Web Watch

http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm

Orbital and Newtonian mechanics, solar physics, and space flight are the topics covered by David P. Stern in his educational Web site From Stargazers to Starships. Stern, a space physicist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, puts each lesson in its historical context and provides all the necessary mathematical background. The entire site is also available in Spanish.

http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/library_list.html

On behalf of the History of Science Society’s education committee, A. Bowdoin van Riper has compiled Reading the History of Western Science, a list of about 100 books that he believes offer particularly effective introductions to the history and sociology of science.

http://vis.lbl.gov

The goal of the Visualization Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is to help scientists view and better understand complex multidimensional data. Diverse and interesting examples of the group’s work are listed on its Web page under the “Projects” link.

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