Sci. Rev. Secondary (General)1

Sci. Rev. Secondary (General)1

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

Secondary Literature

Compiled by Steven Fontijn Harris

[Caveat lector: Somewhat dated: recent materials not yet added]

Historiography of 'The Scientific Revolution'

Defining Revolutions (Kuhn et al.)

Pre-Conditions (Humanism, Education, Printing, Reformation)

Ptolemy & Copernicus (Astronomy)

Tycho Brahe & Reception of Copernicanism

Kepler

Galileo (Mechanics, The Galileo Affair)

Aristotle & Bacon (Natural Philosophy)

Hermeticism & Magic (Bruno, Hermeticism, 'Yates Thesis')

Descartes (Skepticism)

Gassendi (Atomism & Mechanical Philosophy)

Mathematical Renaissance (Euclidean Geometry)

Newton

Paracelsus & Paracelsianism (Galenic Medicine & Alchemy)

Vesalius (Anatomy)

Harvey (Physiology)

Natural History

Scientific Societies & Learned Journals

Science in the Enlightenment

General Works on 'The Scientific Revolution'

Miscellaneous Topics and Individual Natural Philosophers:

Health & Medicine:

Scientific Instruments:

Technology:

Early Modern Chemistry:

Women in Ancient, Medieval, & Early Modern Science:

Jewish Involvement in Early Modern Science:

Cabinets & Collecting

Scientific Societies

Intelligencers & Editors of Journals

Universal Language Schemes:

Colonial Science

Medieval Mechanics

Miscellaneous (Unsorted)

Historiography of 'The Scientific Revolution'

History & Philosophy of Science:

Barnes, Barry. "Sociological Theories of Scientific Knowledge," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 60-76).

Briskman, Larry. "Rationality, Science and History," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 166-180).

Cohen, I. Bernard. Revolution in Science. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 1985.

Hanson, Norwood Russell. Patterns of Discovery: An Inquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Lauden, Larry. "The History of Science and the Philosophy of Science," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 47-59).

McMullin, Ernan. "The Development of Philosophy of Science, 1600-1900," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 799-815).

Oldroyd, David. The Arch of Knowledge: An Introductory Study of the History and Methodology of Science. New York & London: Methuen, 1986.

Schuster, John A. "The Scientific Revolution," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 217-242).

'Marxist':

Bernal, J.D. Science in History: The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, vol. 2, (1st edition: C.A. Watts & Co., 1954), Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1971.

Hessen, Boris. "Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia," in Science at the Cross Roads, N.I. Bukharin et al., eds. London, 1931, (pp. 151-176).

Zilsel, Edgar. "The Origins of William Gilbert's Scientific Method," J. History of Ideas, 1941, 11: 1-32.

------. "Problems of Empiricism," in The Development of Rationalism and Empiricism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1941, (vol. II, no. 8, pp. 53-94).

------. "The Sociological Roots of Science," Am. J. Sociology, 1942, 47: 544-562.

------. "The Genesis of the Concept of Scientific Progress," J. History of Ideas, 1945, 6:325-345.

Intellectual:

DSB: Koyré.

Cohen, I. Bernard & Marshall Clagett. "Alexandre Koyré (1892-1964)," Isis, 1966, 57: 157-165.

Elkana, Yehuda. "Alexandre Koyré," History and Technology, 1987, 4: 115-148.

Hooykaas, R. "The Rise of Modern Science: When and Why?," Brit. J. Hist. Sci., 1987, 20: 453-473.

Kuhn, Thomas S. "Alexandre Koyré & the History of Science: On an Intellectual Revolution," Encounter, 1970 (Jan.): 67-69.

Sarton, George. "History of Science," in Sarton on the History of Science: Essays by George Sarton, Dorothy Stimson, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962, (pp. 1-14).

Social Construction:

Shapin "Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge," History of Science, 1982, 20: 157-211.

Shapin, Steven & Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. [QC166.S 47 1985]

Defining Revolutions (Kuhn et al.)

Kuhn & His Critics:

Agassi, Joseph. "Kuhn on Revolutions: Demarcation by Textbook," J. Hist. Phil., 1966, 4: ??.

