Early English Books Online

Usually the Library boasts of the up-to-dateness of its electronic resources that allow you to see scientific articles months or even years before they appear in print.  So what are we doing telling you about  a resource like Early English Books Online that contains nothing published after 1700? Surely that's the province of the humanities!

Maybe so, but EEBO contains the original editions of some of the most important scientific works ever published  - Newton's Principia Mathematica, Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist and William Gilbert's De Magnete.  Any scientist will appreciate the importance of being able to examine the original data in any research and this represents a huge resource that would have been quite impossible to assemble before the internet era.  Those with an interest in the heritage of their discipline will find a great deal here to interest them.