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Charlotte Beck
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Woodward Library
2198 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Canada V6T 1Z3
2198 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Canada V6T 1Z3
Phone: 604 822 2884
Reference Help
Chelsea Shriver
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Rare Books and Special Collections
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
604 822-0645
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Key Resources
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Summon searchUBC Library's integrated search tool
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National Library of Medicine History of Medicine DivisionNLM's History of Medicine Division collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to human health and disease.
Background Texts
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by ISBN: 0195112296Publication Date: 2003-03-27Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines (Biology, Alchemy, Behaviorism), historical periods (the Scientific Revolution, World War II, the Cold War), concepts (Hypothesis, Space and Time, Ether), and methodologies and philosophies (Observation and Experiment, Darwinism). -
The Cambridge History of ScienceISBN: 9780521594486Publication Date: 2013-10-07Six Volumes:
Medieval Science
Early Modern Science
Eighteenth-Century Science
Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Modern Life and Earth Sciences
Modern Social Sciences
UBC Sites
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Charles Darwin Letters Online (UBC Library Open Collections)Two collections of letters, written to and by Charles Darwin.