the major English scholars- Hooke, Boyle, Bacon, Cavendish, Newton etc etc. 
    Full text searchable

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) (Harvard Login)

  • Includes early English translations of 18th century scientific texts
  • almost all the published scientific books and pamphlets of the major English scholars
  • Full text searchable

Fuller descriptions of EEBO and ECCO.

United States

Early American Imprints, Series 1 (1639-1800) (Harvard Login) and Early American Imprints, Series 2 (1801-1819) (Harvard Login) are based on the microform collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides issued in America recorded in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger P. Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography, and in American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801-1819 by Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker.

Sabin Americana Digital Archive 1500-1926 (Harvard Login) searchable full text of European writings on America. Resource Description | On Joseph Sabin.