Cohen, I. Bernard. "The 18th-century Origins of the Concept of Revolution," J. History Ideas, 1976, 37: 257-288.

------. Revolution in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985.

Fleck, Ludwik. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, Thaddeus J. Trenn & Robert K. Merton, eds., Fred Bradley & Thaddeus J. Trenn, trans., Foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Galison, Peter. "History, Philosophy, and the Central Metaphor," Science in Context, 1988, 2: 197-212.

Hacking, Ian (ed.). Scientific Revolutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

------. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

------. "Was There a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930?," in The Probabilistic Revolution, Krüger, Daston, Heidelberger, eds. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld und B. Kleine Verlag, 1983, (pp. 45-55 offers critique of Kuhn's notion of 'revolution as applied to 'the Scientific Revolution').

Hall, A. Rupert. "On the Historical Singularity of the Scientific Revolution in the Seventeenth Century," in The Diversity of History: Essays in Honour of Sir Herbert Butterfield, J. H. Elliott & H. G. Koenigsberger, eds. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1970, (pp. 201-221).

------. "On Whiggism," Hist. Sci., 1983, 21: 3-45-59.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

------. "Mathematical versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science," in The Essential Tension. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977, (pp. 31-65).

Lenoir, Timothy. "Practice, Reason, Context: The Dialogue Between Theory and Experiment," Science in Context, 1988, 2: 3-22.

Porter, Roy. "The Scientific Revolution: A Spoke in the Wheel?," in Revolution in History, Roy Porter & Mikulas Teich, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, (pp. 290-316).

Stone, Lawrence. The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972.

Pre-Conditions (Humanism, Education, Printing, Reformation)

Renaissance Humanism & Education:

Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge History of Science Series). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Evans, R.J.W. Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History 1576-1612, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.

Garin, Eugenio. Italian Humanism: Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance, transl. Peter Munz. New York: Harper, 1965.

Haydn, Hiram. The Counter-Renaissance. New York: Harcout, Brace, & World, 1950.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Sarton, George. Six Wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.

------. Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science during the Renaissance (1450-1600), (2nd ed.). New York: Barnes, 1961.

Stone, Lawrence. "The Educational Revolution in England, 1560-1640," Past & Present, 1964, 8: 41-80.

Wightman, W.P.D. Science and the Renaissance, 2 vols. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1962.

------. Science in a Renaissance Society. London: Hutchison, 1972.

European Economy, Voyages of Discovery & Colonization:

Cipolla, Carlo M. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1976.

------. Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1985.

Parry, J.H. The Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715: Trade and Exploration in the Age of the Renaissance. New York: Harper Torchbook, 1966.

Printing:

Clapham, Michael. "Printing," in A History of Technology, (vol. 2), Charles Singer et al., eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, (pp. 377-411).

Drake, Stillman. "Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science Beyond the Universities," Renaissance & Reformation, 1970, 6: 43-52.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. "Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought: A Preliminary Report," Journal of Modern History, 1968, 40: 1-59.

------. "The Advent of Printing and the Problem of the Renaissance," Past & Present, 1969, 45: 19-89.

------. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, (pp. 453-708 on impact of printing on science).

Ong, Walter J., S.J. "System, Space and Intellect in Renaissance Symbolism," Bibliothéque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 18 (1956).

------. Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.

------. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982.

Stillwell, Margaret B. The Awakening of Interest in Science During the First Century of Printing: An Annotated Checklist of First Editions. Los Angeles: Bibliographical Society of America, 1970.

Catholic & Protestant Reformations (Merton Thesis):

Abraham, Gary A. "Misunderstanding the Merton Thesis: A Boundary Dispute between History and Sociology," Isis, 1983, 74: 368-387.

Ashworth, William. "Catholicism and Early Modern Science," in God & Nature, D. Lindberg & R. Numbers, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986,(pp. 136-166).

Bossy, John. "The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe," Past & Present, 1970, 47: 51-70. [Wid.: HP 107.10]

------. "The Social History of Confession in the Age of the Reformation," Trans. Royal Historical Society, 1975, 25: 21-38.

