Web Resources

Bibliographies, Biographies, Vocabularies and Other Databases

All websites include an English-language version except as noted. Other languages are indicated in parentheses.

Académie des Sciences (Paris). "Les membres de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création" (French only)
www.academie-sciences.fr

Académie Française (Paris). "Les Immortels"
www.academie-francaise.fr

Caivano, José Luis. Chronological Bibliography on Color Theory
www.fadu.uba.ar

Calkins, Keith G, Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI). Biographies of Mathematicians
www.andrews.edu

Conservation Bibliography/Réseau d'information sur la conservation (French)
bcin.ca

The Darwin Correspondence, Online Database, Cambridge University.
darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk

Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution. Scientific Identity
www.sil.si.edu

Digital Fire Corporation, (Cornwall, PEI, Canada) "Ceramic Materials.Info"
ceramic-materials.com

Doerner Institute (Munich). Munich Taxae Project (German)
www.doernerinstitut.de

Duke University Library, Dictionary of Art Historians
www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org

Famous Scientists who Contributed to "Electro-Science"
chem.ch.huji.ac.il

The Galileo Project, Rice University (Houston, TX).
galileo.rice.edu

Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). Getty Vocabulary Program
www.getty.edu

Art and Architecture Thesaurus
www.getty.edu

Union List of Artists Names
www.getty.edu

History of Mathematics Archive, St. Andrews Scotland
turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Compendium of Chemical Terminology
www.iupac.org

Mindat.org, Mineral Data database
www.mindat.org

Mineral Information Institute (Golden, CO). Mineral Photographs
www.mii.org

Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). CAMEO (Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online)
www.mfa.org

Pourpre.com. Les Mondes de la Couleur, les Couleurs du Monde (French only)
www.pourpre.com

Chroma, Dictionnaire des Noms de Couleurs (French only)
www.pourpre.com

Royal Society of Arts Achive Database
www.rsa.org.uk

Royal Society of London, Sackler Archive Resource
www.royalsoc.ac.uk

Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm). Linnaean Herbarium
linnaeus.nrm.se

Textile Weaving (S. Bruton, The Alien Travel Guide)
www.alientravelguide.com

US Geological Survey. Minerals Information—Publications and Data Products
minerals.usgs.gov

Color Science

Canon Science Laboratory. "What is Light?
www.canon.com

Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Amsterdam). MolArt: Molecular Aspects Of Ageing In Painted Works Of Art
www.amolf.nl

Histories of Color or Color Science

Boscarol, Mauro. Storia della scienza del colore (Italian only)
www.boscarol.com

Kuehni, Rolf. Chromatikon
www4.ncsu.edu

Giunta, Carmen. Classic Chemistry
web.lemoyne.edu

Virtual Colour Museum. Colour Order Systems in Art and Science (French, German)
www.colorsystem.com

Color Identification and Conversion Tools

Color Index for html
www.vivaworld.com

Dawes, Bill. Munsell Color Conversion Software, The Coloring Pages
www.colorpro.com

Mundie, David A. The NBS/ISCC Color System (1995)
www.anthus.com

Color Cognition

Glicksman, Hal (Cal State, Long Beach). "White is Green"
www.csulb.edu

Kay, Paul (ICSI, Berkeley). Homepage, with links to papers on color cognition
www.icsi.berkeley.edu

Regier, Terry (Chicago). Bibliography of Papers on color (cognitive science)
www.ccp.uchicago.edu

Roberson, Debi. "Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition As Well As Language," Cross-Cultural Research, 39, (2005)
www.essex.ac.uk

Museums and Historic Houses

Corning Museum of Glass (Corning , NY)
cmog.org

A Resource on Glass
cmog.org

Deutsches Museum (Munich). (German, Italian)
www.deutsches-museum.de

Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes de Mulhouse (Mulhouse, Alsace, France). (French)
www.musee-impression.com

L'art d'imprimer les étoffes (French)
www.musee-impression.com

La teinture au XVIIIeme siècle (French)
www.mulhouseum.uha.fr

Musée des Papiers Peintes de Rixheim (Rixheim, Alsace, France). (French)
membres.lycos.fr

Musées de la Ville de Rouen (Rouen, Normandy, France). (French only)
www.rouen-musees.com

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Penna.)
www.philamuseum.org

Wedgwood Museum (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., England)
www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk

"The Portland Vase"
www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk

York Art Gallery (York, England)
www.yorkartgallery.org.uk

Online Collection Databases

The Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, England) Collections
www.bowesmuseum.org.uk

The Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.) "Explore Art"
www.getty.edu

