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-woo" AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ITS CULTURAL INFLUENCES FOUNDED IN 1912 BY GEORGE SARTON

NINETY-SEVENTH CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Official Journal of the History of Science Society 1972 VOL. 63. 5, NO. 220



Editor: ROBERT P. MULTHAUF

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Assistant Editor: DIANA D. MENKES

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NATHAN SIVIN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN, Yale University GREGORY VLASTOS, Princeton University MICHAEL R. MCVAUGH, University of North Carolina ROBERT H. KARGON, Johns Hopkins University JEROME J. BYLEBYL. University of Chicago ROGER HAHN, University of California, Berkeley JOHN HEILBRON, University of California, Berkeley JEAN THtODORIDtS, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris P. M. RATTANSI, University College, London CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA, Technische Universitdt Berlin VICTOR E. THOREN, Indiana University MARTIN RUDWICK, Cambridge University MARY HESSE, Cambridge University GEORGE W. STOCKING, JR., University of Chicago NATHAN REINGOLD, Smithsontian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Is's

Vol. 63 Part 5 1972

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

(to January 1972)

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

1 History of Science, General Works 13 2 Bibliographies and Bibliographical

Tools 14 3 Historiography and Historical

Method 15 4 Biographical Collections 16 5 Encyclopedias and Compendia of

General Scientific Knowledge 16

B. Science and its History from Special Points of View

10 Philosophy of Science and Methods of Science 17

1 1 Scientific Institutions 20 12 Scientific Instruments and Special

Techniques 20 13 Scientific Education and History of

Education 21 14 Social Relations of Science 21 1 5 Humanistic Relations of Science 29

C. Histories of the Special Sciences

20 Philosophy 33 21 Mathematics 33 22 Physical Sciences

a. Astronomy 35 b. Physics 36 c. Chemistry 39

23 Earth Sciences a. Geology and geophysics 40

b. Geography, cartography, and geodesy 40

c. Oceanography 41 d. Travel, exploration, and navigation 41 e. Mineralogy and crystallography 41

f. Meteorology 41 24 Biological Sciences

a. Biology in general 42

b. Microscopy and microbiology 43

c. Zoology 43

d. Botany 43 e. Anatomy and physiology 44

f. Physical anthropology 45

g. Agriculture 45 h. Heredity and evolution 45

25 Sciences of Man 46 26 Medicine and the Medical Sciences

a. Medical history 49 b. Pharmacy 53

27 Technology 55 28 Pseudo-sciences and Paradoxes 58 29 Ancillary Disciplines 59

D. Chronological Classification

30 Prehistory and Primitive Societies 60 31 Ancient Near East 60 32 Classical Antiquity

a. General works; philosophy 62 b. Exact sciences 64 c. Natural history 66 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 67 e. Technology, travel, exploration,

and geography 76 f. Medicine and health 68

33.1 Middle Ages, from c. A.D. 500 to c. 1450 a. General works; philosophy 70 b. Exact sciences 73 c. Natural history 75 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 76 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


33.2 Middle Ages, Byzantium, from c. A.D. 500 to c. 1450 79

34 Islamic and Related Cultures, from c. A.D. 500 to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 80 b. Exact sciences 81 c. Natural history 82 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 82 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


35.1 India, to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 84 b. Exact sciences 84 c. Natural history 84 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 84 e. Technology, travel, exploration,




35.2 The Far East, to c. 1600 a. General works; philosophy 85 b. Exact sciences 86 c. Natural history 86 d. Pseudo-science and experiment 86 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


35.3 Pre-Columbian America, to c. 15 00 a. General works; philosophy 87 b. Exact sciences 87

c. Natural history 87

d. Pseudo-science and experiment 87 e. Technology, travel, exploration,

and geography 87

f. Medicine and health 87

36 Renaissance and Reformation, 1450-1600 a. General works; philosophy 87 b. Exact sciences 90 c. Natural history 91

d. Pseudo-science and experiment 92 e. Technology, travel, exploration,


37 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries a. General works; philosophy 97 b. Mathematics 104 c. Physical sciences 106 d. Earth sciences 113 e. Biological sciences 116 f. Sciences of man 120

g. Medicine 121 h. Technology 127 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 1 29 j. Ancillary disciplines 130

38 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries a. General works; philosophy 130 b. Mathematics 133 c. Physical sciences 135 d. Earth sciences 144 e. Biological sciences 145 f. Sciences of man 152 g. Medicine 158 h. Technology 163 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 168 j. Ancillary disciplines 168

39 Contemporary Sciences, from c. 1914 a. General works; philosophy 168 b. Mathematics 169 c. Physical sciences 169 d. Earth sciences 174 e. Biological sciences 174 f. Sciences of man 175 g. Medicine 177 h. Technology 178 i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 180 j. Ancillary disciplines 180 k. Historians and philosophers of

science 180

BOOK REVIEWS 181

INDEX 207



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