------. "The Mass as a Social Institution, 1200-1700," Past & Present, 1983, 100: 29-61.

------. Christianity in the West, 1400-1700. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Cohen, I. Bernard. Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis, edited, with Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Davidson, N.S. The Counter-Reformation, (Historical Association Studies). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

Delumeau, Jean. Catholicism between Luther & Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation. London: Burns & Oates, 1977.

Dickens, A.G. The Counter Reformation, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1979.

Dillenberger, John. Protestant Thought and Natural Science: A Historical Interpretation. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1960.

Gieryn, Thomas. "Distancing Science from Religion in Seventeenth-Century England," Isis, 1988, 79: 582-593. [Wid.: Sci 65.55]

Hooykaas, R. Religion and the Rise of Modern Science. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972.

Jacob, J.R. & Margaret C. Jacob. "17th-Century Science and Religion: The State of the Argument," Hist. Sci., 1976, 14: 196-207.

Merton, Robert K. Science, Technology & Society in Seventeenth Century England, 2nd ed. New Jersey: Harvester Press, 1970. (1st printed in Osiris, 1938: 4 (2): 360-632).

Rosen, Edward. "Calvin's Attitude Toward Copernicus," J. History Ideas, 1960, 21: 431-441.

Scribner, R.W. The German Reformation. Atlantic Heights, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1986.

Spitz, Lewis W. The Renaissance and Reformation Movements. St. Louis: Concordia, 1971 (2 vols.).

Stimson, Dorothy. "Puritanism and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England," Bulletin of the Institute for the History of Medicine, 1935, 3: 321-334. [Wid.: Sci 3350.20]

Westfall, Richard S. Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1958.

------. "The Rise of Science and the Decline of Orthodox Christianity: A Study of Kepler, Descartes, and Newton," in God & Nature, D. Lindberg & R. Numbers, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Ptolemy & Copernicus (Astronomy)

DSB: (Ancient: Aristarchus, Eudoxus, Ptolemy); Copernicus, Peurbach, Regiomontanus.

Aiton, E.J. "Celestial Spheres and Circles," Hist. Sci., 1981, 19: 75-114.

Armitage, Agnus. Copernicus: The Founder of Modern Astronomy, 2nd ed. New York: Barnes, 1962.

Beer, Arthur K. (ed.). Copernicus, Yesterday and Today. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975.

Berry, Arthur. A Short History of Astronomy, (reprint of 1898 edition). New York: Dover, 1961.

Bienowska, Barbara (ed.). The Scientific World of Copernicus. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973.

Brackenridge, J. Bruce. "Kuhn, Paradigms, and Astronomy," Proceedings Am. Philosophical Society, 1985, 129 (4): 133-455.

Crowe, Michael J. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1990.

Dreyer, J.L.E. A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, (reprint of 1906 ed.). New York: Dover, 1953.

Gingerich, Owen (ed.). The Nature of Scientific Discovery. Washington: Smithsonian Museum Press, 1975.

------. "'Crisis' versus Aesthetics in the Copernican Revolution," Vistas in Astronomy, 1975, 17: 85-95.

------. "Copernicus and the Impact of Printing," Vistas in Astronomy, 1975, 17: 201-218.

------. "Did Copernicus Own a Debt to Aristarchus?," J. History Astronomy, 1985, 16: 37-42.

------. "Copernicus's De Revolutionibus: An Example of Renaissance Scientific Printing," in Print and Culture in the Renaissance: Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe, Gerald P. Tyson, Sylvia S. Wagonheim, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986.

------. Copernicus, (Past Masters Series). Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Grant, Edward C. "Late Medieval Thought, Copernicus, and the Scientific Revolution," J. History Ideas, 1962, 23: 197-220.

------. "Celestial Perfection from the Middle Ages to the Late Seventeenth Century," in Science, Religion, and Worldviews: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, M. J. Osler, ed. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1985, (pp. 137-162).

Johnson, Francis R. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England, (2nd ed.). New York: Octagon Books, 1968.

Knoll, Paul. "The Faculty of Arts at the University of Cracow at the End of the 15th Century," in The Copernican Achievement, R. Westman, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, (pp. 137-156).

