Table of Contents:
BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS
SPECIALIZED INDEXES FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS,AND CHRONOLOGIES
BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
GUIDES TO SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS
LIBRARY, ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
PART TWO
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Brush, Stephen G. The history of modern science:
a guide to the second scientific revolution, 1800-1950 Ames: Iowa State University
Press, 1988.
CCL Q125 B84 1988
KSL Q125 B68 1988
Companion to the history of modern science. Edited by R.C. Olby.
London: Routledge, 1990.
SML Stacks Q125 C565 1990
Corsi, Pietro. Information sources in the history of science and medicine.
Boston: Butterworth Scientific, 1983.
SML Stacks R118.2 I53 1983
MED/HIST Hist R118.2I53 1983
Durbin, Paul. A guide to the culture of science, technology, and medicine.
New York: Free Press, 1980.
KSL Q175.5 G84 1980
MED Q175.5G851980
Hessenbruch, Arne, editor. Reader's guide to the history of science.
London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
KSL Reference Q125 R43 2000
(LC)
SML Reference Q125 R43 2000
Krebs, Robert E. Scientific laws, principles, and theories: a reference
guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.
KSL Reference Q158.5 K74X
2001 (LC)
Sarton, George. A guide to the history of science: a first guide for the
study of the history of science, with introductory essays on science and tradition.
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1952.
SML Stacks: Q125 S333
CCL Reference: Ref Q 125 S333
KSL Q125 S32:
Teaching in the history of science: resources and strategies. Philadelphia:
History of Science Society, 1989.
SML Q126.9 T37 1989
also of interest:
Jayawardene, S.A. Reference books for the historian of science. London:
Science Museum, 1982.
KSL Z7405 H6 J38 1982 (LC)
MED/HIST Hist Reference 2
ZQ125 J29 1982
Elliott, Clark A. History of science in the United States: a chronology
and research guide. New York: Garland, 1996.
KSL Reference Q125 E45X 1996
MED/HIST Hist Reference 10
Q125 E45 1996
Isis. Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. 1-- (1913 -- ). Very useful bibliography published every January as a special issue of Isis. Also see the cumulative bibliographies from Isis, below.
SML Stacks A79 I54
KSL Periodicals Q1 I83
Isis Cumulative Bibliography: A Bibliography of the History of Science
Formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65. Edited by Magda Whitrow.
London: Mansell, 1971-1984
SML CHECK THIS ONE
MED/HIST Hist Ref 2
ZQ125 + W35
KSL Reference
Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1966-1975: A Bibliography of the History
of Science Formed from Isis Critical Bibliographies 91-100. Indexing Literature
Published From 1965 Through 1974. Edited by John Neu. London: Mansell, 1980-1985.
SML CHECK THIS ONE
KSL Reference Z7405 H6 +118
1980 (LC)
Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1976-1985: A Bibliography of the History
of Science Formed From Isis Critical Bibliographies 101-110. Indexing Literature
Published From 1975 Through 1984. Edited by John Neu. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.
SML CHECK THIS ONE
KSL Reference Z7405 H6 +12
(LC)
Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1986-1995: A Bibliography of the History
of Science Formed from the Annual Isis Current Bibliographies. Edited by John
Neu. Canton: Published for the History of Science Society by Science History
Publications, 1997. Four volumes.
KSL Reference Z7495 H6 I18
Suppl.3 (LC)
Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza. Istituto e Museo di
Storia della Scienza. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1985 --.
SML Stacks Z7407 I8 B52
Bibliography of the history of medicine. National Library of Medicine.
Bethesda: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service,
National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine.
KSL Z6660 B52 (LC)
MED/HIST Hist Ref 2 ZR131
A1 B5
Dictionaries
Dictionary of the history of science. Edited by William F. Bynum, E. J. Browne, and Roy Porter. London: Macmillan Press, 1981.
SML Reference Q125 D45
CCL Reference ref 24 Q125 D45
MED/HIST hist ref 24 Q125 D45 1981
KSL Reference Q125 B98 1981
Durbin, Paul T. Dictionary of concepts in the philosophy of science.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
SML Reference Q174.7 D87 1988
Fetzer, James H. and Robert F. Almeder. Glossary of epistemology/philosophy
of science. First edition. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
SML Stacks BD150 F47X 1993
(LC)
Kantha, Sachi Sri. An Einstein dictionary. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
SML QC16 E5 K36X 1996
Sebastian, Anton. A dictionary of the history of science. New York:
Parthenon Publishing, 2001.
SML Reference Q124.8 D525X
2001
KSL Reference Q124.8 D525X
2001 (LC)
Encyclopedias
Atkins, Stephen E. Historical encyclopedia of atomic energy. Westport:
Greenwood Press, 2000.
KSL QC772 A87X 2000
Companion encyclopedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical
sciences. Two volumes. Edited by I. Grattan-Guinness. London: Routledge,
1994.
KSL Reference QA21 C645X 1994
MED/HIST Hist QA21 C645 1994
MATH Reference G773c
Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine. Two volumes. Edited
by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. London: Routledge, 1993.
MED/HIST Reference Hist Ref
19 R133 E5 1993
An encyclopaedia of the history of technology. Edited by Ian McNeil.
London: Routledge, 1990.
SML REFERENCE T15 E53 1990
(LC)
Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science. Edited by Roshdi Rashed
in collaboration with Regis Morelon. Three volumes. London: Routledge, 1996.
SML Reference Q127 A5 E53X
1996
Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution: from Copernicus to Newton.
Edited by Wilbur Applebaum. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
SML Reference Q125 E53X 2000
History of astronomy: an encyclopedia. Edited by John Lankford. New
York: Garland Pub., 1997.
SML Reference QB15 H624X 1997
The history of science and religion in the western tradition: an encyclopedia.
