Library Guides: HIPS 18504 Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization III: Computation, Culture & Society: Books

Using the Library Catalog

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Electronic Books: 18th-19th Century

HathiTrust Digital Library
The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions (major research institutions and libraries) in digital form. Works from 18th, 19th and 20th century science are fully searchable and full PDFs may be downloaded by UChicago users after logging in with CNetID.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, a microfilm collection of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera by well-known and lesser-known eighteenth-century authors.
ECCO is a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It is is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish..
Early American Imprints: Series I. Evans, 1639-1800
This incomparable digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, Early American Imprints, Series I is based on Charles Evans renowned American Bibliography and Roger Bristols supplement. Including more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages
Early American Imprints: Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Continuation of the preceding resource.
A comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted "American Bibliography, 1801-1819" by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. With more than four million pages from over 36,000 items
Google Books
Excellent resource for discovering contemporary accounts of scientific research and discovery. Public domain works are full viewable, and many titles available as snippets in Google may be available in print in the UChicago Library collections.
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to borrow or buy them.

Rare Book Collections

Many major research libraries have collections of rare books which support scholarship in the history of science. The following are just a couple selected collections.

History of Science Collection at Linda Hall Library
The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution
A collection of rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of science and technology. The library's internet site offers electronic resources on topics, people, and organizations.