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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Guide to Secondary Sources (by Topic) in the history of science, technology & medicine

State of the Field

The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy by C. B. Schmitt (Editor); Quentin Skinner (Editor); Eckhard Kessler (Editor); Jill Kraye (Editor)
Publication Date: 1988
Available online and in print

See "Biobibliographies" section for Renaissance authors and their works
Early Modern Science by Lorraine Daston (Editor); Katharine Park (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Available as an eBook
Also available in print in the History of Science Collections and Bizzell library
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution by David C. Lindberg (Editor); Robert S. Westman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521348041
Publication Date: 1990-07-27
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution by Margaret J. Osler (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521667906
Publication Date: 2000-03-13

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution by Wilbur Applebaum (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000

Select Studies

Archives of the Scientific Revolution by Michael Hunter (Editor, Introduction by)
Publication Date: 1998
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah E. Harkness
Publication Date: 2007
2008 Pfizer Award
Making knowledge in early modern Europe : practices, objects, and texts, 1400-1800 by Pamela H. Smith (Editor); Benjamin Schmidt (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Merchants and Marvels by Pamela Smith (Editor); Paula Findlen (Editor)
Publication Date: 2001
New Worlds, Ancient Texts by Anthony Grafton; April Shelford (As told to); Nancy G. Siraisi (As told to)
Publication Date: 1995
Renaissance and revolution : humanists, scholars, craftsmen, and natural philosophers in early modern Europe by J. V. Field (Editor); Frank A. James (Editor); A. Rupert Hall (Afterword by)
Publication Date: 1997
Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science by Peter Barker (Editor); Roger Ariew (Editor)
Publication Date: 1991
Science, culture, and popular belief in Renaissance Europe by Stephen Pumfrey; Paolo L. Rossi; Maurice Slawinski
Publication Date: 1994, c1991
The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution by Gideon Freudenthal (Editor); Peter McLaughlin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009

Select Studies: Science & the Early Modern World

Experiencing nature : the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution by Antonio Barrera-Osorio
Publication Date: 2010
Nature, empire, and nation : explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publication Date: 2006
On their own terms : science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman
Publication Date: 2005
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800 by Daniela Bleichmar (Editor); Paula De Vos (Editor); Kristin Huffine (Editor); Kevin Sheehan (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008

Overviews & Introductory Works

Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution by Marcelo Dascal (Editor); Victor D. Boantza (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
Ingenious pursuits: building the scientific revolution by Lisa Jardine
Publication Date: 1999
Man and Nature in the Renaissance by Allen George Debus
Publication Date: 1978
Reconfiguring the world : nature, God, and human understanding from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe by Margaret J. Osler
Publication Date: 2010
Revolutionizing the Sciences - European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear
Publication Date: 2009 (2nd Edition)
1st Edition also available

First edition (2001) awarded 2002 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize (History of Science Society)
The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin
Publication Date: 1998
1999 Dingle Prize Winner (British Society for the History of Science)
The Scientific Revolution by James R. Jacob; Margaret C. Jacob (Contribution by); Spencer Weart (Contribution by); Hal Cooke (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 1998
Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of Modern Science by Wilbur Applebaum
Publication Date: 2005
The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science by John Henry
Publication Date: 2008

Secondary Source Readers

The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe by Peter Dear (Editor)
Publication Date: 1996
Oster, Malcolm

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