Gary B. Ferngren, general editor; Edward J. Larson, Darrel W. Amundsen, co-editors;
Anne-Marie E. Nakhla, assistant editor. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.
DIV BL245 H57 2000
The history of science in the United States: an encyclopedia. Edited
by Marc Rothenberg. New York: Garland, 2000.
MED/HIST Reference 19 Q127
U6 H57 2001
KSL Q127 U6 H57X 2000 (LC)
Instruments of science: an historical encyclopedia. Edited by Robert
Bud and Deborah Jean Warner. New York: Garland, in association with Science
Museum, London, and National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,
1998.
MED/HIST Hist Q184.5 I57 1998
KSL Reference Q184.5 I57X
1998 (LC)
McGrew, Roderick E. Encyclopedia of medical history. New York : McGraw-Hill,
1985.
MED/HIST Reference Hist Ref
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Mills, John FitzMaurice. Encyclopedia of antique scientific instruments.
New York: Facts on File, 1983.
KSL Q184.5 M54 1983
Mount, Ellis. Milestones in science and technology: the ready reference
guide to discoveries, inventions, and facts. Second edition. Phoenix:
Oryx Press, 1994.
SML Reference Q199+M68 1987
KSL Q199+M68 1987
Chronologies
Beck, Raymond W. A chronology of microbiology in historical context.
Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2000.
KSL QR21 B43X 2000
MED/HIST Hist QR21 B43 2000
Desmond, Kevin. The Harwin chronology of inventions, innovations and discoveries:
from Pre-history to the present day. London: Constable, 1987.
SML Stacks T15 D473 (LC)
Elliott, Clark A. History of science in the United States: a chronology
and research guide. New York: Garland, 1996.
KSL Reference Q125 E45X 1996
MED/HIST Hist Reference 19
Q125 E45 1996
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A chronology of the history of science, 1450-1900.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
SML Reference Q125 G39 1987
KSL Q125 G39 1987
Hellemans, Alexander. Timetables of science: a chronology of the most
important people and events in the history of science. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1988.
SML Stacks Q125+H46 1988
Hetherington, Barry. A chronicle of pre-telescopic astronomy. New
York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
SML QB29 H35X 1996
The history of science and technology: a narrative chronology. New
York: Facts on File, 1988.
SML Reference Q125+S43713
1988
Morton, Leslie T. and Robert J. Moore. A chronology of medicine and related
sciences. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.
MED HIST/ Hist Reference
7 R133 M717 1997
Parkinson, Claire L. Breakthroughs: a chronology of great achievements
in science and mathematics, 1200-1930. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.
KSL Q125 P327 1985
Particle physics: one hundred years of discoveries: an annotated chronological
bibliography. V.V. Ezhela, et. al. Woodbury: American Institute of Physics,
1996.
SML Z7144 NB P35X 1996 (LC)
KSL Z7144 NB P35X 1996
Thompson, Susan J. A chronology of geological thinking from Antiquity
to 1899. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1988.
GEO QE11 T47 1988 (LC)
American chemists and chemical engineers. Edited by Wyndham D. Miles. Washington: American Chemical Society, 1976-1994.
KSLQD21 A43
MED/HIST Reference QD21 A43
Barr, Ernest Scott. An index to biographical fragments in unspecialized
scientific journals. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
SML Stacks Q141 B29
A Biographical dictionary of scientists. Fourth edition. Edited by
Trevor I. Williams. Glasgow: Harper Collins, 1994.
KSL Reference Q141 W55 1982
MED/HIST Reference Hist Ref
13 Q141 B528 1982
The Biographical dictionary of scientists. Gen ed. David Abbott. New York: P. Edrick Books, 1983-1986
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P. Bedrick Books, 1983.
MED/HIST Reference Hist Ref 13 QH26 B54 1983
KSL REFERENCE QH26 B54 1984 - The Biographical dictionary of scientists: Chemists New
York: P.Edrick Books, 1986.
KSL Reference QD21 B48 1984 - The Biographical dictionary of scientists: Mathematicians New
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KSL Reference QD21 B48 1984 - The Biographical dictionary of scientists: Physicists New York:
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KSL Reference QC15 B56 1984
SML reference T39 B49X 1996 (LC)
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Edited by John Daintith.
Second edition. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1994.
KSL Q141 B53 1981
MED/HIST Hist Reference 13
B55 Q141 1981
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Edited by Richard Olson,
associate editor, Roger Smith. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. 5 volumes.
KSL Q141 B53 1983
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Q141 B53 1994
The Cambridge dictionary of scientists. David Millar and others.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
SML Q141 C128X 1996
KSL Reference Q141 C128X
1996
Cortada, James. Historical dictionary of data processing-- biographies.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
SML Stacks QA76.15 C66 1987
Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman,
Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.
SML Reference R153 D53 1984
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SML Reference Q141 +E53
MED/HIST Reference Hist Ref
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Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century. James
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KSL Reference Q141 D535X
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through the nineteenth centuries. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
SML Reference Q141 +E37
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Elliott, Clark. Biographical index to American science: the seventeenth
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SML Reference Q141 E373 1990
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A historical catalogue of scientists and
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KSL Reference Q141 G38 1984
KSL Q141 G38 1984
Howsam, Leslie. Scientists since 1660: a bibliography of biographies.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
MED/HIST Hist Reference 13
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Lee, J. A. N. Computer pioneers. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society
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SML QA76.2 A2 L44X 1995
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KSL Referemce Z7404 S64X 1998
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MED/SREF Regerence 13 Q141
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from antiquity to the present. Edited by Allen G. Debus. Chicago: Marquis-Who's
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SML Q141 C69X 1998
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KSL QD21 W62X 1993
Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook.
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