Background to MendelWeb

• The syllabus for "Theory and Practice of Science," the Columbia College course that inspired MendelWeb. A chapter on Measurement, from the textbook by Goldstein, Gross, Pollack, and Blumberg, is also available here.
• MendelWeb: An electronic science/math/history resource for the WWW (from the Proceedings the 2nd International World Wide Web Conference, in 1994)
• Ex Libris an essay that appeared in the September/October 1995 issue of The Sciences)

Mendel's Paper of 1865

• Table of Contents for Mendel's Paper (Links to the separate sections of Mendel's paper in German and in English.
• Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden (Mendel's original paper in html)
• Experiments in Plant Hybridization (a modified version of the "Bateson" translation, in html)
• Experiments in Plant Hybridization (an html version as above, with links to the glossary)
• The MendelWeb Archive (from here you can download both the German and English texts of Mendel's paper, in a variety of formats)

The Reader's Mendel

• The MendelWeb Collaborative Hypertext Homepage (the homepage for the German and English sections of Mendel's paper to which you can contribute annotations, and read annotations by other MendelWeb readers)

Essays and Commentary

• "Mendel, Mendelism and Genetics", by Robert C. Olby, Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. This essay appears exclusively at MendelWeb.
• "Heredity Before Mendel", by Vítezslav Orel. This essay is the second chapter of Orel's 1996 biography, Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist, published by and available from Oxford University Press.
• "In the Footsteps of Mendel", by Margaret Peaslee, Professor of Biology and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville. It appears exclusively at MendelWeb, and includes a number of images from the author's recent travels to Brno, in the Czech Republic.
• "What Did Gregor Mendel Think He Discovered?", by by Daniel L. Hartl and Vítezslav Orel. This paper first appeared in Genetics 131: 245-253 (1992)
• "The Nine Lives of Gregor Mendel", by Jan Sapp. This article first appeared in Experimental Inquiries, edited by H. E. Le Grand (Kluwer, 1990), pp.137-166.
• "Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919", by Diane B. Paul and Barbara A. Kimmelman. This article first appeared in The American Development of Biology, edited by Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Benson and Jane Maienschein, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), pp. 281-310.

Secondary Sources for Mendel's Paper

• The MendelWeb Glossary (a glossary of terms used in Mendel's paper and in various parts of MendelWeb)
• MendelWeb Notes (these include notes for each section of the paper, along with section summaries)
• Questions for Discussion (discussion questions for each section of Mendel's paper)
• MendelWeb Homework Sets (homework sets for each section of Mendel's paper)

Additional Mendel Reference Material

• The Structure of a Flower
• Three Images of Mendel
• A MendelWeb Timeline (a listing of some of the events that occurred during Mendel's lifetime [1822-1884], linked to Web resources that elaborate or are devoted to these events)
• The MendelWeb Bibliography
• Recent Journal Articles about Mendel and His Work This is a selection of articles published between 1965 and today.

MendelWeb Tools

• The Statistics Calculation Page This interactive form allows you to compute means, medians, and modes on your own sets of numerical data.
• The MendelWeb Moo Page This page contains information about, and links to, the Mendelroom: a MOO environment that allows you to interact with other MendelWeb users.
• The MendelWeb Reference Page. This page contains links to dictionaries, scientific and general reference materials, as well as to World Wide Web search engines.
• The MendelWeb Data Page For now this page is just a call for participation; I am looking for people to grow some peas.
• Frequently Asked Questions at MendelWeb.
• The MendelWeb Homepage
• Blumberg's Homepage

Acknowledgments and Thanks