Histories of Science, Technology, Medicine, etc.

Science and Technology

• General
  • Hankins, Thomas L. and Robert J. Silverman. Instruments and the Imagination, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. 337p.
  • Huff, Toby E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 409p.
  • Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600B.C. to A.D. 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 455p.
• Asia
  • China
    • Temple, Robert. The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. 254p.
• Africa
  • Rashed, Roshdi, ed. Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, New York: Routledge, 1996. 3 vols., 1105pp. Volume 1: Astronomy-Theoretical and Applied, Volume 2: Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, Volume 3: Technology, Alchemy and Life Sciences.
• Europe
  • Ancient Greece and Rome
    • French, Roger. Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. London: Routledge, 1994. 357p.
    • Lloyd, G.E.R. The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. 467p.
  • Western Medieval Science
    • Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. 490p.
    • Gimpel, Jean. The Medieval Machine, London: Pimlico, 1992, 2nd ed. 294p.
  • Renaissance Europe
    • Cohen, H.F. The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 662p.
    • Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. 449p.
    • Goodman, David A. and Colin A. Russell. The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. 437p.
    • Pumfrey, Stephen, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski, eds. Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. 331p.
  • Victorian England
    • Chew, Kenneth and Anthony Wilson. Victorian Science and Engineering Portrayed in "The Illustrated London News", Dover, NH: Alan Sutton Publishing, Inc., 1993. 148p.
    • Lightman, Bernard, ed. Victorian Science in Conext, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 489pp.
• North America
  • United States
    • Bourne, Russell. Invention in America, Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1996. 138p.

Medicine

• General
  • Conrad, Lawrence I., Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, Andrew Wear. The Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 556p.
  • Shorter, Edward. A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 436p.
• Ancient Rome
  • Barton, Tamsyn. Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physionomics, and Medicine Under the Roman Empire, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 254p.
• Medieval Europe
  • McVaugh, Michael R. Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1345. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 280p.