Bibliography

Historiography of science

H. Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, University of Chicago Press 1994 - Discussion on the origins of modern science has been going on for more than two hundred years. Cohen provides an excellent overview. Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought, Belknap Press 1985 Michel Serres,(ed.), A History of Scientific Thought, Blackwell Publishers 1995 Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century, John Krige (Editor), Dominique Pestre (Editor), Taylor & Francis 2003, 941pp The Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge University Press Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science, 2003 Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 2002

History of science as a discipline

J. A. Bennett, 'Museums and the Establishment of the History of Science at Oxford and Cambridge', British Journal for the History of Science 30, 1997, 29–46 Dietrich von Engelhardt, Historisches Bewußtsein in der Naturwissenschaft : von der Aufklärung bis zum Positivismus, Freiburg  : Alber, 1979 A.-K. Mayer, 'Setting up a Discipline: Conflicting Agendas of the Cambridge History of Science Committee, 1936–1950.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 31, 2000