History of Science

See also: the Scientific Revolution; Sociology of Science

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

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

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History of Science