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Allen, D.E., The Naturalist in Britain: a social history, London, 1976, Allen Lane

Amrine, F., Zucker, F.J., and Wheeler, H., Goethe and the Sciences, Dordrecht, 1987, Reidel

Anderson, F.H., (ed.), The New Organon and Related Writings [of Francis Bacon], New York, 1960, Bobbs-Merrill

Aquinas, St. Thomas, Summa Theologica , Modern Library College Edition, ed. Anton C. Pegis, New York, 1948, Random House.

On line edition of the 1920 print edition is here (unfortunately with every page framed by RC propoganda and fund-raising).

Allen, Garland, Life Science in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, 1978, CUP, (UK Ed.)

Arber, Agnes, The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form, Cambridge, 1950, CUP

Aristotle, The incomparable, Parts of Animals, London, 1968, Heinemann (Loeb Edition)

Bowler, P.J., The Environmental Sciences, London, 1992, Fontana

Boylan, Michael, Method & Practice in Aristotle's Biology, Washington, 1983, University Press of America

Burkhardt, Richard W., Jn.r The Spirit of System: Lamarck & Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge Mass., 1977, Harvard University Press

Butterfield, Herbert, The Origins of Modern Science, London, 1957, Bell & Hyman (2nd ed)

Coleman, William, George Cuvier Zoologist, Cambridge Mass., 1964, Harvard University Press

William Coleman : Biology in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge (UK Ed.) 1977 CUP

A.C. Crombie : Augustine to Galileo. (2nd Ed.) London 1959 Heinemann

A. Cunningham and N. Jardine (eds) : Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge 1970 CUP

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert : Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. Indianapolis (edition translated by R,N. Schwab) 1751 Bobbs-Merrill

Allen G. Debus : Man & Nature in the Renaissance. Cambridge 1978 CUP

Delumeau, Jean: Sin & Fear, 1st published 1983, English translation, New York, 1990, St.Martin's Press

Eco, Umberto:Art and Beauty 1st published in Italian in 1959, English translation, New Haven and London, 1986, Yale University Press

Michel Foucault : The Order of Things. (UK Ed) London 1970 Tavistock

Michel Foucault : Discipline & Punish. (Penguin UK Ed) London 1991 Penguin

Charles Coulston Gillespie : Science & Polity in France at the end of the Old Regime. Princeton 1980 Princeton University Press

Glacken,Clarence J. : Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Berkeley, 1976 (Paperback), University of California Press.

Goethe J.W. : Readings in Goethean Science. (Goethean texts ed. H.H. Koepf & L.S.Jolly) 1978 Rhode Island

A.Rupert Hall : The Revolution in Science 1500-1750. (Revised Ed.) London 1983 Longman

Thomas L. Hankins : Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge 1985 CUP

M. J. S. Hodge : "The development of the philosophy of science since 1900." in Olby et al., op cit

Robert Hooke : Micrographica. London 1665 .

Hookyaas, R. : Religion and the Rise of Modern Science Edinburgh. (p/b ed.) 1973 Scottish Academic Press

Huizinga, J. The Waning of the Middle Ages (First published 1924) Penguin edition, Harmondsworth, 1965

David Hume : A Treatise of Human Nature. (Everyman Ed.) London (1738) 1911 Dent

Jean Starobinski, Action and Reaction, English edition, New York, 2003, Zone Books. 1st published in French, 1999.

John Locke : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. (Everyman Ed.) London (1690) 1961 Dent

Timothy Lenoir : The Strategy of Life Dordrecht 1982 Reidel

Arthur O. Lovejoy : The Great Chain of Being, Cambridge, Mass. 1936 Harvard University Press

Raymond Martin and John Barresi, Naturalisation of the Soul, London, Routledge, 2000

Ernst Mayr : The Growth of Biological Thought. Cambridge, Mass 1982 Harvard University Press

Carolyn Merchant : The Death of Nature, New York, 1980, Harper Row.

A.G Morton : History of Botanical Science. London 1981 Academic Press

H.B. Nisbet : Goethe and the Scientific Tradition, London 1972 University of London.

R. C. Olby and G. N. Cantor : Companion to the History of Modern Science London 1990 Routledge

Dov Ospovat The Development of Darwin's Theory Cambridge 1981 CUP

John Passmore : Man's Responsibility for Nature London 1974 Duckworth

Val Plumwood : Feminism & the Master of Nature London, 1993, Routledge.

Vernon Pratt : "Aristotle & the essence of natural history." 1982 pp 203-223

T.J. Reed : Goethe, Oxford, 1984, OUP.

Philip F. Rehbock : The Philosophical Naturalists. Madison 1983 U. of Wisconsin Press

Harriet Ritvo : The Animal Estate (Penguin UK Ed.) 1990 Penguin

Shirley Roe : Matter, Life and Generation: 18th C. Embryology. Cambridge 1981 CUP

G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (eds) : The Ferment of Knowledge. Cambridge 1980 CUP

Martin S.J. Rudwick : The Great Devonian Controversy. Chicago 1985 U. of Chicago Press

Nicholas Rupke : Vivisection in historical perspective London 1990 Routledge

E.S. Russell : Form and Function London 1916.

Cecil J. Schneer : Towards a History of Geology. Cambridge, Mass 1969 MIT Press

Roger Scruton: A Short History of Modern Philosophy, London, 1984, Routledge

James Serpell : In the Company of Animals Oxford 1985 Blackwell

John W. Shirley and F. David Hoeniger (eds) : Science & the Arts in the Renaissance Cranbury, N.J. 1985 Associated University Presses

Phillip R. Sloan : "Natural History" in Olby et al. (eds), Companion to the History of Modern Science.

Roger Smith : Trial by Medicine Edinburgh 1981 Edinburgh University Press

Charles Taylor: Hegel Cambridge 1975 CUP.

Charles Taylor, The Sources of the Self, Cambridge, 1989, CUP

Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World, London 1983 Allen Lane

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson : On Growth and Form, Cambridge 1917 *

Richard S. Westfall : Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. Michigan (p/p ed.) 1973 Michigan University Press

Richard S. Westfall : The Construction of Modern Science. Cambridge 1977 (UK ed.) CUP

Gilbert White : The Natural History of Selbourne.

Aram Vartanian : La Mettrie's "L'Homme Machine", Princeton, 1960, Princeton UP

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