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Architecture - Aesthetics Fractals Measurement in Astronomy Spherical Geometry (Non-Euclidean Geometry)
Architecture - Engineering General Reference Sites  
Online encyclopedias and other subscription databases 

Navigation on the Sea Tessellations

 

Biography

 

Great Circle Routes
Orienteering  
Computer Graphics The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
Perspective Drawing  
Conic Sections Latitude and Longitude
Pythagorean Theorem

 

 
Architecture - Aesthetics
Ecocity Archtiects: The Aesthetics of Ecological Architecture
ArchiTeacher: Architecture and Aesthetics 
Aesthetics of Architecture and Urban Form
in Islamic Cairo
Exploring the Edge: Jordanian Experiments in Designing for the Built Environment
19th & 20th Century Architecture and Design: 
The Aesthetic Movement

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Architecture - Engineering
Drexel University: Powerpoint - History of Western Architectural Engineering
GreatBuildings.com
Dartmouth University: Geometry in Art and Architecture
PBS: Building Big
Buzzle.com: Architecture and Architectural Engineering
From Platonic Volumes to Lobel Frame: The Solution to a 2000 Year Old Problem
The Professional Journal of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
St. Andrews University- Scotland: Mathematics and Architecture
Think Quest: Architecture Through the Ages
The Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office - Kyoto:  History of Western Architecture

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Biography
University of St. Andrews: Scotland: Mathematics Biographies
University of St. Andrews: Scotland: Female Mathematicians
A Short History of Geometry: Biographies
Euclid of Alexandria
American National Biography Database  
Not available off-campus.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Archimedes of Syracuse

Leonardo da Vinci

Pythagoras
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Benoit Mandelbrot

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Computer Graphics
Cornell University:  What is Computer Graphics?
Prize Winning Virtual Cell Website
The Office of the Future Project at the University of North Carolina
UC Davis: On-Line Computer Graphics Notes

 

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Conic Sections
MathWorld: Conic Section
The Krell Institute: An Introduction To Conic Sections
University of Georgia: Instructional Unit on Conic Sections
ExploreMath.com: Multimedia Activities with Conic Sections

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Fractals
Rice University: Fractals Lesson
Sprott's Fractal Gallery
U. Mass: Exploring Fractals: 
Fractals: New Ways of Looking at Cities
U. Tennessee: Math Archives: Fractals
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General Reference Sites
EBSCOhost
A magazine index with full text articles 
for over 700 journals.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 
Online
     
Includes the Grolier Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Americana, Lands and Peoples, The New Book of Knowledge, and The New Book of Popular Science.
See the librarian for a list of passwords for 
off-campus access to ASIJ databases
Off Campus Access to 
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 
WEB FEET
Vetted Websites for research projects. 

 

Great Circle Routes
Math Forum: Rhumb Lines and Great Circle Routes
Hong Kong Government: Great Circle Sailing
Time and motion
The Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Resource Library
Great Circle Mapper
Great Circle Mapper FAQ
U. Toronto: Schmidt-Koenig Great Circle Hypothesis: Butterflies
Science Watch: A Circle is the Shortest Straight Line for Migrating Birds

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The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

The Great Trigonometrical 
Survey of India
GIS Development
Sir George Everest and Survey of India
Col. William Lambton: A Saga of Courage

Mapping India under the Raj

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Latitude and Longitude
Nasa's From Stargazers to Starships:  Latitude and Longitude
National Maritime Museum: John Harrison and the Longitude problem
PBS: Lost at Sea: The Search For Longitude
Rice University's Latitude Site 

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Measurement in Astronomy
Nasa's From Stargazer's to Starships: How Orbital Motion is Calculated
Nasa's From Stargazer to Starships: Orbits in Space
Georgia State U: Distance Measurement in Astronomy
University of Virginia: How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars
 

 

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Navigation on the Sea
Nasa's From Stargazers to Starships: Navigation    
I must go down to the sea again
To the lonely sea and sky
And all I ask is a tall ship
And a star to steer her by    Sea Fever by John Masefield
Rice University's Coastal Navigation
Marine Navigation Calculator

A Short Guide to Celestial Navigation

 

 

 

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Orienteering
International Orienteering Federation
Williams College: What is Orienteering?
The US Orienteering Federation
British Orienteering Federation

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Perspective Drawing
Drexel University: MathForum.Org
Drawing in One Point Perspective
University of Utah: The Geometry of Perspective Drawing on the Computer
Linear Perspective Drawing
Albrecht Dürer

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Pythagorean Theorem
Nasa's From Stargazers to Starships: The Theorem of Pythagoras
US Naval Academy: Animated Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Arcytech: The Pythagorean Theorem: Lesson
University of British Columbia: An Interactive Proof of Pythagoras' theorem
  a2 + b2=c2
 

 

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Spherical Geometry (Non-Euclidean Geometry)

Rice University: The Geometry of the Sphere
University of Illinois: Spherical Geometry Demo
University of Illinois: Egg Math: What is different about Geometry on a Sphere?
MathWorld: Spherical Geometry

 

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Tessellations
MathForum: Tessellation Tutorials
Clark University: Hyperbolic Tessellations
M.C. Escher: Artist or Mathematician?
M.C. Escher: the Official Website
BoxerMath: The Tessellation Tool
Tilings From Historical Sources
Florida State University: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Tesselations