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III. Evolution

III.1 Origins of Geology

Gillispie, Charles C., Genesis and Geology (1951) Greene, Mott, Geology in the Nineteenth Century (1982) Hall, D. H., History of the Earth Sciences (1976) Kitts, David B., Structure of Geology (1977) Laudan, Rachel, From Mineralogy to Geology (1987) Porter, Roy, The Making of Geology (1977)

III.2 Time

Albritton, Claude C., Jr., The Abyss of Time (1980) Burchfield, Joe, Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth, 2nd ed. (1990) Gould, Stephen J., Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987) Haber, Francis, Age of the World, Moses to Darwin (1959) *Lewis, C. L. E. & Knell, S.J. (Eds) The Age of the Earth from 4004 BC to AD 2002 (2001) Rossi, Paolo, The Dark Abyss of Time (1979, transl. 1984) Toulmin, Stephen & Goodfield, June, Discovery of Time (1965)

III.3 Revolution in the Earth Sciences [20th century]

Glen, William, Road to Jaramillo (1982) Hallam, A., Revolution in the Earth Sciences (1973) LeGrand, H. E., Drifting Continents ... (1988) Marvin, Ursula, Continental Drift (1973) Oreskes, Naomi, Rejection of Continental Drift (1999) Stewart, John A., Drifting Continents & Colliding Paradigms (1990) Wood, Robert Muir, The Dark Side of the Earth (1985)

III.4 Evolutionary ideas before Darwin

Glass, Bentley et al. (Eds) Forerunners of Darwin (1959, 1968) Greene, John, The Death of Adam (1959) Lovejoy, Arthur O., Great Chain of Being (1936) Mayr, Ernst, Growth of Biological Thought (1982) Merz, John, History of European Thought, vol. 2 (1912) Rudwick, Martin J. S., The Meaning of Fossils, 2d ed. (1976)

III.5 Darwin and Evolutionary Biology

Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) Eiseley, Loren, Darwin's Century (1958) Ghiselin, Michael, Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969) Himmelfarb, Gertrude, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (1959) Mayr, Ernst, Growth of Biological Thought (1982) *Ospovat, Dov, The Development of Darwin's Theory (1981) Ruse, Michael, The Darwinian Revolution (1979)

III.6 Impact of Darwinism

Glick, Thomas (ed.) Comparative Reception of Darwinism (1974) Green, John C., Science, Ideology and World View (1981) Hull, David, Darwin and his Critics (1973) Irvine, William, Apes, Angels and Victorians (1955) Moore, James R., Post-Darwinian Controversies (1979) Numbers, Ronald L., Darwinism comes to America (1998) Paul, Harry, The Edge of Contingency (1979)

III.7 Human Evolution

Bowler, Peter J., Theories of Human Evolution (1986) Wendt, Herbert, In Search of Adam (1956)

III.8 Darwin and the human mind

Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) Gruber, Howard E., Darwin on Man, 2nd ed. (1981) Richards, Robert J., Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior (1987)

III.9 Social Darwinism

Bannister, Robert C., Social Darwinism (1979) Greene, John, Science, Ideology, and World View (1981) Hofstadter, Richard, Social Darwinism (1944) Jones, Greta, Social Darwinism and English Thought (1980)

III.10 Victorian Science

Cannon, Susan, Science in Culture (1978) Kargon, Robert H., Science in Victorian Manchester (1977) Knight, David, The Age of Science (1986)

III.11 American science (19th century)

Bruce, Robert, Launching of Modern American Science (1987) Reingold, Nathan, Science in Nineteenth Century America (1964) Rosenberg, Charles E., No Other Gods (1976)

III.12 Creation-Evolution controversy (20th century America)

Eve, Raymond A. & Harrold, Francis B., The Creationist Movement in Modern America (1991) Gilbert, James, Redeeming Culture (1997) Larson, Edward J., Summer for the Gods (1997) Levine, Lawrence, Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryant, the Last Decade (1965) Numbers, Ronald, The Creationists (1992) Numbers, Ronald, Darwinism comes to America (1998))

III.13 Genetics

Allen, Garland, Thomas Hunt Morgan (1978) Carlson, Elof, The Gene (1966) Darden, Lindley, Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics (1991) Dunn, L. C., Short History of Genetics (1965) Olby, Robert, Origins of Mendelism, 2nd ed. (1985)

