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I. The Clockwork Universe

I.1 Copernican Revolution

Crowe, Michael J., Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution (1990) Duhem, Pierre, To Save the Phenomena (1908, trans. 1969) Hanson, Norwood R., Constellations and Conjectures (1973) Kuhn, Thomas, The Copernican Revolution (1957) Koyré, A., From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) Rosen, Edward, Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution (1984)

I.2 Kepler

Caspar, Max, Kepler (1571-1630) (1962) Kozhamthadan, Job, The Discovery of Kepler's Laws (1994) Stephenson, Bruce, Kepler's Physical Astronomy (1987)

I.3 Early Chemistry

Ihde, Aaron J., Development of Modern Chemistry (1964) Leicester, Henry M., Historical Background of Chemistry (1956) Multhauf, R. P., The origins of chemistry (1966)

I.4 Science in the Renaissance

Hall, Marie Boas, The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 (1962) Debus, Allen G., Man and Nature in the Renaissance (1978) Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology... (1980) Sarton, George, Six Wings: Men of Science ... (1957) Vickers, Brian (ed.) Occult & Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1984) Wightman, W. P. D., Science in a Renaissance Society (1972)

I.5 Galileo

Biagioli, Mario, Galileo Courtier (1993) de Santillana, Giorgio, The Crime of Galileo (1955) *Finocchiaro, Maurice, The Galileo Affair (1989) Geymonat, Ludovico, Galileo Galilei: A Biography (1957, trans. 1965) Langford, Jerome, Galileo, Science & the Church, rev. ed. (1971) Redondi, Pietro, Galileo Heretic (1987) Shapere, Dudley, Galileo: A Philosophical Study (1974) Wallace, William A. (ed.) Reinterpreting Galileo (1986)

I.6 Bacon

Bowen, Catherine Drinker, Francis Bacon (1963) Eiseley, Loren, The man who saw through time (1973) Rossi, Paolo, Francis Bacon (1968)

I.7 Boyle

Potter, Elizabeth, Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases (2001) Sargent, Rose-Mary, The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle... (1995) Shapin, Steven & Schaffer, Simon, Leviathan and the Air Pump (1985)

I.8 Newton

Cohen, I. Bernard, The Newtonian Revolution (1980) Dobbs, B. J. T., & Jacob, M. C., Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (1995) Koyré, Alexandre, Newtonian Studies (1965) Theerman, Paul & Seeff, Adele, editors, Action and Reaction (1993)

I.9 Calculus

Boyer, Carl B. The Concepts of the Calculus (1949), repr. as History of the Calculus (1959) Edwards, C. H., Jr., Historical Development of the Calculus (1979) Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, editor, Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences (1997, 1998) Kline, Morris, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972)

I.10 Science and the Enlightenment

Gillispie, Charles Coulston, The Edge of Objectivity (1960) Hankins, Thomas, Science and the Enlightenment (1985) Heilbron, J. L., Elements of Early Modern Physics (1982) Olson, Richard, Science Deified and Science Defied, vol. 2 (1990) Randall, John Herman, Jr., Making of the Modern Mind (1926, 1940) Rousseau, G. S. & Porter, Roy, Ferment of Knowledge (1980)

I.11 Technology (European, General)

Bugliarello, George & Doner, D. B., History and Philosophy of Technology (1979) Bijker, Wiebe et al., editors, Social Construction of Technological Systems (1987, 1989) Cardwell, D. S. L., Turning Points in Western Technology (1972) Ellul, Jacques, The Technological Society (1954, tr. 1964) Jacob, Margaret, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (1997) Pacey, Arnold, The Maze of Ingenuity (1974, 1975, 1992)

I.12 Descartes

*Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1995, 1997) Rodis-Lewis, Genevive, Descartes, his life and thought (1998) Watson, Richard, Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes (2002)

