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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Capra, Fritjof. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Conner, Clifford D. A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks." New York: Nation Books, 2006.

Conway, Flo and Jim Siegelman. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Crump, Thomas. A Brief History of Science: As Seen Through the Development of Scientific Instruments. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.

Feuer, Lewis S. Einstein and the Generations of Science. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike. The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Lindberg, David C . The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 BC to AD 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964.
McLean, Antonia. Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England. London: Heinemann, 1972.
Morris, Ricahrd. The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2003.
Netz, Reviel; and William Noel.The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist. New York: Da Capo Press, 2007.
Newton, Roger G. Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Pinto-Correia, Clara. The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Portugal, Franklin H. and Jack S. Cohen. A Century of DNA: A History of the Discovery of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press: 1977.

Robinson, Andrew. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius. New York: Pi Press: 2006.

Saliba, George. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007.

Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
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