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New additions / updated January 13, 2002.

PART ONE
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


new additions
Added in 2002 --

Burns, William E. The scientific revolution: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Haines, Catharine M.C., and Helen M. Stevens. International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Krapp, Kristine M. Notable Black American scientists. Detroit: Gale Research,1999.

Lecourt, Dominique. Dictionnaire d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1999.

Added in 2001 --

Beck, Raymond W. A chronology of microbiology in historical context. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2000.

Bibliographia physico-mathematica hispanica, 1475-1900. Victor Navarro Brotóns, et. al. Valencia: Universitat de València-C.S.I.C.: Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación "López Piñero", 2000.

Catalogue of the civil engineering history collection. Compiled by Marjorie Carter. London: Imperial College, Civil Engineering Department, 1991.

Hamel, Jürgen, and Max Caspar. Bibliographia Kepleriana: Verzeichnis der gedruckten Schriften von und über Johannes Kepler: im Auftrag der Kepler-Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Ergänzungsband zur zweiten Auflage. München: Beck, 1998.

Hessenbruch, Arne, editor. Reader's guide to the history of science. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

Krebs, Robert E. Scientific laws, principles, and theories: a reference guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Rahman, Abdur, et al.Science and technology in medieval India: a bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1982.

Rojas, Paul. Encyclopedia of computers and computer history. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

Science and technology in 18th-century America. Constance Carter, et. al. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Science and Technology Division, Reference Section, 1999.

Sebastian, Anton. A dictionary of the history of science. New York: Parthenon Publishing, 2001.

A station favorable to the pursuits of science: primary materials in the history of mathematics at the United States Military Academy. Joe Albree, et. al. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2000.

Stoffel, Jean-François, Stanley L. Jaki. Pierre Duhem et ses doctorands: bibliographie de la littérature primaire et secondaire. Louvain-la-Neuve : Centre Interfacultaire d'Étude en Histoire des Sciences, 1996.

Stoffel, Jean-François. Bibliographie d'Alexandre Koyré. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2000.

Stoffel, Jean-François. L'histoire des sciences et des techniques, la philosophie des sciences dans la "Recherche", "Pour la science", "Revue d'histoire des sciences", "Revue des questions scientifiques": 1937-1990: bibliographie. Bruxelles: Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Centre d'histoire contemporaine, 1991.

Tselos, George D. and Colleen Wickey. A guide to archives and manuscript collections in the history of chemistry and chemical technology. Philadelphia: Center for History of Chemistry, 1987.

Turner, Gerald L'Estrange and D. J. Bryden. A classified bibliography on the history of scientific instruments. London: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Scientific Instrument Commission, 1997.

Simcock, A.V. A supplement to a classified bibliography on the history of scientific instruments. Oxford: Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science; Museum of the History of Science, 1998.

Added in 2000 --

Index to scientific names of organisms cited in the Linnaean dissertations: together with a synoptic bibliography of the dissertations and a concordance for selected editions. Edited by Roger W. Kiger, Charlotte A. Tancin, and Gavin D. R. Bridson. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1999.

Dauben, Joseph Warren and Albert C. Lewis. The history of mathematics from antiquity to the present: a selective annotated bibliography. Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2000. Revised edition on CD-ROM.

Sciences of the earth: an encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena. Edited by George A. Good. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Atkins, Stephen E. Historical encyclopedia of atomic energy. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Die grossen Physiker. Two volumes. Edited by Karl von Meyenn. Munich: Beck, 1997

The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Two volumes. Edited by Joyce Harvey and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. New York: Routledge, 2000.

History of telecommunications technology: an annotated bibliography. Christopher Sterling and George Shiers. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Sarjeant, William Antony S. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography from the origins to 1978. Supplement 2, 1985-1993. Additions. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 1996. 3 vols.

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.

Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution: from Copernicus to Newton. Edited by Wilbur Applebaum. New York: Garland Pub., 2000.

The history of science in the United States: an encyclopedia. Edited by Marc Rothenberg. New York: Garland, 2000.


Added in 1999 --

Abattouy, Mohamed. The history of Arabic sciences: a selected bibliography. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institute feur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 1996.

Amrine, Frederick. Goethe in the history of science. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998.

Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Edited by Richard Olson, associate editor, Roger Smith. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. 5 volumes.

