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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

Objects

Early modern things : objects and their histories, 1500-1800 by Paula Findlen (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Biographies of Scientific Objects by Lorraine Daston (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
Thinking with objects : the transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century by Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Publication Date: 2006

Technologies

Fireworks : pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history by Simon Werrett
Publication Date: 2010

State of the Field

Companion to the Philosophy of Technology by Vincent F. Hendricks; Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen; Stig Andur Pedersen; Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen
Publication Date: 2009

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology (Online access) by Ian McNeil (Editor)
Publication Date: 1990

Bibliographies

From the Titanic to the Challenger : an annotated bibliography on technological failures of the twentieth century by Susan Davis Herring
Publication Date: 1989
The history of electrical technology : an annotated bibliography by Bernard S. Finn
Publication Date: 1991
The history of engineering science : an annotated bibliography by David F. Channell
Publication Date: 1989
Science across cultures : an annotated bibliography of books on non-western science, technology, and medicine by Helaine Selin
Publication Date: 1992

Overviews & Introductory Works

Science and Technology in World History an Introduction (Online access) by James E. McClellan
Publication Date: 2006
Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West by Margaret C. Jacob
Publication Date: 1997
Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations by Richard G. Olson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Technology and society in the medieval centuries : Byzantium, Islam, and the West, 500-1300 by Pamela O. Long
Publication Date: 2003
Technology in world civilization : a thousand-year history by Arnold Pacey
Publication Date: 1991
Technology, society, and culture in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 by Pamela O. Long
Publication Date: 2000

Periods & Places

Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations (Online access) by Kuo-Hung Hsiao; Hong-Sen Yan
Publication Date: 2013
Studies in medieval Islamic technology : from Philo to al-Jazarī, from Alexandria to Diy*ar Bakr by Donald R. Hill
Publication Date: 1998
Water Technology in the Middle Ages by Roberta J. Magnusson
Publication Date: 2001

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