III.14 Eugenics

Kevles, Daniel, In the Name of Eugenics (1985) Paul, Diane, Controlling Human Heredity (1995)

III.15 Molecular Genetics & Double Helix

Judson, Horace, The Eighth Day of Creation (1979) McCarty, Maclyn, The Transforming Principle (1985) Watson, James D., The Double Helix

III.16 Nature/Nurture (heredity/environment)

Cravens, Hamilton, The Triumph of Evolution (1978) Degler, Carl, In Search of Human Nature (1991) Wetzell, Richard F., Inventing the Criminal (2000)

III.17 Lysenko & Soviet Biology

Graham, Loren, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union (1966, 1972) Joravsky, David, The Lysenko Affair (1970) Medvedev, Zhores, Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko (1969)

IV Sex, Mind & Behavior

IV.1 Freud & Psychoanalysis

Fine, Reuben, History of Psychoanalysis (1979) Jones, Ernest, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953; abridged ed. by L. Trilling & S. Marcus, 1961) Robert, Marthe, The Psychoanalytic Revolution (1966) Sulloway, Frank, Freud (1979)

IV.2 Freud's influence in America

Hale, Nathan, Freud and the Americans Quen, Jacques & Carlson, Eric T., American Psychoanalysis (1978)

IV.3 Anthropology

Harris, Marvin, Rise of Anthropological Theory (1968) Kardiner, Abram & Preble, Edward, They Studied Man (1961) Stocking, George, Race, Culture and Evolution (1968)

IV.4 Experimental Psychology from Wundt to Skinner

Boring, Edwin G., History of Experimental Psychology (2nd ed. 1950) Fancher, Raymond E., Pioneers of Psychology (1979) Flugel, J. C., A Hundred Years of Psychology (rev. ed. 1964) Hergenhahn, B. R., Introduction to the History of Psychology, 2nd ed. (1992)

IV.5 IQ Test

Fancher, Raymond, The Intelligence Men (1985, 1987) Gould, Stephen Jay, Mismeasure of Man (1981) Hearnshaw, L. S., Cyril Burt (1979)

IV.6 Social Science

Becker, Howard & Barnes, H. W., Social Thought from Lore to Science vol. 3 (1961) Cravens, Hamilton, Triumph of Evolution (1978)

IV.7 Sex Differences

Bleier, Ruth, Science and Gender: Critique of Biology (1984) Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Myths of Gender: Biol. Theories (1985) Harding, Sandra, The Science Quesion in Feminism (1986) Harding, Sandra, Whose Science, Whose Knowledge? (1991) Hubbard, Ruth, The Politics of Women's Biology (1990) Keller, Evelyn Fox, Reflections on Gender and Science (1985) Klein, Viola, The Feminine Character (1949, 1971, 1989) Martin, M. Kay & Voorhies, Barbara, Female of the Species (1975) Schiebinger, Londa, Nature's Body (1993)

IV.8 Women in Science

Abir-Am, Pnina G. & Outram, Dorinda (eds.) Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives (1987) Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, History of Women in the Sciences (1999) Schiebinger, London, The Mind has no Sex? (1989) Sonnert, Gerald, & Holton, G., Who Succeeds in Science? (1995)

V. Energy

V.1 Probability (before 1800)

Daston, Lorraine, Classical Probability... (1988) Hacking, Ian, Emergence of Probability (1975) Kendall, Maurice & Plackett, R. L. (Eds) Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Vol. II. (1977)

V.2 Statistical theories (after 1800)

Gigerenzer, Gerd et al., Empire of Chances (1989) Hacking, Ian, The Taming of Chance (1990) *Krüger, Lorenz et al. (eds.) Probabilistic Revolution (1987) Porter, Theodore M., Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986) Von Plato, Jan, Creating Modern Probability (1994)

V.4 Faraday

Agassi, Joseph, Faraday as a Natural Philosopher (1971) Gooding, David & James, F.A.J.L. (Eds) Faraday Rediscovered (1985, 1989) Williams, L. Pearce, Michael Faraday (1964, 1971)

