Box 1. Best of the rest
From the following article:
Henry Nicholls
Nature 443, 746-747(19 October 2006)
doi:10.1038/443746a
In addition to the online archives for big hitters such as Darwin, Einstein and Newton, there are several other projects intent on revealing the writings of famous scientists.
The Robert Boyle Project (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle) hosts about a fifth of Boyle's writings, while his 'work diaries' with annotated transcriptions benefit from virtual page-turning wizardry at http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/wd.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's archive (http://www.lamarck.cnrs.fr) contains digital photographs of the great biologist's 19,000-strong herbarium collection as well as scanned-in pages from his manuscripts and transcriptions of much of his published work.
The Panopticon Lavoisier (http://moro.imss.fi.it/lavoisier) presents much of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's published and unpublished chemical work, hundreds of photographs of his laboratory instruments and mineral collection, and a catalogue of his own library.
The Thomas A. Edison Papers Project (http://edison.rutgers.edu) holds scans of 180,000 digital images from the 5 million pages contained in the Edison archive.
The collection of Eva Helen and Linus Pauling papers (http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/index.html) contains some 500,000 items, of which around 100,000 have been digitized. Not all of these are available online.
The US National Library of Medicine (http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov) has a repository for a selection of works from twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health, including Francis Crick, Oswald Avery, Joshua Lederberg and Barbara McClintock.
