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If people look back on scientific and technological development, it is easy to forget the controversies that enveloped each major advance; they simply view progress as a steady growth in human knowledge. Presently, passions are running high in Germany, France, and Australia. The UK's Royal Society launched an online, interactive timeline that runs from the 17th century to the present. Meanwhile in the UK, The British Library (BL) continues to build its own Digital Library System. In other news concerning the BL announced in December, the BL and the BBC will work together to develop new ways of integrating access to the BL collection and BBC TV and radio content to benefit researchers and the public. In a move more reminiscent of activities in China, the Australian government has caused a stir by proposing to filter sites on the Internet.
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Tracing 350 Years of Discovery
If we look back on scientific and technological development, it is easy to forget the controversies that enveloped each major advance; we simply view progress as a steady growth in human knowledge.
But the discoveries and technologies so neatly summarized in the new Royal Society timeline were just as often debated by competing scientists or subject to national rivalries as are todays developments. Presently, passions are running high in Germany, France, and Australia. In German...See the full content of this document