V.5 Forces, Fields, Energy

Cardwell, D.S.L., From Watt to Clausius (1971) Elkana, Yehuda, Discovery of the Conservation of Energy (1974) Hesse, Mary, Forces and Fields (1961) Jammer, Max, Concepts of Force (1957) Kuhn, T. S., "Energy conservation..." in Essential Tension (1977) Smith, Crosbie, Science of Energy (1998) Williams, L. Pearce, The Origins of Field Theory (1966)

V.6 Maxwell

Buchwald, Jed, From Maxwell to Microphysics (1985) Campbell, Lewis & Garnett, W., Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882, new ed. by R. H. Kargon, 1969) Everitt, C. W. F., James Clerk Maxwell (1975) Tolstoy, Ivan, James Clerk Maxwell (1981)

V.7 Kelvin

Sharlin, Harold, Lord Kelvin (1979) *Smith, Crosbie & Wise, M. Norton, Energy & Empire (1989) Thompson, Sylvanus, Life of Lord Kelvin (1910)

V.8 Edison

Friedel, Robert & Israel, Paul, Edison's Electric Light (1986) Josephson, Matthew, Edison (1959, 1961)

V.9 Gibbs

Rukeyser, Muriel, Willard Gibbs (1942) Wheeler, Lynde Phelps, Josiah, Willard Gibbs (1951)

V.10 Mathematics after Newton

Aspray, William & Kitcher, P. (Eds) History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics (1988) *Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann (1970) Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, Norton, History of the Mathematical Sciences (1997, 1998) Kline, Morris (see I.8) Kline, Morris, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)

V.11 Physics in the 19th Century

Bellone, E., A World on Paper (1980) Brantlinger, Patrick (ed.), Energy and Entropy (1989) Garber, Elizabeth, The Language of Physics (1998) Harman, P. M., Energy, Force & Matter (1982); Wranglers and Physicists (1985) Jungnickel, Christa & McCormmach, Russell, Intellectual Mastery of Nature (1986) Knight, David, The Age of Science (1986) Merz, John, History of European Thought, v.1&2 (1904,1912) Nye, Mary Jo, Before Big Science (1996) Purrington, Robert, Physics in the Nineteenth Century (1997)

V.12 Einstein

Bernstein, Jeremy, Einstein (1973) Cassidy, David, Einstein and our World (1995) Clark, Ronald W., Einstein: The Life and Times (1971) Feuer, Lewis, Einstein and the Generations of Science (1974) Frank, Philipp, Einstein (1947) Hoffmann, Banesh, Creator and Rebel (1972) Holton, Gerald & Elkana, Y. (Eds) Albert Einstein (1982) Holton, Gerald, Thematic Origins... (rev. ed. 1988) Levenson, Thomas, Einstein in Berlin (2003) *Pais, Abraham, 'Subtle is the Lord' (1982)

V.13 Art and Relativity

Miller, Arthur I., Einstein, Picasso (2001) Shlain, Leonard, Art & Physics (1991)

V.14 Riemann's Hypothesis

Derbyshire, John, Prime Obsession (2003) Sabbagh, Karl, Riemann's Hypothesis (2003)

VI. Atom and Universe

VI.1 Lavoisier

Guerlac, Henry, Lavoisier: The Crucial Year (1961) Holmes, Frederic, Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life (1985) McCann, H. Gilman, Chemistry Transformed (1978) McKie, Douglas, Antoine Lavoisier (1952)

VI.2 Dalton

Cardwell, D. S. L. (Ed.) John Dalton & The Progress of Science (1968) Greenaway, Frank, John Dalton and the Atom (1966) Patterson, Elizabeth, John Dalton and the Atomic Theory (1970) Thackray, Arnold, John Dalton (1972)

VI.3 Chemistry in the 19th century

Benfey, O. T., From Vital Force to Structural Formulas (1964) Berry, A. J., From Classical to Modern Chemistry (1954) Findlay, Alexander & Williams, Trevor, A Hundred Years of Chemistry (1937, 1948, 1965) Knight, David M., Atoms and elements (1967) Levere, Trevor, Transforming Matter (2001) Schneer, Cecil J., Mind and Matter (1969)

VI.4 Marie Curie

Curie, Eve, Madame Curie (1937) Quinn, Susan, Marie Curie (1995) Reid, Robert, Marie Curie (1974)