Koestler, Arthur. The Sleepwalkers, (2nd ed.). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1963, (pp. 119-219).

Kokott, Wolfgang. "The Comet of 1533," J. Hist. Astronomy, 1981, 12: 95-112.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957.

Negebauer, Otto. "On the Planetary Theory of Copernicus," Vistas in Astronomy, 1968, 10: 89-103.

North, John. "The Medieval Background to Copernicus," in Copernicus, Yesterday and Today, A. Beer, ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 3-16).

Oberman, Heiko A. "Reformation and Revolution: Copernicus' Discovery in an Era of Change," in The Nature of Scientific Discovery, Owen Gingerich, ed. Washington: Smithsonian, 1975, (pp. 134-169).

Pannekoek, Anton. A History of Astronomy. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961; New York: Dover, 1989.

Ravetz, J.R. "The Copernican Revolution," in Companion to History of Modern Science, Olby, R.C., G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, & M.J.S. Hodge, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, (pp. 201-216).

Shapere, Dudley. "Copernicanism as a Scientific Revolution," Vistas in Astronomy, 1975, 17: 97-104.

Swerdlow, Noel. "The Origins of the Gregorian Civil Calendar," J. Hist. of Astronomy, 1974, 5: 48-49.

Westman, Robert S. The Copernican Achievement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

------. "The Astronomer's Role in the 16th Century," Hist. Sci., 1980, 18: 105-147.

Zilsel, Edgar. "Copernicus and Mechanics," Roots of Scientific Thought, P.P. Wiener, ed. New York: Basic Books, 1957, (pp. 276-280).

Tycho Brahe & Reception of Copernicanism

DSB: Brahe, Mästlin, Osiander, Praetorius, Reinhold, Rheticus.

Christianson, John R. "The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe," Scientific American, 1961,204 (2): 118-128.

------. "Tycho Brahe's Cosmology from the 'Astrologia' of 1591," Isis, 1968, 59: 312-318.

------. "Tycho Brahe's German Treatise on the Comet of 1577: A Study in Science and Politics," Isis, 1979, 70: 110-140.

Dobrzycki, Jerzy (ed.). The Reception of Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973.

Drake, Stillman. "Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo," in Copernicus, Yesterday and Today, A. Beer, ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 177-190).

Dreyer, J.L.E. Tycho Brahe: A Picture of the Scientific Life and Work in the 16th Century. New York: Dover, 1963.

Gade, John Allyne. The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947 & New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.

Gingerich, Owen & Robert S. Westman. "The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-Century Cosmology," Trans. American Phil. Soc., 1988, 78:1-148.

Henderson, Janice. "Erasmus Reinhold's Determination of the Distance of the Sun from the Earth," in The Copernican Achievement, R. Westman, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, (pp. 108-129).

Jardine, Nicolas. The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler’s Defence of Tycho against Ursus with essays on its Provenance and Significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Lakatos, Imre. "Why Did the Copernican Research Program Supersede Ptolemy's?," The Copernican Achievement, R. Westman, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, (pp. 354-383).

Thoren, Victor E. "Tycho Brahe: Past and Future Research," Hist. Sci. 1973, 11: 270-282.

------. "Tycho Brahe as the Dean of a Renaissance Research Institute," in Science, Religion, and World Views. . ., M. Osler, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, (pp. 275-295).

------. The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe. (Forthcoming).

Van Helden, Albert. Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Wardeska, Zofia. "Copernicus und die deutschen Theologen des 16. Jahrhunderts," Nicolaus Copernicus zum 500. Geburtstag. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1973, (pp. 155-184).

Westman, Robert S. "The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory," Isis, 1975, 66: 165-193.

------. "The Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory," in The Nature of Scientific Discovery, O. Gingerich, ed. Washington: Smithsonian, 1975, (pp. 393-429).

------. "Three Responses to the Copernican Theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe, and Michael Mästlin," in The Copernican Achievement, R. Westman, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, (pp. 285-345).

Kepler

DSB: Gilbert, Kepler, Ursus.

Aiton E.J. "Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion," Isis, 1969, 60: 75-90.

