Class Bibliography for Research Paper

General works on Royal Society

Da Costa, P. Fontes. "The Culture of Curiosity at The Royal Society in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 56.2 (2002): 147-66.

Hunter, Michael. "The Great Experiment." History Today 60.11 (2010): 34-40.

Sargent, Rose-Mary. “From Bacon to Banks: The vision and the realities of pursuing science for the common good,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2012, pp. 82-90.

Medicine, physiology, public health

Alberti F. “Bodies, Hearts, and Minds.” Isis 100.4 (2009):798-810.

Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana M., Márcia Ferraz H. M., and Silvia Waisse. "Chemical Remedies of the 18th Century: Mercury and Alkahest." Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science 7 (2009): 19-31.

Baxby, D. “Edward Jenner's unpublished Cowpox inquiry and the Royal Society: Everard Home's report to Sir Joseph Banks.” Medical History 43.1 (1999): 108-110.

Beal, Jane. "Catharina Schrader: A Midwife of 18th-Century Friesland." Midwifery Today With International Midwife 110 (2014): 45-47.

Beaudreau, Sherry Ann & Finger, Stanley "Medical Electricity and Madness in the 18th Century." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 49.3 (2006): 330-345.

Blackwell, Mark. "“Extraneous Bodies”: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplantation in Late-Eighteenth-Century England." Eighteenth-Century Life 28.1 (2004): 21-68.

Boylston, Arthur. “Daniel Sutton, a Forgotten 18th Century Clinician Scientist.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 105.2 (2012): 85–87.

Brain, R. M. & Whitmer, K. J. "Dissecting Vision in Early Science and Medicine." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52.3 (2009): 448-453.

Bräunlein, P. J. “The Frightening Borderlands of Enlightenment: The Vampire Problem.” Studies In History And Philosophy Of Science Part C: Studies In History And Philosophy Of Biological And Biomedical Sciences, 43.3 (2012): 710-719.

Bruegel, Martin, Jean-Michel Chevet, and Sébastien Lecocq. "Animal Protein and Rational Choice: Diet in the Eighteenth Century." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44 (2014): 427-452.

Cooley, Denton A. “Aortic Aneurysm Operations: Past, Present, and Future”. Ann Thorac Sug. 67 (1999):1959-1962.

Cooley, Denton A. "The History of Surgery of the Thoracic Aorta." Diseases of the Aorta. 17.4 (1999): 609-613.

Corlett, Helen. "“No small uncertainty”: Eye treatments in 18th-century England and France." Medical History 42, (1998): 217-234.

Craig, Stephen C. "Sir John Pringle MD, Early Scottish Enlightenment Thought and the Origins of Modern Military Medicine" Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.1 (2015): 99-114.

Davenport, Romola, Leonard Schwarz, and Jeremy Boulton. "The Decline of Adult Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century London" Economic History Review 64.4 (2011): 1289-1314.

Ishizuka, H. ““Fibre Body”: The Concept Of Fibre in Eighteenth-Century Medicine, c.1700-40.” Medical History 56.4 (2012): 562-584.

Justman, S. “Imagination's Trickery: The Discovery of the Placebo Effect.” Journal of the Historical Society 10.1 (2010): 57-73.

Kennaway J. “From Sensibility to Pathology: The Origins of the Idea of Nervous Music around 1800.” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences 65.3 (2010):396-426.

Lloyd, Josephine M. "The "Languid Child" and the Eighteenth-Century Man-Midwife." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75.4 (2001): 641-79.

McAllister, Marie E. "Stories Of The Origin Of Syphilis In Eighteenth-Century England: Science, Myth, And Prejudice." Eighteenth-Century Life 24.1 (2000): 22-44.

Pearce, J. M. S. "John Fothergill: A Biographical Sketch and His Contributions to Neurology." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 22.3 (2013): 261-276.

Pinto-Correia, Clara; Monteiro, Joao Lourenco. "Science in Support of Racial Mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde's Enlightenment Program for Improving the Health and Beauty of the Human Species." Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science 38.1 (2014): 19-26.

Roos, Anna Marie. "Luminaries in Medicine: Richard Mead, James Gibbs, and Solar and Lunar Effects on the Human Body in Early Modern England." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74.3 (2000): 433-457.

Schiebinger, Londa. “Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.” Social History of Medicine 26.3 (2013): 364-382.

Tomory, Leslie “The Question of Water Quality and London’s New River in the Eighteenth Century,” Social History of Medicine 27.3 (2014): 488-507.

Turner, David M., and Alun Withey. "Technologies of the Body: Polite Consumption and the Correction of Deformity in Eighteenth-Century England." History 99.338 (2014): 775-796.

Woods, Robert. "Dr. Smellie’s Prescriptions for Pregnant Women." Medical History 52.02 (2008): 257-76.

