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=00"" AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ITS CULTURAL INFLUENCES FOUNDED IN 1912 BY GEORGE SARTON

ONE HUNDRED THIRD CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Official Journal of the History of Science Society 1978 VOL. 69, BIBLIOGRAPHY ISSUE



Editor: ROBERT P. MULTHAUF

Managing Editor: BERNARD S. FINN

Assistant Editor: DIANA D. MENKES

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LEONARD G. WILSON, University of Minnesota

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University of Pennsylvania

RUTH SCHWARTZ COWAN

State University of New York, Stony Brook

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University of Montreal

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Princeton University

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Vol. 69 Part 5 1978

One Hundred Third Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences

(to January 1978)

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 17

2 Bibliographies and Bibliographical

Tools 18

3 Historiography and Historical

Method 18

4 Biographical Collections 18

5 Encyclopedias and Compendia of

General Scientific Knowledge 19

B. Science and its History from Special

Points of View

10 Philosophy of Science and Methods

of Science 19

11 Scientific Institutions 22

12 Scientific Instruments and Special

Techniques 23

13 Scientific Education and History of

Education 23

14 Social Relations of Science 23

15 Humanistic Relations of Science 26

C. Histories of the Special Sciences

20 Philosophy 27

21 Mathematics 28

22 Physical Sciences

a. Astronomy 29

b. Physics 30

c. Chemistry 32

23 Earth Sciences

a. Geology and geophysics 33

b. Geography, cartography, and

geodesy 33

c. Oceanography 34

d. Travel, exploration, and navigation 34

e. Mineralogy and crystallography 34

f. Meteorology 34

24 Biological Sciences

a. Biology in general 35

b. Microscopy and microbiology 36

c. Zoology 36

d. Botany 37

e. Anatomy and physiology 37

f. Physical anthropology 38

g. Agriculture 38

h. Heredity and evolution 38

25 Sciences of Man 39

26 Medicine and the Medical Sciences

a. Medical history 42

b. Pharmacy 45

27 Technology 46

28 Pseudo-sciences and Paradoxes 49

29 Ancillary Disciplines 49

D. Chronological Classification

30 Prehistory and Primitive Societies 50

31 Ancient Near East 50

32 Classical Antiquity

a. General works; philosophy 51

b. Exact sciences 53

c. Natural history 54

d. Pseudo-science and experiment 55

e. Technology, travel, exploration,

and geography 55

f. Medicine and health 55

33.1 Middle Ages, from c. A.D. 500 to

c. 1450






and geography 60


33.2 Middle Ages, Byzantium, from

c. A.D. 500 to c. 1450 62

34 Islamic and Related Cultures, from

c. A.D. 500 to c. 1600






and geography 64


35.1 India, to c. 1600






and geography 66




35.2 The Far East, to c. 1600






and geography 67


35.3 Pre-Columbian America, to c. 1500





e. Technology, travel, exploration

and geography 68

f. Medicine and Health 68

36 Renaissance and Reformation,

1450-1600






and geography 73


37 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries


b. Mathematics 80

c. Physical sciences 81

d. Earth sciences 86

e. Biological sciences 87

f. Sciences of man 89

g. Medicine 90

h. Technology 93

i. Pseudo-sciences and paradoxes 95

j. Ancillary disciplines 95

38 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


b. Mathematics 99





g. Medicine 117

h. Technology 121



39 Contemporary Sciences, from

c. 1914


b. Mathematics 125





g. Medicine 134

h. Technology 135



k. Historians and philosophers of

science 136

BOOK REVIEWS 139

INDEX 165



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