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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

State of the Field

The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences by Peter J. Bowler (Editor); John V. Pickstone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Available as an eBook
Also available in print in the History of Science Collections and Bizzell Library

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Naturally speaking a dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology by Carl C. Gaither; Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
Publication Date: 2001

Bibliographies

The history of biology : a selected, annotated bibliography by Judith A. Overmier
Publication Date: 1989

Overviews & Introductory Works

Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson by Paul Lawrence Farber
Publication Date: 2000
Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation by William L. Coleman
Publication Date: 1971
1977 reprint and 1971 edition available
Spanish edition also available
Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present by Diane B. Paul
Publication Date: 1995

Select Studies

Early Modern Era

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science by Ofer Gal (Editor); Charles T. Wolfe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy by Ohad Nachtomy (Editor); Justin E. H. Smith (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014

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