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1. Grant, Edward / Studies in Medieval science and natural philosophy
2. Newman, William R., 2006 /  Atoms and Alchemy: chemistry and the experimental origins of the scientific revolution, Univ. of Chicago Press
3. Grant, Edward / God and reason in the Middle Ages
4. Kunitzsch, Paul / Stars and numbers : astronomy and mathematics in the medieval Arab and western worlds
5. Rosamond McKitterick / Carolingian culture : emulation and innovation
6. Eastwood, Bruce / Revival of planetary astronomy in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe
7. Science in Western and Eastern civilization in Carolingian times
8. Grant, Edward / Science and religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 : from Aristotle to Copernicus
9. David C. Lindberg and Robert S. / Reappraisals of the scientific revolution
10. Word, image, number : communication in the Middle Ages
11. Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600 / Cause, principle, and unity
12. Yates, Frances Amelia / Lull & Bruno
13. Giordano Bruno : philosopher of the Renaissance / edited by Hilary Gatti
14. Contreni, John J. / Carolingian learning, masters and manuscripts
15. Contreni, John J / Cathedral school of Laon from 850 to 930 : its manuscripts and masters
16. Seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages
17. Gribbin, John R. / Scientists : a history of science told through the lives of its greatest inventors
18. Marcia L. Colish /Medieval foundations of the western intellectual tradition, 400-1400
19. Ian G. Barbour / When science meets religion 
20. Hugh Trevor-Roper / Renaissance Essays
21. David C. Lindberg / The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
22. Hugh Trevor-Roper / Europe's Phisician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne
23. Promethean ambitions
24. Reader’s guide to the history of science
25. Angela Voss / Marsilio Ficino
26. Marcia L. Colish / Medieval foundations of the western intellectual tradition, 400-1400
27. Greer, John Michael / The New Encyclopedia of the Occult
28. Butterfield, Herbert / The Origins of Modern Science
29. Farrington, Benjamin / Greek Science
30. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages:Their Religious...
31. Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution: Second...
32. Science in the Middle Ages (Chicago History of Science and Medicine)
33. Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction [Paperback] by Ferngren, Gary
34. Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
35. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (New...
36. Clagett, Marshall  / Ancient Egyptian Science
37. Frankfort, Henri / The Intellectual adventure of ancient man: an essay on speculative thought in the Ancient Near East
38. Oppenheim, A. Leo /  "Man and nature in Mesopotamian civilization", in Dictionary of scientific biography, ed. by Charles Coulston Gillispie, vol. 15, p. 634-66
39. Parker, Richard /  “Egyptian astronomy, astrology, and calendrical reckoning”, in Dictionary of scientific biography, ed. by Charles Coulston Gillispie, vol. 15, p. 706-727
40. Clagett, Marshall /  Greek science in antiquity
41. Furley, David   The Greek cosmologists. Vol. 1: The reformation of the atomic theory and its earliest critics
42. Lloyd, G.E.R.  Early Greek science: Thales to Aristotle
43. Lloyd, G.E.R   Greek Science after Aristotle
44. Lloyd, G.E.R   The revolution of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science
45. Sthal, William   Roman science: origins, development and influence to the later Middle Ages
46. Crombie, Alistair  / Medieval and Early Modern science
47. Hilgarth, J. N. / Ramon Lull and Lullism in fourteenth century, France
48. Collingwood, R. G. /  The idea of nature
49. Grant, Edward / Much ado about nothing: theories of space ad vacuum from the Middle Ages to the scientific revolution
50. Grant, Edward / A source book in Medieval science
51. Haskins, Charles / Studies in the history of Medieval science
52. Kren, Claudia   /  Medieval science and technology: A selected, annotated bibliography
53. Oppenheim Leo / “Mesopotamian medicine”, Bulletin of the history of medicine
54. Pedersen, Olaf A survey of the “Almagest”
55. Lindberg, David / The beginnings of Western science: the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious and institutional context, 600BC to AD 1450
56. Lindberg, David  / Science in the Middle Ages
57. Lindberg, David   / Theories of vision from al-Kindi to Kepler
58. Maier, Anneliese  / On the threshold of exact science: selected writings of Anneleise Maier on Late Medieval natural philosophy
59. Murdoch, John E. / Album of science: antiquity and the Middle ages