------. "The Elliptical Orbit and the Area Law," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 573-583).

------. "Johannes Kepler in Light of Recent Research," Hist. Sci., 1976, 14: 77-100.

------. "Johannes Kepler and the 'Mysterium Cosmographicum'," Sudhoffs Archiv, 1977, 61: 173-194.

Beer, Arthur & Peter Beer, eds. Kepler 400 Years. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975.

------. "Kepler's Astrology and Mysticism," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 399-426).

Caspar, Max. Kepler, 1571-1630, C. Doris Hellman, ed. & trans. New York: Collier, 1962.

Drake, Stillman. "Kepler and Galileo," in Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 237-253).

Figala, Karin. "Kepler and Alchemy," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer and P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 457-469).

Gingerich, Owen. "Kepler's Place in Astronomy," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 261-278).

------. "The Origins of Kepler's Third Law," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 595-601).

Grafton, Anthony. "Michael Mästlin's Account of Copernican Planetary Theory," Proceedings Am. Phil. Soc., 1973, 117: 523-550.

Hellman C. Doris. "Kepler and Comets," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 790-798).

------. "Kepler and Tycho Brahe," Kepler 400 Years, A. Beer & P. Beer, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975, (pp. 223-229).

Holton, Gerald. "Johannes Kepler's Universe: Its Physics and Metaphysics," in his Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973, (pp. 69-90).

Jarrel, Richard A. "Mästlin's Place in Astronomy," Physis, 1975, 17: 5-20.

Koestler, Arthur. The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1960.

Pauli, Wolfgang. "The Influence of Archetypal Ideas of the Scientific Theories of Kepler," in The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, C. G. Jung & W. Pauli, eds.; Priscilla Silz, trans. New York: Pantheon Books, 1955, (pp. 147-240).

Rosen, Edward. Three Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped Between Tycho Brahe and Ursus. New York: Abaris Books, 1986.

Russel, J. L. "Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion: 1609-1666," Brit. J. History Science, 1964, 2: 1-24.

Thoren, Victor E. "Kepler's Second Law in England," Brit. J. History Science, 1974, 7: 243-256.

Westman, Robert S. "Kepler's Theory of Hypothesis and the 'Realist Dilemma'," Studies in Hist. & Phil. Sci., 1972, 3: 233-264.

Wilson, Curtis. "From Kepler's Laws, So Called, to Universal Gravitation," Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., 1970, 6: 89-170.

------. "Newton and Some Philosophers on Kepler's 'Laws'," J. History Ideas, 1974, 35:231-258.

Galileo (Mechanics, The Galileo Affair)

DSB: Bellarmine, Borelli, Buridan, Castelli, Cavalieri, Galilei, Harriot, Torricelli, Viviani.

Agassi, Joseph. "On Explaining the Trial of Galileo," Organon, 1971, 8: 137-166. [Wid.:Sci 125.82]

Bedini, Silvio A. "The Instruments of Galileo Galilei," in Galileo Man of Science, Ernan McMullin, ed. New York: Basic Books, 1967, (pp. 256-292).

Boas Hall, Marie. "Galileo's Influence on Seventeenth-century English Scientists," in Galileo Man of Science, Ernan McMullin, ed. New York: Basic Books, 1967, (pp. 405-414).

Boyer, Carl B. "Galileo's Place in the History of Mathematics," in Galileo Man of Science, Ernan McMullin, ed. New York: Basic Books, 1967, (pp. 232-255).

Brown, Harold I. "Galileo, the Elements, and the Tides," Studies History & Philosophy of Science, 1976, 7: 337-351.

Carugo, Adriano & Crombie, Alistair C. "The Jesuits and Galileo's Ideas of Science and of Nature," Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, 1983, 8 (2): 3-68.

Clavelin, Maurice. The Natural Philosophy of Galileo, A.J. Pomerans, trans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974.

Coffa, José A. "Galileo's Concept of Inertia," Physis, 1968, 10: 261-281.

Costabel, Pierre. "Mathematics and Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment," in Reason, Experiment, and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution, M. Bonelli and W. Shea, eds. New York: Science History, 1975, (pp. 177-187).