Zanetti, F. “Curing with Machines: Medical Electricity in Eighteenth-Century Paris.” Technology and Culture 54.3 (2013): 503-530.

Zelle, Cartsen. "Empiricism and the 'Reasonable Physicians' of the Early Enlightenment." Early Science and Medicine 18 (2013): 453-70.

Chemistry

Coley, Noel G. "George Pearson MD, FRS (1751-1828): “The Greatest Chemist in England”?" Notes and Records of the Royal Society 57 (2003): 161-175.

Dickson, D.R. “The Hunt for Red Elixir: An Early Collaboration Between Fellows of the Royal Society” Endeavour 22.2 (1998): 68-71.

Fauque, Danielle M. E. "An Englishman Abroad: Charles Blagden's Visit to Paris in 1783." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62 (2008): 373-390.

Fox, Robert. "The Many Worlds of Thomas Beddoes." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 63 (2009): 211-213.

Griffith, William P., and Peter J. T. Morris. "Charles Hatchett, F. R. S. (1765-1847), Chemist and Discoverer of Niobium." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 57 (2003): 299-316.

Guerra, Corinna. "If You Don't Have a Good Laboratory, Find a Good Volcano: Mount Vesuvius as a Natural Chemical Laboratory in Eighteenth-Century Italy." Ambix 62.3 (2015): 245-265.

Levere, Trevor H. "Dr. Thomas Beddoes: Chemistry, Medicine, and the Perils of Democracy." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 63 (2009): 215-229.

Mason, Stephen F. "Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan, F.R.S., and the chemical revolution of the 18th century." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 45 (1991): 155-164.

Pancaldi, Giuliano. "On Hybrid Objects and Their Trajectories: Beddoes, Davy and the Battery." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 63 (2009): 247-262.

Rayner-Canham, Marelene F., and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. "Pounding on the Doors: The Fight for Acceptance of British Women Chemists." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 28.2 (2003): 110-19.

Richardson, Ruth. "John Wesley's Ethereal Fire." Lancet (London, England) 358.9285 (2001): 15.

Roos, Anna Marie. "A Speculum of Chymical Practice: Isaac Newton, Martin Lister (1639--1712), and the Making of Telescopic Mirrors." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64 (2010): 105-120.

Rowlinson, J. S. "John Freind: Physician, Chemist, Jacobite, and Friend of Voltaire's." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 61 (2007): 109-127.

Seitz, Frederick. "Henry Cavendish: The Catalyst for the Chemical Revolution." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 59, (2005): 175-199.

Serrano, Elena. "Chemistry in The City: The Scientific Role of Female Societies in Late Eighteenth-Century Madrid." Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 60.2 (2013): 139-159.

Simon J. “Pharmacy and Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: What Lessons for the History of Science? Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted To The History Of Science And Its Cultural Influences 29.1 (2014): 283-297.

Stewart, Larry. "Assistants to Enlightenment: William Lewis, Alexander Chisholm and Invisible Technicians in the Industrial Revolution." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62 (2008): 17-29.

Tomory, Leslie. "William Brownrigg's papers on fire-damps." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64.3 (2010): 261-270.

Mathematics

Bardi, Jason S. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time. (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006).

Bellhouse, David R. “Mathematicians and the early English life insurance industry,” Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 30.2 (2015): 131-142.

Croarken, Mary. "Mary Edwards: Computing for A Living in 18th-Century England." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25.4 (2003): 9-15.

Sandifer, Charles E. The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler. (Washington, D.C: Mathematical Association of America, 2007).

Biology (or natural history)

Anderson, Robert Geoffrey William. Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery and the Museum in the Eighteenth (London: British Museum Press 2003).

Appelby, John H. "James Theobald, F.R.S. (1688-1759): merchant and natural historian." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 50. 2 (1996): 179-189.

Blouet, Olwyn M. "Bryan Edwards, FRS, 1743-1800." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 54 (2000): 215-222.

Carey, Daniel. "Compiling nature's history: Travellers and travel narratives in the early Royal Society." Annals of Science 54 (1997): 269-292.

Costa, Palmira Fontes da. "The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century."Endeavour 24 (2000): 34-39.

Costa, Palmira Fontes da. The singular and the making of knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the eighteenth century. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2009).

Cook, Alexandra. "Linnaeus and Chinese Plants: A Test of Linguistic Imperialism Thesis." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 64.2 (2010): 121-138.

Ford, Brian J. "The Royal Society and the microscope." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 55.1 (2001): 29-49.

Gascoigne, John. "The Royal Society, Natural History and the Peoples of the “New World(s)”, 1660--1800." British Journal for the History of Science 42 (2009): 539-562.

Gest, Howard. "The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of the Royal Society." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 58.2 (2004): 187-201.

Gibson, Susannah. "On Being an Animal, Or, The Eighteenth-Century Zoophyte Controversy in Britain." History of Science 50.4 (2012): 453-476.

