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History of Science Primary Sources

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

Overviews

Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals by John Carey
Publication Date: 1997

Episodes & Events

Darwin by Darwin
A Norton Critical Edition: Selected and Edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall
1979 2nd edition
1970 1st edition
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA : Text, Commentary, Reviews, Original Papers by James D. Watson; Gunther S. Stent (Editor)
Publication Date: 1980
A Norton Critical Edition: Text, Commentary, Reviews, Original Papers
The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History by Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Editor)
Publication Date: 1989
The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age
Publication Date: 1991
Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in Debate: Historical Essays and Documents on the 1941 Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg
Publication Date: 2005

Places, Periods & Cultures

English Science, Bacon to Newton by Brian Vickers (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521316835
Publication Date: 1987-05-21
Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook by Georgia L. Irby-Massie; Paul T. Keyser
Publication Date: 2002
The presocratic philosophers : a critical history with a selection of texts by G. S. Kirk; J. E. Raven; M. Schofield
ISBN: 9780521274555
Publication Date: 1963 edition
Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939 by Nathan Reingold (Editor); Ida H. Reingold (Editor)
Publication Date: 1981
Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader by Malcolm Oster (Editor)
ISBN: 9780333970027
Publication Date: 2002
Science in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History by Nathan Reingold
Publication Date: 1981
1964 edition also available
The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages by Richard C. Dales
Publication Date: 1973
The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents by Margaret C. Jacob
Publication Date: 2010
A Source Book in Greek Science by Morris Cohen
Publication Date: 1948
1958 and 1966 editions also available
A Sourcebook in Medieval Science by Edward Grant (Editor)
Woman Defamed and Woman Defended by Alcuin Blamires (Editor); Karen Pratt; C. W. Marx
Publication Date: 1992

Topics & Themes

Darwin to Einstein: Primary Sources on Science and Belief by Noel George Coley
Publication Date: 1980
A Documentary History of Biochemistry, 1770-1940 by Teich and Needham
Publication Date: 1992
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity To 1915 by Michael J. Crowe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Food and drink in antiquity : readings from the Graeco-Roman World : a sourcebook by John F. Donahue
Publication Date: 2015-01-15
Physics and National Socialism by E. Hiebert (Editor); H. Wussing (Editor); A. M. Hentschel (Translator); Klaus Hentschel (Editor)
Publication Date: 1996
U.S. environmentalism since 1945 : a brief history with documents by Steven Stoll
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
U. S. Environmental Policy and Politics: A Documentary History by Kevin Hillstrom; Laurie Hillstrom
Publication Date: 2010

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