HONR 221 - USEFUL BOOKS


1. Donald Cardwell, The Norton History of Technology, New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.

2. John Fauvel, et al., eds., Let Newton Be! Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

3. Charles C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 18 vols, New York: Scribner's, 1970-1980.

4. I. Grattan-Guinness, ed., Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical
          Sciences, 2 vols, London & New York: Routledge, 1994.

5. Ivor Grattan-Guinness, The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

6. A. Rupert Hall, From Galileo to Newton, New York: Dover, 1981.

7. A. Rupert Hall, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.

8. Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers, New York: Macmillan, 1959.

9. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

10. David C. Lindberg, ed., Science in the Middle Ages, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

11. David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

12. G.E.R. Lloyd, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, New York/London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1970.

13. John North, The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology, New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.

14. Howard R. Turner, Science in Medieval Islam, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

15. Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge: Cambridge University
          Press, 1980.

16. Richard S. Westfall, Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England, New Haven: Yale University
          Press, 1958.


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