Joconde: Catalogue des Collections des Musees de France. Ministère de la culture, France. (French only)
www.culture.gouv.fr

John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk

Kyoto Costume Institute (Kyoto, Japan) Digtal Archive (Japanese)
www.kci.or.jp

Le Caplain, Eric. " L'Universe Minéral" (French only)
www.chez.com

Manchester Gallery of Costume (Manchester, England). Materials and Making
www.manchestergalleries.org

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Permanent Collection
www.metmuseum.org

Timeline of Art History
www.metmuseum.org

National Gallery (London). Collection Online
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Portrait Gallery (London). "Search the Collections"
www.npg.org.uk

National Gallery (Washington, DC). Search the Collection
www.nga.gov

Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.) Collections
www.pem.org

Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam). Explore the Collection (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
www.rijksmuseum.nl

University of Pennsylvania, SCETI Online: Edgar Fahs Smith Collection
dewey.library.upenn.edu

Victoria and Albert Museum, Access to Images
images.vam.ac.uk

Web Gallery of Art
www.kfki.hu

Wolverhampton Museum of Industry (Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England).
www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk

People and Societies

Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen (Rouen, Normandy, France) (French only)
www.archive.org

Académie des Sciences (Paris). Archives (French only)
www.academie-sciences.fr

Académie royale de Peinture et Sculpture (Paris).
www.culture.gouv.fr

Annuaire des Sociétés Savantes, Dijon Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-lettres de Dijon (Dijon, France). (French only)
www.cths.fr

Archives de l'Ecole des Mines (Paris) (French only)
www.annales.org

Archives Nationales (Paris). Centre Historique des Archives Nationales
www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr

Association Jean Paul Marat (French)
seni.club.fr

"Jean-Paul Marat: His Life"
seni.club.fr

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, "Akademiegeschichte,"
www.bbaw.de

Berlin von A bis Z, "Namen der Straßen und Plätze" (German only)

ttp://www.berlingeschichte.de/Strassen/index.html

Botany.com
www.botany.com

Church of Our Lady, Seaton Delaval, (Seaton, Northumberland, England). "Edward Hussey Delaval"
www.thechurchofourlady.seatondelaval.org.uk

The English Ceramic Circle
www.englishceramiccircle.co.uk

European Network for Chemistry
www.chemsoc.org

Federation of American Scientists. "A Counterintelligence Reader Volume 1, American Revolution to World War II"
www.fas.org

The French Porcelain Society
www.frenchporcelainsociety.com

Fowler, Michael. "Newton's Life"
galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu

Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Florence, Italy) Panopticon Lavoisier
moro.imss.fi.it

Johann Beckmann - Gesellschaft e.V. (German only)
www.johann-beckmann-gesellschaft.de

"Leben" (German only)
www.johann-beckmann-gesellschaft.de

Lichen Biology and the Environment
www.lichen.com

Lichtenberg-Gesellschaft e.V. (German only)
www.lichtenberg-gesellschaft.de

Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson (Tours, France). "Qui était Jacques de Vaucanson?"
www.vaucanson.org

Museum of Jurassic Technology, "The Life and Work of Athansius Kircher, s.j."
www.mjt.org

National Library of the Netherlands, (The Hague, Netherlands). "Exhibitions and Collections" (Dutch)
www.kb.nl

Navigational Aids for the History of Science. "Technology and the Environment"
www.nahste.ac.uk

University of Waterloo Library, Scholarly Societies Project
scholarly-societies.org

Weisstein, Eric. "World of Scientific Biography"
scienceworld.wolfram.com

Seaton Delaval (Northumberland, England). "The Delaval Family"
www.seatondelaval.org.uk

La Société des Amis du Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres (French)
www.amisdesevres.com

Tobias Mayer Museum, (Marbach, Germany) "Kurtzbiographie" (German only)
www.ph-ludwigsburg.de

Cornelis J. Drebbel Institute for Mechatronics, University of Twente (Twente, Netherlands). "Who Was Cornelis J. Drebbel?"
www.drebbel.utwente.nl

Wildlife Club, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). "Wild Plants of Our Campus."
hsb.iitm.ac.in

Single color sites

Chris Cooksey, Ancient Dyes, Natural and Synthetic
www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

Indigo
www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

Tyrian Purple
www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

Lichen Purple
www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

Cudbear
www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk

Kanold, Inge Boesken. La pourpre, couleur venue de la mer (French, German)
www.artemision.free.fr

Le pays de Cocagne, environs de Montolieu village du livre, Magrin, Lecture (French only)
www.montolieu.net

Martin, Patrick. "Les origines de l'art du pastel" (French)
www.patrick-martin.com

