History of Science
01 Jan 2010 11:46See also: the Scientific Revolution; Sociology of Science
- Recommended:
- Margaret Alic, Hypatia's Heritage
- J. L. Berggren, Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
- Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
- Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
- Jacob L. Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
- 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
- J. D. Bernal, Science in History
- 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
- Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall, Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience [Blurb]
- Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra (eds.), The Enterprise of Science in Islam
- Thomas Holden, The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant
- 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
- David Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity, 1789--1914
- 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
- Reviel Netz, The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations [blurb]
- O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
- Mary Jo Nye, From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry: Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800--1950 [blurb]
- Giuliano Pancaldi, Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment [Blurb]
- M. Pera, The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity
- Kim Plofker, Mathematics in India [Blurb]
- Derek de Solla Price, Science since Babylon
- 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; author's self-presentation]
- R. A. Skelton, Thomas Marston and George D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
- Stafford, Artful Science
- Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland (eds.), The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War Through the Age of Enlightenment [blurb]
- 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
