Dante recounts a 1666 blood transfusion and entertaining notes on how you answered a Mozart from 8 years to the evidence of his genius were published on Monday in a story line of scientific endeavors.
The website "Trailblazing" (marking the road, with its translation in Spanish) was created by the influential Royal Society scientific academy and includes handwritten documents on some of the most important scientific discoveries of the last three and half centuries.
Studies of Benjamin Franklin on how to trace a kite in a thunderstorm, which date from 1752, was the first time someone suggested that lightning and electricity were not a supernatural force.
And the notes of Edward Stone in 1763 about the success of willow bark to treat fever discovery documents the rise of acetyl salicylic acid and aspirin production, currently one of the most used drugs worldwide.
Trailblazing creators say it is a virtual trip to the rhythm of each "through science, the Royal Society hopes to inspire people to see science as part of life and culture in everyday .
Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society, said the documents showed "an incessant demand of scientists for centuries (...) to try and build our knowledge of mankind and the universe."
"They represent the exciting moment that science allows us to better understand and see beyond," he added.
The documents, taken from the oldest scientific journal in the English speaking world, Philosophical Transactions, also includes documents dating from 1776 on how Captain James Cook saved his sailors from scurvy with pickled cabbage, lemon and malt, well before them to develop ideas on nutrition.
They also include the first work on black holes by Stephen Hawking and the historic work of Isaac Newton in 1672 on the nature of light and color documents in 1940 about the discovery of penicillin.
Daines Barrington, a skeptical scientist who wanted to test the claim that Mozart was a genius when he visited London in 1770 at age 8, said that the boy was so wicked and distracted as any child, but showed an outstanding talent.
"As the score was placed under his desk, he began playing the symphony in a masterful way," he wrote.
And the 1755 edition has a count of the first vaccines, and Hans Sloane wrote that "takes place with a slight incision in the skin of the arm" and introduce "a small amount of matter smallpox mature and appropriate to protect against a subsequent infection.
Sloane goes on to describe how he first tried "six convicted felons" and then "half a dozen children in charitable institutions.
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