HIST 446/646     History of Science Since 1700

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  NOTE: Revision 1 2/21/2006

Texts:  The following books are required for the course and are on sale at the University Bookstore.

Mason, Stephen F. A History of the Sciences. New York:  Collier Books, 1962.

Bowler, Peter J., and Iwan Rhys Morus. Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.  ISBN 0226068617

(Please use Bowler as your main text and guide to the entire course, supplemented, if you wish, by Mason.  Each of these books provides an overview of the course in one author's voice.  Mason represents a somewhat older version, and Bowler represents the latest scholarship.)

The following books are required, and provide in-depth coverage of particular centuries and topics.  While you will not be expected to master them, they will be very helpful for understanding the lectures and for researching your papers.

Coleman, William. Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation.  Cambridge History of Science Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Hankins, Thomas L. Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge History of Science Series.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Harman, P. M. Energy, Force, and Matter: the Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics. Cambridge History of Science Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Williams, Trevor I. Science: a History of Discovery in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press; 1990.  NOTE: Out of Print, but still very useful.

Revised 02/22/06

HIST 446 Spring 2006 Tatarewicz