60. Reeds, Karen M. / Botany in Medieval and Renaissance universities
61. Steneck, Nicholas / Science and creation in the Middle Ages: Henry of Langenstein on Genesis
62. Stock, Brian /  Myth and science in the twelfth century: a study of Bernard Silvester
63. Tachau, Katherine / Vision and certitude in the age of Ockham: optics, epistemology and the foundations of semantics, 1250 to 1345
64. Weisheipl, James / The development of physical theory in the Middle Ages
65. Clulee, Nicholas  / John Dee’s natural philosophy: between science and religion
66. Colnort-Bodet, Suzanne /  Le code alchimique dévoilé: distilatteurs, alchimistes et symbolystes
67. Teeter Dobbs Jo, B. / The foundations of Newton’s alchemy, or “The hunting of the green lion”
68. Multhauf, Robert / The origins of chemistry
69. Sivin, Nathan / Chinese alchemy: preliminary studies
70. Yates, Fr. / Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition
71. Blackwell, Richard / Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible, including a translation of Foscarini’s “Letter on the Motion of the Earth”
72. Boas, Marie  /  The scientific Renaissance, 1450 to 1630
73. Burtt, Edwin   / The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science
74. Cohen, Bernard   /  The birth of a new physics
75. Cohen, Bernard   / Puritanism and the rise of modern science: the Merton thesis
76. Debus, Allen G.  / Man and nature in the Renaissance
77. Drake, Stillman  / Galileo at work: his scientific biography
78. Feingold, Mordechai / The mathematicians’ apprenticeship: science, universities and society in England in 1560-1640
79. Hall, Rupert  / The revolution of science, 1500 to 1750
80. Joy, Lynn S. / Gassendi the atomist, advocate of history in an age of science
81. Koyre, Al. / From the closed world to the infinite universe
82. Kuhn, Th.  / The Copernican revolution: planetary astronomy in the development of western thought
83. Lindberg, David /  Reprisals of the scientific revolution
84. Ornstein, Martha / The role of scientific societies in the XVII century
85. Raven, Charles /  John Ray, naturalist, his life and works
86. Sabra, A.I. / Theories of light from Descartes to Newton
87. Swerdlow, N.M. /  Mathematical astronomy in Copernicus’s “De Revolutionibus”
88. Webster, Ch. / The great instauration: science, medicine and reform, 1626-1660
89. Westfall, Richard   / Never at rest: a biography of Isaac Newton
90. Wightman, W.P.D. / Science in a Renaissance society
91. Crowe, M. /  The extraterrestrial life debate: 1750-1900: the idea of the plurality of world from Kant to Lowell
92. Forbes, R.J. / Studies in Ancient technology
93. Haren, Michael  / Medieval Thought: the Western intellectual tradition from Antiquity to the Thirteen century
94. Ackerknecht, Erwin /  A short History of Medicine
95. Garrison, Fielding / An introduction to the history of medicine: with medical chronology, suggestions for study, and bibliographic data
96. Magner, Lois / A history of medicine
97. Numbers, Ronald  / Caring and curing: health and medicine in the Western religious traditions
98. Winslow, Ch.-Ed. / The conquest of epidemic disease: a chapter in the history of ideas
99. Estes, Worth / The medical skills of Ancient Egypt
100. Ghalioungui, Paul / The house of life, Per Ankh: magic and medical science in ancient Egypt
101. Manniche, Lise / An ancient Egyptian herbal
102. Phillips, E.D. / Greek Medicine
103. Riddle, John  / Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine
104. Temkin, Owsei / Galenism: rise and decline of a medical philosophy
105. Temkin, Owsei / Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians
106. Von Staden, Henrich  / Herophilus: the art of medicine in early Alexandria
107. Griggs, Barbara  / Green Pharmacy: a history of herbal medicine
108. Ottosson, Per Gunnar / Scholastic medicine and philosophy: a study of commentaries on Galen’s Tegni, ca. 1300-1450
109. Rubin, Stanley / Medieval English medicine
110. Debus, Allen G. /  The chemical philosophy: Paracelsian science and medicine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
111. Pagel, Walter / Paracelsus: an introduction to philosophical medicine in the era of the Renaissance
112. Siraisi, Nancy / Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: the canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500
113. John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani  / Word, image, number : communication in the Middle Ages
114. Carruthers, Mary / Craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
115. Pormann, Peter E. / Medieval Islamic medicine
116.  Paul Leo Butzer, Dietrich Lohrmann / Science in Western and Eastern civilization in Carolingian times