Online Exhibitions

James Bell Library, University of Minnesota, "Trade Products in Early Modern History"
www.bell.lib.umn.edu

Botanical Gardens, University of Basel, "Botanicolor: The Ethnobotanic [sic] of Dyes and Colours" (German)
www.leuchtendgruen.net

Dalhousie University Libraries, Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomical Atlas
www.library.dal.ca

Prof. Dr. Arthur Engelbert Fachhochschule Potsdam, "Farben" (German only)
forge.fh-potsdam.de

Gautier d'Agoty, Jacques-Fabien. Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme et de la femme "Dream Anatomy" National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD).
www.nlm.nih.gov

Gibson, Arthur C. "‘Plants and Civilization' website" UCLA Botanical garden
www.botgard.ucla.edu

"The Drug Trade," Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk

National Gallery, Washington, "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"
www.nga.gov

Society of Dyers and Colourists(Bradford, Yorkshire, England). The Colour Museum
www.colour-experience.org

"Turkey Red History"
www.colour-experience.org

18c. Books and Articles

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften "Akademieschriften bis 1900" Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1700 – 1900 (French and German only)
www3.bbaw.de

Blackwell, Elizabeth. Herbarium Blackwellianum (1750-1773) Missouri Botanical Garden Library, St Louis, MO
www.illustratedgarden.org

Castel, Louis-Bertrand. L'Optique des couleurs : fondée sur les simples observations & tournée sur-tout à la pratique de la peinture, de la teinture & des autres arts coloristes. 1740 (French only)
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Diderot et D'Alembert, Receuil des Planches de l'Encyclopédie Arts de la céramique (French only)
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Diderot et D'Alembert, Receuil des Planches de l'Encyclopédie Artisanats au 18ème siècle (French only)
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Diderot et D'Alembert, Receuil des Planches de l'Encyclopédie Arts des textiles (French only)
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Delaval, Edward Hussey."Recherches expérimentales sur la cause des changements de couleur dans les corps opaques naturellement colorés" (French only)
www.bbaw.de

Goethes Farbenlehre (German only)
www.farben-welten.de

Hellot, Jean. L'Art de la teinture des laines et des étoffes de laine en grand et petit teint, avec une instruction sur les déboüillis . . . 1750. (French only)
gallica.bnf.fr

Krünitz , J. G. Oeconomische Encyclopädie Online
www.kruenitz.uni-trier.de

Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888
susi.e-technik.uni-ulm.de:8080

"Newton's Natural Philosophical Texts" The Newton Project Imperial College, (London)
www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk

Orschall, J. C. "Sol Sine Veste" (French only)
alkest.club.fr

Wattelet, Claude-Henri. Dictionnaire des beaux arts (Encyclopédie méthodique) 1788. (French only)
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Vol. 2.
visualiseur.bnf.fr

Zeitschriften der Aufklärung University Bielefeld (Germany). (German only)
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

Articles

Anderson, Petri. "Glass Painting Techniques in an Historical Context" Historic Churches 2000
www.buildingconservation.com

"L'Aventure des ‘Indiennes' en France" Compagnie des Cent Associes (French only)
100associes.free.fr

Burns, D. Thornburn. "The London of Robert Boyle,"
www.bbk.ac.uk

Douma, Michael. "Pigments in Paintings" Pigments through the Ages
webexhibits.org

"Causes of Color" WebExhibits Virtual Museum
webexhibits.org

Cushing, Max Pearson. "Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France"
www.gutenberg.org

Eklund, Jon. "British Eighteenth Century Chemical Terms" Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 33 (Washington, DC, 1975)
dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us

Franssen, Maarten. "The Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel" (1991)
www.tbm.tudelft.nl

Gauvin, Jean-François. "L'Art des expériences: La Physique du Salon de l'abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770)" Musée Stewart au Fort de l'île Sainte-Hélène, (Montréal, Quebec) (French only)
www.stewart-museum.org

Golinski, Jan. "Chemistry" from The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 4, Science in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Roy Porter.  Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.  © Cambridge University Press, 2001.  Reproduced on the website with the permission of Cambridge University Press
www.unh.edu

Laidler, Keith J. and Athel Cornish-Bowden. "Elizabeth Fulhame and the Discovery of Catalysis: 100 Years before Buchner" New Beer in Old Bottles: Edward Buchner and Growth of Biochemical Knowledge ed. A. Cornish-Bowden. (Valencia, Spain, 1997)
bip.cnrs-mrs.fr

Mander, Nicholas. "Varnished Leaves: a biography of the Mander Family of Wolverhampton, 1742-1998"
www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk

