A Short History of Science

A SHORT LIST OF REFERENCE BOOKS

Particular attention may be called to the important and valuable publications of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, prepared by Aksel G. S. Josephson: viz. A List of Books on the History of Science (1911); Supplement to the Same (1916); and A List of Books on the History of Industry and Industrial Arts (1915).

A. GENERAL

The Seven Liberal Arts. A study in
medieval culture.

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific
Men.

(See Lubbock.)

The Advancement of Learning.
(See Little.)

A History of Freedom of Thought.

Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwickelung und in ihrem Zusammenhange. 4 vols. (1910-1913.)

Aus der Werkstatt grosser Forscher. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science.

History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.

Biographies of Scientific Men.

The Order of Nature.

Historic Inventions.

The Spanish People.

Advance of Science in the Last Half
Century.

Revue consacrée à l'histoire de la science.
(March 1913-June 1914.) Edited by
G. Sarton.

Ker, W. P.

Lee, Sidney.

✓ Libby, W.

Little, A. G.
Lubbock, J.

Merz, J. T.

The Dark Ages.

Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Cen

tury.

Introduction to the History of Science.
Roger Bacon, Commemoration Essays.
Fifty Years of Science.

A History of European Thought in the
Nineteenth Century.

Nineteenth Century, The. A review of progress during the past one

Whewell, W.

White, A. D.

Williams, H. S.

Allman, G. J. Apollonius of Perga.. Aristotle.

Baikie, James. Breasted, J. H.

Butcher, S. H.
Davidson, Thomas.
Euclid.
Fairbanks, A.
Freeman, K. E.
Frontinus.
Galen.

Gibbon, Edward.
Gomperz, Theodor.

Gow, James. Grote, George.

Hawes, C. H. and H. Heath, Thomas L.

Jastrow, M. Lewes, G. H.

History of Scientific Ideas. Being the first part of the philosophy of the inductive sciences. (1858.)

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom.

A History of Science.

Nineteenth Century Science.

B. ANCIENT SCIENCE

Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid. Treatise on Conic Sections. (c. 220 B.C.) On the Parts of Animals; on Generation, etc.

Sea Kings of Crete.

Ancient Times: a history of the early world.

Some Aspects of the Greek Genius.
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals.
Elements. (c. 300 B.C.)

First Philosophers of Greece.
Schools of Hellas.

The Waterworks of Rome. (c. 100 A.D.)
On the Natural Faculties. (c. 180 A.D.)
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Greek Thinkers: a history of ancient
philosophy.

A Short History of Greek Mathematics.
Plato and the Other Companions of
Socrates.

Crete the Forerunner of Greece.
Apollonius of Perga.

Archimedes.

Aristarchus of Samos.

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Diophantus of Alexandria.

The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria. Aristotle; a Chapter in the History of Science.

Arthur, James.

Ball, R. S.

Ball, W. W. R.

Berry, Arthur.

C. MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

(Mathematics, Astronomy, Mechanics)

Bibliotheca Mathematica.

Brewster, David.

Bryant, W. W.

Cajori, Florian.

Cantor, Moritz.

Chasles, Michel.

Time and its Measurement.
Great Astronomers.

A Primer of the History of Mathematics.
A Short Account of the History of Mathe-
matics.

A Short History of Astronomy.

Zeitschrift für Geschichte der mathemati

schen Wissenschaften.

Martyrs of Science.

Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton.

A History of Astronomy.

A History of Elementary Mathematics.
A History of Mathematics.

A History of the Logarithmic Slide-rule
and Allied Instruments.

The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States. Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik. Vols. I-IV. (1892-1898.) Aperçu historique sur l'origine et le dévéloppement des méthodes en géométrie.

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