Classic Great Links
Students changed the name from Galileo to Feynman on the central figure when Richard Feynman won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics
Italy and Europe
EMIS - The European Mathematical Information Service
http://www.emis.de/
Institute and Museum of the History of Science: Florence, Italy, now named the Museo Galileo. The Museo Galileo is a short walk from the Arno, Ponte Vecchio, Uffizi and the Duomo seen here.
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/
Collections and Encyclopedia
Famous Curves Index for the History of Mathematics
University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Curves/Curves.html
Mathematical Stamps
< http://web.olivet.edu/~hathaway/mathstamps.html >
< http://jeff560.tripod.com/stamps.html >
< http://mathstamps.org/October%202011.pdf >
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/savants.html
Names of 72 scientists and mathematicians listed on the four facades of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
http://homepages.bw.edu/~dcalvis/history.html
David Calvis of Baldwin-Wallace College, near Cleveland, Ohio offers a collection of History of Mathematics Web Sites.
http://math.hws.edu/javamath/config_applets/index.html
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html
Clark University
http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
Harvey Mudd College
A wonderful collection from Greece.
< http://www.stefanides.gr >
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~carl/ma330/html/curves1.html
University of Kentucky
Resources from Computing Technology for Math Excellence.
< http://www.ct4me.net/math_resources.htm >
Normals of Curves and Circles
< http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/Texts.Folder/Envel/envelopes.html >
People: Individual Men and Women
Agnesi http://witchofagnesi.org
Archimedes http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
Descartes http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/descartes.html (The literature on Descartes is immense. This is one of the better biographies from a philosophy department.)
Hippias http://www.geom.umn.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/quadratrix.html (Geometer's Sketchpad) http://chronomath.irem.univ-mrs.fr/chronomath/Hippias.html (French site)