Petit, Michel. "La ceramique au XVIIIe siecle: le point sur la faience..." Compagnie des Cent Associes (French only)
100associes.free.fr

Philp, Flavia Perugini. "Coloured Woods on Eighteenth-Century Furniture." In Postprints of the Wood Artifacts Group, American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 1999.
aic.stanford.edu

Platt, G. "What is Amber?"
www.amberparadise.com

Pompas, Renate. "Purple, Kermes and Woad: The Trilogy of Mediterranean Precious Dyeing"
www.texere.u-net.dk

Roberts. Matt T. and Don Etherington. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
palimpsest.stanford.edu

Royal Academy of Arts, "Gainsborough on Contemporary Art Theory"
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Storm, A. "Eighteenth Century Paint Materials And The Painters Craft As Practiced In Louisbourg" 1982 (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Canada) (French)
fortress.uccb.ns.ca

Welsh, Frank S. "Particle Characteristics of Prussian Blue in an Historical Oil Paint." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 27, no. 2 (1988)
aic.stanford.edu

Thompson, Daniel V. The Practice of Tempera Painting (New Haven, CT, 1946)
www.studioproducts.com

Single Images and Image-only Collections

Cuyacama College, Ornamental Horticulture "Cercis Siliquastrum" (Judas Tree)
www.cuyamaca.net

Institut national de recherche pédagogique, Images tirées d'ouvrages de litterature pour la jeunesse--Sciences et techniques
www.inrp.fr

Anonyme. Maître de miniature. p. 064. OP 3167
www.inrp.fr

Anonyme. Maître de miniature. p. 065. OP 3167
www.inrp.fr

Noel Pluche. Spectacle de la nature. p. 538. 1R 34135
www.inrp.fr

Jacob Christophe Le Blon, "Van Dyck Self Portrait" Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Conn.)
www.ibiblio.org

Judas-tree flower
www.the-tree.org.uk

Late Georgian Exeter: William Peckitt's Great West Window at Exeter Cathedral
www.exeter.gov.uk

du Tertre, Jean-Baptiste. Histoire générale des Antillés habitées par les Français, (Paris, 1667) at "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution" Center for History and New Media
chnm.gmu.edu#

Olympus Microscopy Resource Center, Polarized Light Microscopy Digital Image Gallery "Lincoln Sheep Wool"
www.olympusmicro.com

Schreber, Daniel Gottfried. Historische, physische und öconomische Beschreibung des Waidtes (Halle 1752). (German only)
www.archive.org

Sheep's scabius (Jasione montana var. littoralis) BioImages Virtual Field Guide (UK)
www.bioimages.org.uk

Medieval Woad Mill at Cyriaksburg Castle, Erfurt. (German)
www.erfurt-guide.de

"High Renaissance: Raphael" Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
ise.uvic.ca

Walpole Arms, ca 1761–2 Lewis Walpole Collection, Yale University Library (Farmington, CT)
www.library.yale.edu

Chinoiserie Pattern Wallpaper, Reveillon factory (1780s). Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
emu.man.ac.uk

Coursework and curricula

Aronson, M. University of Arizona (Tuscon, AZ) "Materials Science of Art and Archaeological Objects"
www.u.arizona.edu

Art Institute of Chicago: "Art Science & Technology" curriculum
www.artic.edu

Bouvier, Jacques. "Ce Bleu qui fit le Pays de Cocagne: Le Pastel" (French only)
www.ac-toulouse.fr

Miscellaneous Resources

AZoM.com (A to Z of Materials)
www.azom.com

The Pigmentum Project
www.pigmentum.org

Interesting Commercial Sites

Amethyst Galleries
mineral.galleries.com

The Bridesmill Herbal. Bridesmill Studio
www.bridesmill.com

Conchology, Inc. - Official Shell Website (French, German)
www.conchology.be

Cora Ginsburg, LLC "18th Century Textiles,"
www.coraginsburg.com

Färbehof: Pflanzengefärbte Wiegenhimmel, Schal, Pflanzenfarben (German only)
www.wolle-stoffe-seide-pflanzengefaerbt.de

Panteek
www.panteek.com

Patrician Antiques
www.patricianantiques.com

Piccapane, Raymond (Nice, France) "Les décors du mobilier: La laque, Le vernis-Martin, La nielle, La tole peinte" (French only)
www.search-antiques.com

Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen (German)
www.meissen.de

R &F Handmade Paints, Inc. - The R&F OnLine Color Chart
rfpaints.com

Sebino Colore (Italian)
www.sebino.it

URLs are current as of the date of publication, September 2006.

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