British Society for the History of Science Translations
The British Society for the History of Science is delighted to announce
the publication online of a new translation with commentary of Gregor
Mendel's landmark 1866 paper "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" -- the first
in a new, freely accessible BSHS Translations series, seeking to make
historically important or neglected writings from the scientific past
more widely available.
This new series makes use of an innovative publishing format that allows
users to move easily between a scan of the original document, a
transcription in the original language, the English-language
translation, and an almost sentence-by-sentence set of scholarly
annotations, offering generous discussions of the large range of
interpretative questions that the text raises. An introductory essay
and a comprehensive bibliography of associated scholarship are also
provided.
The new translation and commentary are the work of Dr Staffan
Mueller-Wille (Exeter) and Dr Kersten Hall (Leeds), in collaboration
with Michel Durinx from Centimedia. It is a pleasure to make their
achievement available to all.