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History of Science Secondary Sources by Topic

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

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This page was created by Dr. Carolyn Scearce.

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 natural history : an annotated bibliography by Gavin D. R. Bridson
Publication Date: 1994

Famous Naturalists

Catching Nature in the Act (Online access) by Mary Terrall
Publication Date: 2014
Empire's Nature by Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor); Margaret Beck Pritchard (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999
From Natural History to the History of Nature by John Lyon (Edited and Translated by); Phillip R. Sloan (Edited and Translated by)
Publication Date: 1981
Linnaeus, Natural History and the Circulation of Knowledge by Hanna Hodacs (Editor); Stéphane Van Damme (Editor); Kenneth Nyberg (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
A Passion for Nature by Keith Stewart Thomson
Publication Date: 2008
Science in the Service of Empire by John Gascoigne
Publication Date: 1998
Unity of Nature by Gabriela Rangel; Wenzel Bilger; Americas Society Staff (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2014

Botany

American Household Botany by Judith Sumner
Publication Date: 2004
A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences by Alice Stroup
Publication Date: 1990
Cultivating Commerce by Sarah Easterby-Smith
Publication Date: 2018
The Naming of Names by Anna Pavord
Publication Date: 2005
The Shaping of Cambridge Botany: A Short History of Whole-Plant Botany in Cambridge from the Time of Ray into the Present century by S. M. Walters
Publication Date: 1981

Overviews & Introductory Works

Ancient Natural History by Roger French
Publication Date: 1994
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? by Susannah Gibson
Publication Date: 2015
Cultures of Natural History by N. Jardine (Editor); Dale C. Spartas (Photographer); J. A. Secord (Editor); E. C. Spary (Editor)
Publication Date: 1996
Deep Things Out of Darkness by John G. T. Anderson
Publication Date: 2013
Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson by Paul Lawrence Farber
Publication Date: 2000

Exploration and Discovery

James Cook by William Frame; Laura Walker
Publication Date: 2018
Naturalists at Sea by Glyn Williams
Publication Date: 2013
Plants and Empire by Londa Schiebinger
Publication Date: 2004
The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff
Publication Date: 2010
Visible Empire by Daniela Bleichmar
Publication Date: 2012
Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration by Tony Rice
Publication Date: 2000

Select Studies

The eye of the Lynx : Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history by David Freedberg
Publication Date: 2002
The Monkey and the Inkpot (Online access) by Carla Nappi; Carla Suzan Nappi
Publication Date: 2010
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger
Publication Date: 1993
The Science of Describing by Brian W. Ogilvie
Publication Date: 2006
The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography by Janet Browne
Publication Date: 1983
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Online access) by Lorraine Daston; Katharine Park
Publication Date: 1998
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1999 Pfizer Award

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