VI.6 Bohr

*Folse, Henry, The Philosophy of Niels Bohr (1985) French, A. P. & Kennedy, P. J. (Eds) Niels Bohr (1985) Moore, Ruth, Niels Bohr (1966) Pais, Abraham, Niels Bohr's Times (1991)

VI.7 Quantum theory

Beller, Mara, Quantum Dialogue (1999) Cushing, James, Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Interpretation (1994) Guillemin, Victor, Story of Quantum Mechanics (1968) Hoffmann, Banesh, Strange Story of the Quantum (1947, 1959) Kragh, Helge, Quantum Generations (1999) *Kuhn, Thomas, Black Body Theory ... (1978)

VI.8 Particle Physics and Physicists (after 1940)

Crease, Robert P. & Mann, C. C., Second Creation (1986) *Franklin, Allan, The Neglect of Experiment (1986) *Galison, Peter, How Experiments End (1987) *Hoddeson, Lillian et al (eds.) Rise of the Standard Model (1997) Knorr-Cetina, Karin, Epistemic Cultures (1999) Pais, Abraham, Inward Bound (1986) *Pickering, Andrew, Constructing Quarks (1984) Traweek, Sharon, Beamtimes and Lifetimes (1988)

VI.9 American Physics (20th century)

Galison, Peter, How Experiments End (1987) Goldberg, Stanley & Stuewer, Roger (eds.) The Michelson Era... (1988) Kevles, Daniel J., The Physicists (1978) Moyer, Albert, American Physics in Transition (1983) Sopka, Katherine, Quantum Physics in America (1988)

VI.10 Atomic Bomb

Badash, Lawrence, Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (1995) Hewlett, R. G. & Anderson, O. E., A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol. 1, The New World 1939-46 (1962) Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)

VI.11 Technology and Society (modern American)

Friedel, Robert (ed.) "Snapshots of a Discipline" Supplement to Vol. 36, no. 2 of the journal Technology and Culture (1995) Hughes, Thomas Parke (ed.), Changing Attitudes toward American Technology (1975) Marcus, Alan I. & Segal, H. P., Technology in America (1989) Mazlish, Bruce (ed.), The Railroad and the Space Program (1965) Smith, Merritt Roe & Marx, Leo (eds.), Does Technology Drive History? (1994) Mesthene, Emmanuel, Technological Change (1970) Noble, David, America by Design (1977)

VI.12 Cosmology

Berendzen, Richard, et al., Man Discovers the Galaxies (1976) Crowe, Michael, Modern Theories of the Universe (1994) Dickson, F. P., The Bowl of Night (1968) Kragh, Helge, Cosmology and Controversy (1996) *North, J. D., The Measure of the Universe (1965) Smith, Robert W., Expanding Universe (1982)

VI.13 Solar System

Doel, Ronald E., Solar System Astronomy in America (1996) Tatarewicz, Joseph N., Space Technology and Planetary Asttonomy (1990)

VI.14 Science and society

Barber, Bernard, Science and the Social Order (1952) Ben-David, Joseph, The Scientist's Role in Society 2nd ed. (1984) Burnham, John, How Superstition Won and Science Lost (1987) LaFollette, Making Science our own (1990) Ravetz, Jerome, Scientific Knowledge & its Social Problems (1971) Rose, Hilary & Steven, Science and Society (1969) Rosenberg, Charles E., No Other Gods (1976) Weart, Spencer R., Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (1988) Ziman, John, Public Knowledge (1968)

VI.16 Science and Literature (20th century)

Hayles, N. Katherine (ed.) Chaos and Order (1991) Nadeau, Robert, Readings from the New Book on Nature (1981) Snow, C. P., The Two Cultures: And a Second Look (1964)

VI.17 Current academic critiques of science ("Science Wars")
         Choose one from (a), one from (b)

(a)	Collins, Harry & Pinch, Trevor, The Golem (1993) Dunbar, Robin, The Trouble with Science (1995) Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (1998) Ross, Andrew (ed.), Science Wars (1996)
(b)	Gross, Paul & Levitt, Norman, Higher Superstition (1994) Holton, Gerald, Science and Anti-Science (1993) Koertge, Noretta (ed.) A House Built on Sand (1998) Parsons, Keith M., Drawing out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (2001)

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