History of Science

20 Aug 2007 21:31

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See also: the Scientific Revolution; Sociology of Science

Recommended:
• Margaret Alic, Hypatia's Heritage
• J. L. Berggren, Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
• Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
• Isis
• George Gheverghese Joseph, The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics
• Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China
• George Sarton, The Study of the History of Science
• Charles Singer, From Magic to Science: Essays in the Scientific Twilight
• Stephen Toulmin, Human Understanding

To read:
• Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
• Anthony Aveni, Empires of Time
• Margaret Baron, The Origin of the Infinitessimal Calculus
• Carl Boyer, The History of Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
• C. M. Brown, Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic [Blurb]
• Jed Z. Buchwald, "Discrepant Measurements and Experimental Knolwedge in the Early Modern Era", Archive for History of Exact Sciences 60 (2006): 565--649
• Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500--1676 [Blurb]
• John L. Cisne, "How Science Survived: Medieval Manuscripts' 'Demography' and Classical Texts' Extinction", Science 307 (2005): 1305--1307
• Marshall Clagett
  • Greek Science in Antiquity
  • Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages
• Michael J. Crowe, The Extraterrestial Life Debate 1750--1900. The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell
• Peter Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World [Blurb]
• Peter Dear (ed.), The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies
• Ute Deichmann, Biologists Under Hitler
• Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution
• Benjamin Farrington
  • Greek Science
  • Science and Politics in the Ancient World
• Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron and Robin E. Rider (eds.), The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century [online]
• Charles Coulston Gillispie
  • The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749--1827: A Life in Exact Science
  • Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime
  • Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years [Review in American Scientist; blurb, with link to introduction]
• G. J. Goodfield, The Growth of Scientific Physiology
• Loren R. Graham, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union
• Edward Grant, Planets, Stars and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200--1687
• J. L. Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Sciences around 1800
• Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra (eds.), The Enterprise of Science in Islam
• Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists [Blurb]
• Toby Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West [Blurb]
• Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire
• Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrates
• John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe [Blurb]
• Lancaster, Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences: A Historical Essay
• G. E. R. Lloyd
  • Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
  • The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science [online]
• Pamela Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
• J. Mann, Murder, Magic and Medicine
• Majno, Healing Hand: Man + Wound in the Ancient World
• O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
• Giuliano Pancaldi, Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment [Blurb]
• M. Pera, The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity
• Helena M. Pycior, Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am (eds.), Creative Couples in the Sciences
• Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson, Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities
• Harry Robin, The Scientific Image: From Cave to Computer
• George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance [blurb]
• R. A. Skelton, Thomas Marston and George D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
• Stafford, Artful Science
• Dick Teresi, Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science From the Babylonians to the Maya [Harsh review by Anthony Grafton]
• Mark Walker (ed.), Science and Ideology: A Comparative History
• Lynn White, Jr., Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered
• H. Woolf, The Transit of Venus: A Study of Eighteenth Century Science
• Yoshikawa and Kauffman (eds.), Science Has no National Borders