Selected Articles in Scientific Revolution
Selected Articles in Scientific Revolution
Selected Articles in Scientific Revolution
General Reference
Edwards, Paul, Editor-in-Chief. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8 vols., New
York and London: Macmillan and The Free Press, 1967. Authoritative articles on
major concepts in philosophy, arranged alphabetically.
Whitrow, Martha, ed. The Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1913-65, 3 vols., London:
Mansell, 1971-76. The Isis Cumulative Bibliography, 1966-1975, 1 vol., London:
Mansell, 1980, and others to follow. Comprehensive listing of scholarly books and
articles in the history of science; arranged by person, institution, and subject. The
best single starting place.
Wiener, Phillip, ed. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 4 vols. and index, New
York: Charles Scribner, 1973-74. Excellent accounts of major ideas in the Western
tradition.
Cohen, I. Bernard. The Birth of a New Physics, Revised and updated, New York,
1985.
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Dijksterhuis, E.J. The Mechanization of the World Picture, Oxford, 1961.
-----. The Scientific Revolution1500-1800, 2nd ed., London, 1962; rev. reprint,
1984.
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific
Revolution, San Francisco, 1980.
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Needham, Joseph. Scienceand Civilization inChina, 7 vols. to date, Cambridge,
1954- .
Taton, René, ed. AGeneral History oftheSciences, 4 vols, English trans., London,
1963-66.
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Berry, Arthur. A ShortHistory of Astronomy, London, 1898.
Easlea, Brian. Witch-hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy, Brighton, Sussex,
1980.
Gillispie, Charles. Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime,
Princeton, 1980.
Neugebauer, Otto. The ExactSciences inAntiquity, 2nd. edn., Providence, RI, 1957.
Shapin, Stephen, and Simon Shaffer. The Leviathan and the Air Pump, Cambridge,
1989.
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Shea, William R. The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of
René Descartes. Canton, MA, 1991.
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
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Leicester, H.M. and H.S. Klickstein, eds. A Source BookinChemistry,1400-1900,
Cambridge, MA, 1963.
Toulmin, Steven and June Goodfield. The Architecture ofMatter, New York, 1962
Mather, K.F. and S.L. Mason. ASource Book inGeology, New York, 1939.
Toulmin, Steven and June Goodfield. The Discovery ofTime, London, 1965.
Zittel, K.A. von. Historyof Geology andPaleontology, trans. M.M. Ogilvie Gordon,
London, 1901.
Mathematics
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-----. A History ofMathematics New York 1968.
Clendening, L., ed. SourceBook of MedicalHistory, New York, 1942; reprint, 1960.
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Hunter, R. and I. Macalpine, eds. Three Hundred YearsofPsychiatry1535-1860,
London, 1 963.
Brush, Stephen G. "Should the History of Science be Rated X?", Science, 183
(1974):1 164-72.
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-----. Problems ofEmpiricism, Cambridge, 1981.
Lilley, S., ed. "Essays on the Social History of Science", Centaurus, 3, Nos. 1 and
2, 1953.
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Popper, Karl R. Conjecturesand Refutations, 3rd edn., London, 1969.
Aiton, E.J. The VortexTheory of PlanetaryMotions, London and New York, 1972.
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Hesse, Mary B. Forces andFields: A StudyofActionat a Distancein theHistoryof
Physics, London, 1961.
Pedersen, Olaf, and M. Pihl. EarlyPhysics andAstronomy, London and New York,
1974.
Shapley, H., and H.E. Howarth, eds. A Source BookofAstronomy, New York, 1929.
Westfall, Richard S. Forcein Newton's Physics, London and New York, 1971.
Nicolas Copernicus
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-----. De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium, in Great Books of the Western World,
vol. XVI, Chicago, 1952.
Tycho Brahe
Brahe, Tycho. Tychonis Brahe Dani Opera Omnia, J.L.E. Dreyer, ed., 15 vols.,
Copenhagen, 1913-1929.
-----. De Nova etnullius aevi memoria prius visa stella, Copenhagen, 1573, facs.
ed., 1901.
Galileo Galilei
Galilei, Galileo. Le operedi Galileo Galilei, Antonio Favaro, ed., 20 vols., Florence,
1890-1909, repr. with additions, Florence, 1929-1939; 1965.
English Translations
-----. Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Giorgio de Santillana, ed., Chicago,
-----. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake, ed. and
trans., Berkeley, 1953, rev. 1967.
-----. [Discourse on the] Two New Sciences, Stillman Drake, ed., intro., and trans.,
Madison, 1974.
-----. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, Stillman Drake, ed. and trans., New
York, 1957.
-----. Galileo on Motion and on Mechanics [De Motu], I. Drabkin and Stillman
Drake, ed. and trans., Madison, 1960.
-----. The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 (Discorso sulle comete and Il
saggiatore), S. Drake and C.D. O'Malley, ed. and trans., Philadelphia, 1960.
-----. Galileo on Bodies in Water [Discorso], Stillman Drake, ed., Urbana, IL, 1960.
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-----. Galileo andthe Scientific Revolution [La bilancetta], L. Fermi and G.
Bernadini, trans., C.S. Smith, New York, 1961.
-----. Sidereus nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger, Galileo Galilei, trans with
introduction, conclusion, and notes by Albert Van Helden, Chicago, 1989.
Johannes Kepler
Kepler, Johannes. Joannis Kepleri astronomi opera omnia, Christian Frisch, ed., 8
vols., Frankfurt-Erlangen, 1858-1871; repr. 1971- .
-----. Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke, Walther von Dych, Max Caspar, Franz
Hammer, et al., Munich, 1937- .
-----. Astronomia nova, Harmonice mundi, Astronomia pars optica, facs., Brussels,
1968.
English Translations:
-----. Harmonies of the World, bk. V, in Great Books of the Western World, XVI,
Chicago, 1952.
-----. Kepler's Dream [Somnium], John Lear, ed., P. Frueh, trans., Berkeley, 1965.
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-----. Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger, Edward Rosen,
trans., New York, 1965.
-----. The Six-Cornered Snow Flake, Colin Hardie, trans., Oxford, 1966.
René Descartes
-----. Correspondance. Charles Adam and Gerard Milhaud, eds., Paris, 1936-63.
English Translations:
-----. The Geometry of René Descartes, [La Geometrie], trans. French and Latin,
David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham, La Salle, IL, 1952.
-----. The Scientific Work of RenéDescartes, J.F. Scott, ed., London, 1952.
-----. Principles of Philosophy, Valentine R. Miller and Reese P. Miller, trans. and
ed., Dordrecht, 1983.
-----. Treatise of Man: René Descartes, [l'Homme], French text with trans and
commentary by Thomas Steele Hall, Cambridge, MA, 1972.
Isaac Newton
Wallace, Peter and Ruth Wallace. Newton and Newtoniana, 1672-1975, Folkestone,
England, 1977.
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Newton, Isaac. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, 7 vols., H.W. Turnbull, J.F.
Scott, and A.R. Hall, and Laura Tilling, Cambridge, 1959-1977.
-----. The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, 8 vols., Derek T. Whiteside, ed.,
1967-1981.
-----. Isaac Newton's Papers & Letters on Natural Philosophy, T.S. Kuhn and I.B.
Cohen, ed., Cambridge, MA, 1958.
-----. Opticks, reprint with analytical table of contents by Duane H.D. Roller, New
York, 1952.
-----. Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings, H.S. Thayer,
New York, 1953.
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