The world’s oldest scientific society turns 350 next year. Britain’s Royal Society is celebrating by making publicly available some of the key papers from its archive on a new Trailblazing website.

These range from Robert Hooke’s rather disturbing experiment with the lungs of a live dog in 1667 to recent papers on geoengineering to prevent climate change. Between times you can explore the atomic structure of insulin, Geiger and Marsden’s discovery of the reflection of alpha-particles from thin foil, and the first evidence that baby cuckoos will eject the natural inhabitants of nests they hatch in.

“The scientific papers on Trailblazing represent a ceaseless quest by scientists over the centuries, many of them Fellows of the Royal Society, to test and build on our knowledge of humankind and the universe,” says Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society (press release). “Individually they represent those thrilling moments when science allows us to understand better and to see further.”

Don’t start looking if you’re short of time though, the website is a timesink.