Paul’s Lists: History of Science

 

I’m intrigued by the history of science and scientific thought, and I have a few volumes in my library that I’d like to share:

The List

• The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 by David C. Lindberg
• Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe by Nicholas Nicastro
• The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by O. Neugebauer
• The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans
• The Origins of Scientific Thought: From Anaximander to Proclus, 600 B.C.–500 A.D. by Giorgio de Santillana
• A Short History of Astronomy: From Earliest Times Through the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Berry
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
• The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar by Isaac Asimov

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