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History of Science Primary Sources

Guide to primary sources in the history of science, technology & medicine

Archives, Libraries & Other Institutions

American Scientific Exploration, 1803-1860: Manuscripts in Four Philadelphia Libraries by William Ragan Stanton
Publication Date: 1991
The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta) by G L Blak
Publication Date: 2007
A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Entomology Library of the Natural History Museum, London
Publication Date: 1996
A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles by A. Z. Iskandar
Publication Date: 1984
Guide to the Archival Collections in the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics
Publication Date: 1994
A Guide to the Genetics Collections of the American Philosophical Society by Bentley Glass
Publication Date: 1988
A Guide to the Official Archives of the Natural History Museum, London by John C. Thackray
Publication Date: 1998
Science and the Changing Environment in India, 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records by Richard Axelby
Publication Date: 2010

Archival Collections - Individual Authors

Listed below you will find guides available at OU relating to scientists' works held at other libraries.

Archives of British Men of Science
Publication Date: 1972
Catalogue of the Manuscript Collections of Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, in Cambridge University Library
Publication Date: 1976
The Letters of Georges Cuvier: A Summary Calendar of Manuscript and Printed Materials Preserved in Europe, the United States of America, and Australasia
Publication Date: 1980
Thomas Henry Huxley: A List of His Scientific Notebooks, Drawings and Other Papers, Preserved in the College Archives
Publication Date: 1968

Places, Periods & Cultures

Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Michael Hunter (Editor, Introduction by)
Publication Date: 1998
European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1776 by John Eliot Alden
Publication Date: 1980-
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900 by David M .Knight
Publication Date: 1972
Science and Technology in Medieval India: A Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian by Abdur Rahman
Publication Date: 1982

Textual Traditions

Geographical Locations

Guide to Sources in Northern California for History of Science and Technology by Robin E. Rider (Compiled by); Henry E. Lowood (Compiled by)
Publication Date: 1985
Natural History Manuscript Resources in the British Isles by Gavin D. R.Bridson
Publication Date: 1980
Railway History: A Guide to Sixty-one Collections in Libraries and Archives in Great Britain by George Ottley
Publication Date: 1973
Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow: A Census of Manuscript Sources (XIVth-XVIth Centuries)
Publication Date: 1984

Individual Authors/Works

An Annotated Census of Copernicus' de Revolutionibus by Owen Gingerich
Publication Date: 2002
The Mediaeval Latin Versions of the Aristotelian Scientific Corpus: With Special Reference to the Biological Works by S. D. Wingate
Publication Date: 1967?
Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr. With a Bibliography of His Works and Census of Known Copies by John F. Fulton
Publication Date: 1954
An annotated bibliography on Ibn Sīnā : first supplement (1990-1994) by Jules L. Janssens
Publication Date: 1991

Books

A Historical Catalogue of Scientists and Scientific Books : from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Mortimer Gascoigne
Publication Date: 1984

Journals

A Historical Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals, 1665-1900: With a Survey of their Development by Robert Mortimer Gascoigne
Publication Date: 1985
A History of Scientific & Technical Periodicals; The Origins and Development of the Scientific and Technical Press, 1665-1790 by David A. Kronick
Publication Date: 1976
Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by David A. Kronick
Publication Date: 1991

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