II. Revolutions and Scientific Method

II.1 Theories of the history of science

Agassi, Joseph, Towards an Historiography of Science (1963) Cohen, I. Bernard, Revolution in Science (1985) Feyerabend, Paul, Against Method (1975, 1988, 1993) Giere, R. N., Explaining Science (1988) Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism ... (1998) Hanson, Norwood Russell, Patterns of Discovery (1958) Hull, David L., Science as a Process (1988) Kuhn, Thomas S., The Essential Tension (1977) Kuhn, T. S., Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed.(1970) Lakatos, Imre & Musgrave, Alan (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1970) Laudan, Larry, Progress and its Problems (1977) McAllister, James W., Beauty and Revolution in Science (1996) Popper, K.R., Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935, trans. 1959) Sulloway, Frank, Born to Rebel (1996)

II.2 The Scientific Revolution

Butterfield, Herbert, Origins of Modern Science (1957) Cohen, H. Floris, The S R (1994) *Hall, A. Rupert, Revolution in Science 1500-1750 (1983) Jacob, Margaret C. The Cultural Meaning of the S R (1988) Lindberg, David & Westman, R. S., editors, Reappraisals of the S R (1990) Merchant, Carolyn, Death of Nature (1980) Osler, Margaret J., editor, Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (2000) Shapin, Steven, The S R (1996)

II.3 Role of Mathematics and Numbers

Crosby, Alfred W., The Measure of Reality (1997) Dear, Peter, Discipline and Experience (1995)

II.4 Merton thesis

Cohen, I.B., editor, Puritanism & Rise of Modern Science (1990) Feuer, Lewis S., The Scientific Intellectual (1963) Merton, Robert, Science, Technology and Society (1938, 1970)

II.5 Possible Alternative Sites for the Scientific Revolution (why not China or Islam?)

Dainian, Fan and Cohen, R.S. (Eds.) Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (1996) Nakayama, Shigeru & Sivin, Nathan (eds.), Chinese Science (1973) Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Science and Civilization in Islam (1968) Needham, Joseph [abridged by C. Ronan] Shorter Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 1 (1978)

II.6 Sociology of science

Barnes, Barry et al. Scientific Knowledge (1996) Brannigan, Augustine, The social basis of scientific discoveries (1981) Cole, Stephen, Making Science (1992) Crane, Diana, Invisible Colleges (1972) Gaston, Jerry, The Reward System (1978) Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism... (1998) Hull, David L., Science as a Process (1988) Knorr-Cetina, Karin, Epistemic Cultures (1999) Latour, Bruno, Science in Action (1987) Latour, Bruno & Woolgar, S., Laboratory Life, 2nd ed. (1986) Merton, Robert K., The Sociology of Science (1973) Mulkay, Michael, Sociology of Science (1991)

II.7 Psychology of Science

Aris, Rutherford et al (ed.) Springs of Scientific Creativity (1983) Sulloway, Frank, Born to Rebel (1996) Taylor, Calvin W. & Barron, Frank (eds.) Scientific Creativity (1963)

II.8 Philosophy of Science

Chalmers, Alan, What is this thing called science? (Any edition) Donovan, Arthur, et al., editors, Scrutinizing Science (1988) Faust, David, Limits of Scientific Reasoning (1984) Feyerabend, Paul, Against Method (1975, 1988, 1993) Finocchiaro, Maurice, History of Science as Explanation (1973) Frank, Philipp, Modern Science and its Philosophy (1941, 1949, 1975) Hacking, Ian, Representing and Intervening (1983) Hanson, Norwood Russell, Patterns of Discovery (1958) Longino, Helen E., Science as Social Knowledge (1990)

II.9 Science and Literature (17th & 18th centuries)

Bush, Douglas, Science and English Poetry (1950) Nicolson, Marjorie, Newton Demands the Muse (1946) Nicolson, Marjorie, Science and Imagination (1956) Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine (1988)

II.10 Science and religion

Brooke, John Hedley, Science and Religion (1991) *Funkenstein, Amos, Theology & the Scientific Imagination (1986) Lindberg, David C. & Numbers, Ronald L., God and Nature (1986) Gillispie, Charles, Genesis and Geology (1951) Hovenkamp, Herbert, Science and Religion in America 1800-1860 (1978) Paul, Harry, The edge of contingency (1979)

II.11 Scientometrics [quantitative aspects of science]

Elkana, Yehuda et al., Toward a Metric of Science (1978) Menard, Henry, Science: Growth and Change (1971) Price, Derek J. de Solla, Little Science, Big Science (1963)

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