Guerrini, Anita. "Perrault, Buffon and the Natural History of Animals." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 66.4 (2012): 393-409.

Hartley, Beryl. "Exploring and Communicating Knowledge of Trees in the Early Royal Society." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64 (2010): 229-250.

Koinm, Albert J. "Christopher Merret's use of experiment." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 54.1 (2000): 23-32.

Lewis, Gillian. "The Debt of John Ray and Martin Lister to Guillaume Rondelet of Montpellier." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 66.4 (2012): 323-339.

Ogilvie, Brian W. "Attending to Insects: Francis Willughby and John Ray." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 66.4 (2012): 357-372.

Pearl, Jason H. "Geography and Authority in the Royal Society's Instructions for Travelers." In Hayden, Judy A.; Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750, 71-83. n.p.: Ashgate, 2012.

Ridley, Glynis. "Introduction: Representing Animals." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (2010): 431-436.

Thomas, Jennifer. "Compiling “God's great book [of] universal nature”: The Royal Society's Collecting Strategies." Journal of The History of Collections 23 (2011): 1-13.

Unwin, Robert W. "A provincial man of science at work: Martin Lister, F.R.S., and his illustrators, 1670-1683." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 49 (1995): 209-230.

Physics and mechanics

Boudri, J. Christian. What Was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).

Beretta, Marco. "At the Source of Western Science: The Organization Of Experimentalism at the Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667)." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 54 (2000): 131-151.

Coley, Noel G. "George Fordyce M.D., F.R.S. (1736-1802): Physician-Chemist and Eccentric" Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 55.3 (2001): 395-409.

Croarken, Mary. "Tabulating the Heavens: Computing the Nautical Almanac in 18th-Century England." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25.3 (2003): 48-61.

Hayashi, Shin-ichiro. "Henry Cavendish: An Eccentric Natural Philosopher and His Work."Kagakushi Kenkyu (History of Chemistry) 31 (2004): 179-194.

Heilbron, John L. Physics at the Royal Society During Newton's Presidency (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1983).

Elliott, Paul. “Abraham Bennet, F.R.S. (1749-1799): a provincial electrician in eighteenth-century England” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 53 (1999): 59-78.

Pulte, Helmut. "Rational Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century. On Structural Developments of a Mathematical Science." Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 35.3 (2012): 183-199.

Steinle, Friedrich. “Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity” in Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel (eds.), Science as Cultural Practice (Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2010), pp. 31-44.

Astronomy

Chapman, Allan. "William Herschel and the Measurement of Space." Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Astronomical Society 30 (1989): 399-418.

Costa Vieira, Carla. "Observing The Skies of Lisbon. Isaac De Sequeira Samuda, An Estrangeirado in The Royal Society." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 68.2 (2014): 135-149.

Croarken, Mary. "Astronomical Labourers: Maskelyne's Assistants at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1765-1811." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 57 (2003): 285-298.

Dupré, Sven. "Newton's Telescope in Print: The Role Of Images In The Reception Of Newton's Instrument." Perspectives On Science 16 (2008): 328-359.

Fisher, John. "Conjectures and Reputations: The Composition and Reception of James Bradley's Paper on the Aberration of Light with Some Reference to a Third Unpublished Version." British Journal for the History of Science 43 (2010): 19-48.

Glyn, Lynn B. "Israel Lyons: A Short but Starry Career. The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Jewish Botanist and Astronomer." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 56 (2002): 275-305.

Hoskin, Michael A. William and Caroline Herschel: Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy. (Springer, 2014).

Hoskin, Michael. "Gravity and Light in the Newtonian Universe of Stars." Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008): 251-264.

Levitin, Dmitri. "Halley and the Eternity of the World Revisited." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 67 (2013): 315-329.

Lynden-Bell, D., and R. M. Lynden-Bell. "On The Shapes of Newton's Revolving Orbits." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 51.2 (1997): 195-198.

Macdonald, Lee T. "Making Kew Observatory: The Royal Society, The British Association and the Politics of Early Victorian Science." British Journal for the History of Science 48.3 (2015): 409-433.

Martin, Jean-Pierre, and Anita McConnell. "Joining the Observatories of Paris and Greenwich." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62 (2008): 355-372.

Rothman, Patricia. "“The Light Of His Own Mind”: The Story Of James Ferguson, Astronomer." Notes And Records Of The Royal Society 54.(2000): 33-45. History of Science, Technology & Medicine. Web. 14 Sept. 2016.

Willach, R. "New Light on the Invention of the Achromatic Telescope Objective." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 50 (1996): 195-210.

Winterburn, Emily. "Philomaths, Herschel, and the Myth of the Self-Taught Man." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 68.3 (2014): 207-225.

Winterburn, Emily. "Caroline Herschel: Agency and Self-Presentation." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 69.1 (2015): 69-83.