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History of Science Secondary Sources by Type - Select Studies

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

Influential Studies

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant
Publication Date: 1979
1990 edition also available.
Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism by Mario Biagioli
Publication Date: 1993
Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin; Simon Schaffer
Publication Date: 1985
Also available as eBook
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn; Ian Hacking (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 1962
50th Anniversary (4th) edition shown
Earlier editions also available

Telling Stories in the History of Science

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion by Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey B. Russell
Publication Date: 1991