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AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ITS CULTURAL INFLUENCES

FOUNDED IN 1912 BY GEORGE SARTON

NINETY-NINTH CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Official Journal of the History of Science Society

1974 VOL. 65, 5, NO. 230



Editor: ROBERT P. MULTHAUF

Managing Editor: BERNARD S. FINN

Assistant Editor: DIANA D. MENKES

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION * WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.

Committee for Isis of the History of Science Society

FREDERIC L. HOLMES, University of Western Ontario, Chairman

ROBERT SIEGFRIED

University o Wisconsin EDWARD GRANT

Indiana University

ROBERT E. KOHLER, JR.

University oj Pennsylvania

Former Editors of Isis GEORGE SARTON, I. BERNARD COHEN, HARRY WOOLF

Advisory Editors

JEROME J. BYLBYL, University of Chicago BERNARD R. GoLDsTEIN, University of'Pittsburgh ROGER HAHN, University oJ' California, Berkeley J. L. HEILBRON, University of 'California, Berkeley MARY HESSE, Cambridge University AARON IHDE, University of Wisconsin ROBERT H. KARGON, Johns Hopkins University OTro M. MARX, Boston University MICHAEL R. MCVAUGH, University of North Carolina P. M. RATrANSI, University College, London NATHAN RnNGOLD, Smithsonian Institution MARTIN J. S. RUDWICK, Cambridge University CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA, Technische Universitat Berlin NATHAN SIVIN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology GEORGE W. STOCKING, JR., University of Chicago VICTOR E. THOREN, Indiana University GREGORY VLASTOS, Princeton University

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Copyright, 1974, by the History of Science Society, Inc. Printed in England by Balding + Mansell, London and Wisbech



Is's

Vol. 65 Part 5 1974

Ninety-ninth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences

(to January 1974)

Edited by John Neu

Bibliographer for the History of Science University of Wisconsin Memorial Library

in cooperation with the Department of the History of Science

University of Wisconsin



CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES 5

CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY A. History of Science: General References

and Tools

I History of Science, General Works 1 5 2 Bibliographies and Bibliographical

Tools 1 6

3 1Historiography and Historical Method 1 7

4 Biographical Collections 17 5 Encyclopedias and Compendia of

General Scientific Knowledge 18

B. Science and its History from Special Points of View

10 Philosophy of Science and Methods of Science 18

1 1 Scientific Institutions 22 12 Scientific Instruments and Special

Techniques 23 13 Scientific Education and History of

Education 23 14 Social Relations of Science 23 1 5 Humanistic Relations of Science 27

C. Histories of the Special Sciences

20 Philosophy 30 21 Mathematics 31 22 Physical Sciences

a. Astronomy 31 b. Physics 32 c. Chemistry 34

23 Earth Sciences a. Geology and geophysics 35 b. Geography, cartography, and

geodesy 35 c. Oceanography 36 d. Travel, exploration, and navigation 36 e. Mineralogy and crystallography 36 f. Meteorology 36

24 Biological Sciences a. Biology in general 37 b. Microscopy and microbiology 38 c. Zoology 38 d. Botany 38 e. Anatomy and physiology 39 f. Physical anthropology 39

g. Agriculture 39 h. Heredity and evolution 40

25 Sciences of Man 40 26 Medicine and Medical Sciences

a. Medical history 42 b. Pharmacy 45

27 Technology 47 28 Pseudo-sciences and Paradoxes 49 29 Anicillary Disciplines 50

D. Chronological Classification

30 Prehistory and Primitive Societies 50 31 Ancient Near East 50 32 Classical Antiquity

a. General works; philosophy 52 b. Exact sciences 54 c. Natural history 57 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 58 e. Technology, travel, exploration,

and geography 58 f. Medicine and health 59

33.1 Middle Ages, from c. A.D. 500 to c. 1450 a. General works; philosophy 60 b. Exact sciences 63 c. Natural history 64 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 65 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


33.2 Middle Ages, Byzantium, from c. A.D. 500toc. 1450 67

34 Islamic and Related Cultures, from c. A.D. 500 to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 68 b. Exact sciences 69 c. Natural history 70 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 70 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


35.1 India, to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 71 b. Exact sciences 71 c. Natural history 72 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 72 e. Technology, travel, exploration,




35.2 The Far East, to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 72 b. Exact sciences 73 c. Natural history 73 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 73 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


35.3 Pre-Columbian America, to c. 1500 a. General works; philosophy 74 b. Exact sciences 74 c. Natural history 74 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 74 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


36 Renaissance and Reformation, 1450-1600 a. General works; philosophy 74 b. Exact sciences 77 c. Natural history 80 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 80 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


37 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries a. General works; philosophy 85 b. Mathemnatics 94 c. Physical sciences 95 d. 7arth sciences 103 e. Biological sciences 104 f. Sciences of man 107

g. Medicine 109 h. Technology 115 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 117 j. Ancillary disciplines 118

38 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries a. General works; philosophy 118 b. Mathematics 122 c. Physical sciences 123 d. Earth sciences 130 e. Biological sciences 132 f. Sciences of man 139 g. Medicine 144 h. Technology 149 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 152 j. Ancillary disciplines 153

39 Contemporary Sciences, from c. 1914 a. General works; philosophy 153 b. Mathematics 154 c. Physical sciences 155 d. Earth sciences 158 e. Biological sciences 158 f. Sciences of man 160 g. Medicine 163 h. Technology 163 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 164 j. Ancillary disciplines 164 k. Historians and philosophers of

science 165

BOOK REVIEWS 167

INDEX 187



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