Interesting links

History of Mathematics and Science: Colleagues and Friends

• Karen Parshall
• Henk Bos
• Mohammad Bagheri
• Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
• David King
• Len Berggren
• Rob van Gent
• Albrecht Heeffer
• the late Prof. Boris Rosenfeld     his translation of the Conics of Apollonius
• the late H.L.L. Busard: Publications
• the late Paul Bockstaele (1920-2009): publications
• Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
• http://www.wilbourhall.org: website in memory of the History of Mathematics Department, Brown University (where I worked from 1983 to 1985).

• GMFW (History of Mathematics, Dutch)
• GeWiNa (History of Science Society, Dutch)
• Historische Kring Reken- en Wiskundeonderwijs (Dutch)
• Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen [Biographical Dictionary of Dutch Mathematicians; in Dutch]
• Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Archief

• Rekenlinialen (slide rules)
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
• Mesopotamian mathematics
• De Hollandse Cirkel [Dutch association for the history of geodesy]
• Henk Hietbrink (mathematical instruments with animations)
• University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection [Many digital versions of history of mathematics books from the 19th and 20th c.]
• Cornell digital library: Historical Mathematics Monographs
• Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
• Biographies of medieval Islamic astronomers (from the Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers) New York 2007.

Islamic science links

• Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies
• Institut for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science (Frankfurt)
• David King's Catalogue of Medieval Astronomical Instruments until ca. 1500
• David King's bibliography on Islamic astronomy in the ninth and tenth centuries AD
• Benno van Dalen
• Oriental Collections at the Library of the University of Leiden (Dutch)
• Muqarnas (an aspect of Islamic architecture and mathematics)
• Muqarnas
• Newsletter on History of Mathematics in Africa
• SCIAMVS: a new journal in history of exact sciences before A.D. 1600.
• Waldo Tobler, Qibla Maps
• Bibliography on Islamic Mathematics by Jeff Oaks.
• House of Mathematics (Esfahan, Iran)
• Astronomical Research Center (Qom, Iran)
• Shrine of Shaykh Ni'matullah Wali, Mahan, Iran
• Quatrains of Umar Khayyam (a well-known medieval Islamic mathematician)
• Facsimile of an Arabic manuscript on arithmetic from 1193 AD.
• Klokkenmuseum in Asten (N.Br.) (Dutch)
• Omar Khayyam Genootschap (Dutch)
• Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (Dr. Jamil Ragep)
• Astrolabes in Oxford
• Sundials in Iran

Miscellaneous scientific links

• Jan van de Craats's website
• Ars et Mathesis
• Nexus: Online Journal for Mathematics and Architecture
• Zentralblatt der Mathematik (limited queries possible free of charge)
• Browse the American Mathematical Monthly vols. 1-100 (1894-1993)
• Internet Public Library
• Astrolabe model.
• Astrolabes
• Cardboard astrolabe
• Medieval Dutch astronomy and astrology bibliography (Rob van Gent)
• Akkadian (John Heise)
• History of astrology before 1800 (bibliography by David Juste)
• Online books free of charge
• www.wiskundebijles.net (wiskundebijlessen van Berry van den Heuvel)
• Escher and the Droste Effect
• Eise Eisinga Planetarium (Franeker, Friesland)

• Tibetan government in exile     www.rokpa.nl (Tibetan aid organisation)
• Albemarle
• Discourses of Rumi
• Smalhoorn
• www.koeienkijken.nl
• Onzingeneratoren (met dank aan Steven Wepster)
• Vereniging de Dolderse Torteltuin

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