The John J. Reilly Center

Program in History and Philosophy of Science

Summer Reading List

for

Entering Graduate Students

All new graduate students in the HPS Program are asked to read the following titles during the summer prior to the beginning of their studies, as preparation for their course work.

Coleman, W.L. Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).

Conrad, Lawrence I., et al. The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC - AD 1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Debus, Alan. Man and Nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).

Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

Struik, Dirk Jan. A Concise History of Mathematics. (New York: Dover, 1967).

Westfall, Richard S. The Life of Isaac Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).