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 |