HSci 1814 || Intro to History of Science: ... to the Scientific Revolution
Books
- Turnbull, David. 1989. Maps are Territories: Science is an Atlas. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
- Galilei, Galileo, [1632] 1967. Dialog Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Translated by Stillman Drake. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Supplementary Reading
- Eddy, John A. 1974. "Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel." Science 184:1035-43.
- Ronan, Colin A. and Joseph Needham. 1986. "Magnetism." In The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China, 3:6-27, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Sherby, Oleg D. and Jeffrey Wadsworth. 1985. "Damascus Steels." Scientific American 252(Feb.): 112-120.
- Galen, On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, Book 6: The Instruments of the Pneuma,
§§2, 7, 9-10, 17. Translation by Margaret Tallmadge May, Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press (1968).
- Gilbert, William. 1600. De magnete [On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth], Pref. Book I, Ch. 3; Bk II, Ch. 6, 14; Bk III, Ch. 2; Bk IV, Ch. 1, 9; Bk V, Ch. 12; Bk VI, Ch. 1, 4. Translated by P. Fleury Mottlelay [public domain].
- Harvey, William. 1628. De motu cordis, Dedication, Chapters 5-6, 8, 13-15. Translated by Robert Willis [public domain].
- Boyle, Robert. 1660. New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Air. Expt. I, XVII [public domain].
- Newton, Isaac. 1672. Letter on Optics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. [public domain].
- Newton, Isaac. [1704] 1730. Opticks, 4th ed. Book I, Part I, Pr. I; Part 2, Pr. III, VI; Book III, Qu. 31 (concl.) [public domain].
- Merchant, Carolyn. 1980. "Mechanism as Power." Pp. 216-235 in The Death of Nature, New York: Harper Collins.
- Allchin, Douglas. "The Gender of Boyle's Law."
- Recommended reference: Mason, Stephen. 1962. A History of the Sciences. New York: Collier Books.
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