Books from the Attic

I am reviewing my HOS books, looking for some survey and basic ones to help with my end of the year project (although I continue to bounce back and forth between historical video games and a Sci Rev website). I thought I would document by photo what I pulled down out of the attic. I put a tag with the publication date on the front.

Notice three things. 

1) I only pulled down things that were a survey across a time period. On that front, I'm also looking for VERY introductory HOS material, not an upper level, junior or senior level course.   An freshman level course can be made deeper and broader more easily, than an upper level course can be whittled down.

2) My last book was copyrighted in 1999. So I have QUITE a gap in new a current research. So the next couple of steps is going to be hunting around for more recently published HOS or HOT (History of Technology) survey textbooks (I'm pretty sure that Shapin has one--I'm going to go ahead and purchase that one). 

3) Also, I want to include some HOT, and my library certainly lacks that. So, I'll look for those too.

The smaller stack from the attic. This stack is missing Kuhn and Merchant, but that's because they live on the bookshelf in the living room, not in the attic.

 E.A. Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, 1924 (I'm wondering what the copyright status on this one is? I think it was extended in 1932, putting it into that complicated category.)

 D.L. Hurd and J.J. Kipling, The Origins and Growth of Physical Science, Volume 1, 1958

David Knowles, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, 1962

Lynn White, Medieval Technology & Social Change, 1962

Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962 (A pivotal work that WILL be discussed, used, etc in a survey class.)

G.E.R. Lloyd, Ancient Culture and Society - Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, 1970

Richard S. Westfall's The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics, 1971

Robert Mandrou's From Humanism to Science, 1480 - 1700, 1973

Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, 1980

Look at how special!!

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 1983

Londa Schiebinger's The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, 1989 

Margaret C. Jacob, The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution, 1988

David C. Lindberg's The Beginnings of Western Science, 1992 (This is the good survey text that I have. As part of this project, I may be rereading this for the final project, just to get a sense of layout. However, ending in 1450, I really need another supplemental text to finish the Sci Revolution and a lot of these bleed over into the Enlightenment.)

Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth, 1994

Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, 1995

John Henry, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, 1997 (This is a quick little text that I will reread as well.)

H. Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, 1994 (A history of the history written about the Scientific Rev, I figured just looking at the table of contents would be helpful, but I think I have those. I'm really looking for post 1990s.)

Edited by W. Clark, J. Golinski, and S. Schaffer, The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, 1999 (This includes so really good topical pieces on newer research.)