Science, Technology and Society, 1400 to Present (HI2D5): Bibliography

Primary Sources

Scientific treatises in English, such as Galileo Galilei’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
Scientific articles such as those available in the online archive of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Digitised manuscript collections, such those on the webpages of the Board of Longitude Project (18th -century astronomy and navigation), the Darwin Correspondence Project (19th -century natural history), the Newton Project (17-18th -century astronomy and alchemy), and the Casebooks Project (16th -century medicine and magic).
Works of film and literature, such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
Popular periodicals, such as the Gentleman’s Magazine (18th century), the Penny Magazine (19th century), and Nature (20th century)
Archival material at the Modern Records Centre, such as the holdings on 19th- and 20th -century brewing and on 20th-century operations research.
Rare books held at the Warwick Library, such as the collection of early modern dictionaries and encyclopaedias
Demonstrations of historical experiments and operations carried out by Poskett and Bycroft on their own equipment, eg. demonstrations of 18th-century electrical experiments and early 20th-century printing technology.

Secondary Sources

Adas, Michael, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1989)
Agar, Jon, Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Polity, 2012)
Agar, Jon, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003)
Arnold, David, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Bowler, Peter and Iwan Morus, Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2005)
Bynum, William, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Chadarevian, Soraya de, Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Chelma, Karine, The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Clark, William, Jan Golinski and Simon Schaffer (eds), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Cohen, H. Floris, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994)
Cohen, H. Floris. How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (Amsterdam University Press, 2010)
Cooter, Roger, The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Cuomo, Serafina, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Cunningham, Andrew, The Anatomical Renaissance: the Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (Aldershot, 1997)
Daston, Lorraine, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1988)
Daston, Lorraine, and Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (New York: Zone Books, 1998)
Dear, Peter, Revolutionizing the Sciences (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
Edgerton, David, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (London: Profile, 2006)
Elman, Benjamin, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Harvard, MA, 2009)
Frängsmyr, Tore, J. L Heilbron, and Robin E Rider, eds., The Quantifying Spirit in the 18th Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Fyfe, Aileen, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Publishing in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004)
Galison, Peter and Lorraine Daston, Objectivity (New York: Zone Books, 2007)
Golinski, Jan, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Gordin, Micahel et al (eds), How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013)
Gordin, Michael, Karl Hall and Alexei Kojevnikov, Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008)
Heilbron, John. Elements of Early Modern Physics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Heilbron, John. The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Henry, John. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997)
Jardine, Nick, James Secord and Emma Spary (eds), Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Kuhn, Thomas, The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985)
Kusukawa, Sachiko, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Latour, Bruno, The Pasteurization of France (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1993)
Lightman, Bernard (ed.), Victorian Science in Context (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997)
Lindberg, David, and Ronald Numbers (eds), The Cambridge History of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), vols 1-7
Lloyd, G. E. R., and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
Long, Pamela. Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Science, 1400-1600 (Oregon State University Press, 2011)
Marks, Lara, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill (Yale: Yale University Press, 2001)
Marsden, Ben, and Crosbie Smith, Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
Mitchell, Timothy, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011)
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge University Press, 1954-)
Pickstone, John, Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
Pomata, Gianna and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds, Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
Qureshi, Sadiah, Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Raj, Kapil, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)
Rashed, Rosdi, Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science (Taylor and Francis, 1996)
Roberts, Lissa, Simon Schaffer, and Peter Dear, eds., The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (Amsterdam: Koninkliijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007)
Robson, Eleanor, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
Rose, Nikolas, Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (London: Free Association Books, 1989)
Schaffer, Simon and Steven Shapin, Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)
Selin, Helaine, ed. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non Western Cultures. Third edition (Dordrecht: Springer Reference, 2016)
Shapin, Steven, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
Shapin, Steven, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Wolfe, Audra, Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology and the State in Cold War America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2013)
Wootton, David, The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (London: Penguin, 2015)
Worboys, Michael, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900 (Cambridge, 2000)