Carlisle, Rodney P. The relationship of science and technology: a bibliographic guide. Washington D.C.: Joint publication of the Navy Laboratory/Center Coordinating Group and Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy, 1997.

Creese, Mary R. S. Ladies in the laboratory?: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. With contributions by Thomas M. Creese. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

A guide to experimental particle physics literature, 1991-1996. V.V. Ezhela et.al. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1996.

Hayward, James L. Creation/Evolution Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Howsam, Leslie. Scientists since 1660: a bibliography of biographies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Smith, Roger. Biographies of scientists: an annotated bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Smith, Roger. Popular physics and astronomy: an annotated bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Supplement to the Guide to the archival collections in the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics. College Park: American Institute of Physics, 1998.

Who's who in theology and science: an international biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and organizations interested in the interaction of theology and science. Compiled and edited by the John Templeton Foundation. New York: Continuum, 1996.


Added in 1998 --

Lee, J. A. N. Computer pioneers. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.

Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook. edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann and Rose K. Rose. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Notable twentieth-century scientists. Edited by Emily J. McMurray, Jane Kelly Kosek and Roger M. Valade III. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Four volumes.

Nebeker, Frederik. Astronomy and the geophysical tradition in the United States in the nineteenth century: a guide to the manuscript sources in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: The Society, 1991.

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.

Hetherington, Barry. A chronicle of pre-telescopic astronomy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Roberts, Verne L. and Ivy Trent. Bibliotheca mechanica. New York City: J.A. Hill, 1991.

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.

Oort, Jan Hendrik. The letters and papers of Jan Hendrik Oort: as archived in the University Library, Leiden. Compiled by J.K. Katgert-Merkelijn. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

A directory of history of medicine collections. Compiled by Elizabeth Tunis. Seventh edition. Bethesda: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 1997.

Gippert, Jost. Index Galenicus: Wortformenindex zu den Schriften Galens. Dettelbach: J.H. Roll, 1997. Two volumes.

Medical discoveries. Volume 1, A-C : medical breakthroughs and the people who developed them. Volume 2, D-L. Volume 3, M-Z. Edited by Bridget Travers and Fran Locher Freiman. Detroit: UXL, 1997.

Morton, Leslie T. and Robert J. Moore. A chronology of medicine and related sciences. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.


Added in 1997 --

Summers, Anne. How to find source materials: British Library collections on the history and culture of science, technology and medicine. London: The British Library, Science Reference and Information Service, 1996.

Rare books and special collections in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Ellen B. Wells and Leslie K. Overstreet. Washington, D.C.: The Libraries, c1995.

Harper, Peter. Guide to the manuscript papers of British scientists catalogued by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre and the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists 1973-1993. Bath : NCUACS, 1993.

Bibliography on the history of chemistry and chemical technology, 17th to the 19th century. Edited by Valentin Wehefritz; with the assistance of Zoltan Kovats. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1994. Three volumes.

Beretta, Marco. Bibliotheca lavoisieriana: the catalogue of the library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1995.

Hahn, Roger. The new calendar of the correspondence of Pierre Simon LaPlace. Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.

History of astronomy: an encyclopedia. Edited by John Lankford. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

The Cambridge dictionary of scientists. David Millar and others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century. James H. Kessler and others. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1996.

Women and science: an annotated bibliography. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie with Kerry Lynne Meek. New York: Garland, 1996.


Added in 1996 --

Biographical dictionary of the history of technology. Edited by Ian McNeil and Lance Day. London: Routledge, 1996.

Cortada, James W. A bibliographic guide to the history of computer applications, 1950-1990. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Cortada, James W. Second bibliographic guide to the history of computing, computers, and the information processing industry. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Elliott, Clark A. History of science in the United States: a chronology and research guide. New York: Garland, 1996.

Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science. Edited by Roshdi Rashed in collaboration with Regis Morelon. Three volumes. London: Routledge, 1996.

Jayawardene, S. A. The scientific revolution: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1996.

Kantha, Sachi Sri. An Einstein dictionary. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.

Moore, Keith. A guide to the archives and manuscripts of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society, 1995.

Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Particle physics: one hundred years of discoveries: an annotated chronological bibliography. V.V. Ezhela, et al. Woodbury: American Institute of Physics, 1996.


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