Math History or Biography Sites

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• MacTutor History of Mathematics University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Trinity College at Dublin - The History of Mathematics
• Institute and Museum of History of Science in Florence Italy
  This museum has a fantastic Galileo exhibit. Pay particular attention to the models of instuments that Galileo used to measure the motions of objects.
  • At The Bottom Of An Ocean Of Air
    Also part of the Florence Museum, this site is a tribute to Evangelista Torricelli, a disciple of Galileo, who proved by experiment that a vacuum could exist and that the atmosphere is responsible for exerting a pressure on everything due to the weight of air. Torricelli used columns of mercury to measure pressure, refer to our prior discussion of the units of blood pressure. Take this short tour that describes Torricelli's experiments.
  • Galileo's Compass
  • Galileo's Telescope
  • Galileo's Microscope