Sources for Research and Writing in the History of the Scientific Revolution:

Don't overlook such major recent sources as

• Hellyer, Michael, ed. The Scientific Revolution: Essential Readings. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2003 [View sample chapter] [see table of contents]
• Shapin, Stephen, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) [Read about this book at Amazon.com]
• Dear, Peter, ed. The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe: Readings from Isis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). [Read about this book.]

For more in-depth treatments of themes involving natural philosophy in the 16th and 17th centuries, please turn to readings mentioned in:

• Richard Westfall's survey of literature on the Scientific Revolution (1986)
• The Scientific Revolution [Cambridge University, circa 2002]
• The Historiography of the History of Science
• Sources on the Scientific Revolution [see Topic 3]
• The Scientific Revolution [seminar by Prof. Paula Findlen, Stanford University, 2003]
• Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution [UCLA, 2003-04]
• The Scientific Revolution: Primary Sources [includes secondary sources as well...]
• The Historiography of the Sciences [not on the Scientific Revolution alone]

27 April 2005

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