HSCI 224: A Brief Bibliography


The following works a listed in order, more or less, synchronic with the course.  Many, if not all, are available at Sawyer Library.

 
I.B. Cohen  Revolutions in Science
T.S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
P. Thagard Conceptual Revolutions
Peter Barker & 
Roger Ariew eds 
Revolution and Continuity
D.C. Lindberg &
R. S. Westman eds.
Reappraisals of the scientific revolution
S. Mason A History of the Sciences
T.S. Kuhn The Copernican Revolution
A. Koestler The Sleepwalkers
A. Koyre From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
A. Armitage Copernicus
J.Dreyer Tycho Brahe
E.J. Dijksterhuis Mechanization of the World Picture
H. Kearney Science and Change, 1500-1700
A.R. Hall From Galileo to Newton
I.B.Cohen Birth of a New Physics
P. Redondi Galileo Heretic
R. Westfall Never at Rest
R. Westfall The Construction of Modern Science
S. Drake Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
I. Newton Principia
G. Galileo Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
G. Galileo Discourses on the Two New Sciences
I. Newton Opticks
H. Butterfield The Origins of Modern Science
H.M.Leicester The Historical Background of Chemistry
D. McKie Antoine Lavoisier
J.C. Greene The Death of Adam
Dean, Dennis R. James Hutton and the history of geology
S. J. Gould Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
M. Greene Geology in the 19th Century
L. Eiseley Darwin's Century
G. Himmelfarb Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
C. Darwin The Origin of Species
P. Appleman,ed. Darwin (Norton Anthology, 2nd ed.)
A.Desmond &
J. Moore
Darwin
Bowler, Peter J. The non-Darwinian revolution
D. Kevles In the Name of Eugenics
T.S. Kuhn Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (tech.)
V. Guillemin The Story of Quantum Mechanics
B.L. Cline The Questioners
B. Hoffman  Albert Einstein, Creator and Rebel
W. Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy
A. Pais  Subtle is the Lord: the Science and the Life of A. Einstein
E. A. Burtt The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
G. Holton Thematic Origins of ScientificThought: Kepler to Einstein
P.J.Bowler  The Eclipse of Darwinism
J. D. Watson The Double Helix
A. N. Whitehead Science and the Modern World
H.F.Judson The Eighth Day of Creation
LeGrand, H. E. Drifting continents and shifting theories