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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 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

Sciences of the earth : an encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena by Gregory A. Good (Editor); Marc Rothenberg (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998

Bibliographies

The earth sciences : an annotated bibliography by Roy Porter
Publication Date: 1983
The history of geophysics and meteorology : an annotated bibliography by Stephen G. Brush
Publication Date: 1985

Geological Sciences

Earth's deep history : how it was discovered and why it matters by Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publication Date: 2014
From mineralogy to geology : the foundations of a science, 1650-1830 by Rachel Laudan
Publication Date: 1987
Language and earth : effective affinities between the emerging sciences of linguistics and geology
Publication Date: 1992
The revolution in geology from the Renaissance to the enlightenment by Gary D Rosenberg
Publication Date: 2009
Includes several chapters on Niels Stenson (Steno)
Sciences of the earth : studies in the history of mineralogy and geology by D. R. Oldroyd
Publication Date: 1998
Watching Vesuvius : a history of science and culture in early modern Italy by Sean Cocco
Publication Date: 2012

Meteorology - Antiquity through 18th C

Ancient Meteorology by Liba Chaia Taub
Publication Date: 2003
British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment by Jan Golinski
Publication Date: 2007
A handbook of Renaissance meteorology : with particular reference to Elizabethan and Jacobean literature by S. K. Heninger Jr.
Publication Date: 2011
Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes by Craig Martin
Publication Date: 2011

Meteorology - 19th & 20th Centuries

Appropriating the weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology by Robert Marc Friedman
Publication Date: 1993
Atmospheric science at NASA : a history by Erik M. Conway
Publication Date: 2008

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