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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 Physical and Mathematical Sciences by Mary Jo Nye (Editor)
Publication Date: 2002
Available as an eBook
Also available in print in the History of Science Collections and Bizzell Library

Bibliographies: Secondary Sources

The history of mathematics from antiquity to the present : a selective bibliography by Joseph Warren Dauben
Publication Date: 1985

Bibliographies: Primary Sources

Bibliography of mathematical works printed in America through 1850 by Louis Charles Karpinski
Publication Date: 1940
Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry, Including the Theory of Parallels, the Foundations of Geometry, and Space of n dimensions by Duncan M'Laren Young Sommerville
Publication Date: 1911
Holdings list of mathematics works from 1467-1699 University of Oklahoma. Libraries. History of Science Collections.
Publication Date: 1992
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554-1700 by Bruce Stanley Burdick
Publication Date: 2009

Overviews & Introductory Works

The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by O. Neugebauer
Publication Date: 1969
Mathematics Across Cultures The History of Non-Western Mathematics (Online access) by Helaine Selin (Editor); Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Other Adaptation by)
Publication Date: 2001

Mathematics in Islamic Civilizations

Episodes in the mathematics of medieval Islam by J. L. Berggren
Publication Date: 1986
Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics by Roshdi Rashed; Nader El-Bizri (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011

Early Modern Era

Discipline & experience : the mathematical way in the scientific revolution by Peter R. Dear
Publication Date: 1995

Quantification in Context

Quantification and the quest for medical certainty by J. Rosser Matthews
Publication Date: 1995
The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century by Tore Frängsmyr; H. L Heilborn; Robin E Rider
Publication Date: 1990
Trust in Numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life by Theodore M. Porter
Publication Date: 1995

Select Studies

Defending Hypatia (Online access) by Robert Goulding
Publication Date: 2010
From Alexandria, through Baghdad : surveys and studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic mathematical sciences in honor of J.L. Berggren (Online access) by Nathan Sidoli; Glen Van Brummelen; J. L. Berggren
Publication Date: 2014

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