Societies

Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften
    http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb13/igaiw/index.html

International Union of History and Philosophy of Science,
Commission on History of Science & Technology in Islamic Civilization
    http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/   (includes online newsletter)

Commission for History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy
    http://chama.fltr.ucl.ac.be/   (includes online newsletter)

International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy
    http://www.sihspai.umd.edu/
    http://www-phil.tamu.edu/Philosophy/sihspai/

Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
    http://www.adelphi.edu/~cshpm/

The British Society for the History of Mathematics
    http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/

International Study Group for the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics
    http://www.hpm-americas.org

Italian Society for the History of Mathematics
    http://www.dm.unito.it/sism/

Ibn Sina Academy
    http://wwwgeocities.com/ibnsinaacademy/

African Mathematical Union
Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa
    http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amuchma_online.html

Grup «Millàs Vallicrosa» d’Història de la Ciència Àrab
    http://www.iecat.net/schct/web%20nova/grups.htm#arab

History of Science Society
   http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/index2.html
HSS databases
   http://www.hssonline.org/teach_res/hst/mf_hst.html

Individuals

Mahdi Abdeljaouad
    http://www.membres.lycos.fr/mahdiabdeljaouad/

Len Berggren
    http://www.math.sfu.ca/~berggren/

Ahmed Djebbar
    http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/calculsavant/Equipe/ahmeddjebbar.html

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
    http://www1.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/~Yvonne.Dold-Samplonius/

Jan Hogendijk
    http://www.math.uu.nl/people/hogend/

David A. King
    http://www.ecademics.org/oasis/king.html

Boris Rosenfeld
    http://www.math.psu.edu/yaskolko/BR/init.html

George Saliba
    http://www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html

Jacques Sesiano
    http://dmawww.epfl.ch/geometrie/members/sesiano.html

Glen Van Brummelen
    http://faculty.bennington.edu/~gvanbrum/

Benno van Dalen
    http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~dalen

History of Mathematics/Science sites

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
    http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/

History of mathematics indexed by mathematician.  In Spanish.
    http://www.divulgamat.net/weborriak/Historia/Indizea.asp

Teaching history of mathematics with original sources
    http://emmy.NMSU.Edu/~history/

Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society
    http://www.aas.org/%7Ehad/had.html

History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America
    http://www.adelphi.edu/bradley/HOMSIGMAA/

Mathematics in Jewish Sources
    http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~tsaban/hebrew.html

Online Manuscripts

Heiberg's Euclid, among many others are online here.
    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

British Library Manuscript Collection:
    http://molcat.bl.uk or http://www.bl.uk

Discussion groups, bulletin boards

Historia Matematica
    The old Historia Matematica is now defunct.  Robert Taylor has revived it under a new name:  Philomathes.  To subscribe, send Bob a note at philologos@mindspring.com.
     Contributions to the old Historia Matematica list are archived at:
http://mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=149.

The MAA's History of Mathematics E-mail List
    http://www.maa.org/features/history_list.html

Math history discussion
    http://mathforum.org/kb/forumindex.jspa

Mersenne, a History of science bulletin board.  You can find the tables of contents of selected journals here.
    http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mersenne.html

Conferences

WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES

Sevilla, Spain, 16-17 jun. 2008

Invited speakers:
Hourya Benis-Sinaceur (IHPST, Paris)
Marcus Giaquinto (Univ. College London)
Kenneth Manders (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Marco Panza (CNRS, Paris)
Jessica Carter (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)

Also speaking: Martin Zerner (CNRS, Paris)
Renaud Chorlay (Univ. Paris 7 – Denis Diderot)
Sonja Brentjes (Univ. Sevilla)
José Ferreirós (Univ. Sevilla)
Mario Santos-Sousa (Univ. Autónoma Madrid)
Davide Crippa (Univ. Paris 7 – Denis Diderot)

Conference Site: Pabellón de México (Vicerrectorado de Postgrado y
Doctorado). Paseo de las Delicias, s/n. Sevill

For further information, please contact José Ferreirós (Departamento
de Filosofía y Lógica, Universidad de Sevilla. Camilo J. Cela, s/n.
41018 Sevilla, Spain), email: josef@us.es


XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Ideas and Instruments in Social Context
26 - 31 July, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/index.htm


Other links

What does an astrolabe made by Regiomontanus have to do with Piero della Francesca's painting "Flagellation of Christ"?
Read about David King's remarkable foray into art history:
    http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb13/ign/Code.htm

Astronomy---basic information
    http://www.earthvisions.net/bcp/

Arabic TEX (for typesetting Arabic script)
    http://leb.net/arabtex/

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