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Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction
2 The Road Since Structure Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (1962). ISBN: 0226458083.

Rouse, Joseph. "Science as practice: Two readings of Thomas Kuhn." In Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 26-40. ISBN: 080141959X.

Dennis, Michael. "Historiography of Science: An American Perspective." In Science in the 20th Century. Edited by John Krige, and Dominique Pestre. Amsterdam: Harwood, 1997, pp. 1-26. ISBN: 9057021722.
3 Institutions and Epistemology in Early Modern Europe Daston, Lorraine, and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998. ISBN: 0942299906.

Shapin, Steven, and Simon Shaffer. Leviathan and the Air Pump: Boyle, Hobbes, and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. ISBN: 0691024324.

Biagioli, Mario. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN: 0226045609.
4 Victorian Science Secord, James. "Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 0226744108.

Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. ISBN: 0393311503. (skim)

Winter, Alison. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 0226902234.
5 Science in the Field Rudwick, Martin. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. ISBN: 0226731014.

Burnett, Graham D. Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 0226081206.

Oreskes, Naomi. The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0195117336.
6 The Model Organisms of Modern Biology Kohler, Robert. Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 0226450635.

Creager, Angela. The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN: 0226120260.

Rader, Karen. "The Mouse People: Murine Genetics work at the Bussey Institution, 1909-1936." Journal for the History of Biology 31 (1998): 327-54.

Rader, Karen. "Of Mice, Medicine, and Genetics: C. C. Little's Creation of the Inbred Laboratory Mouse, 1909-1918." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (1999): 319-43.
7 Making Modern Physics Galison, Peter. Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 0226279170.

Kaiser, David. Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226422666. (forthcoming)