1905 –1909 RÁDL, Emmanuel (1873 – 1942)
Geschichte der biologischen Theorien seit dem Ende des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. 2 pts.
Second edition, extensively revised as Geschichte der biologischen Theorien in der Neuzeit, pt. l., Leipzig-Berlin, 1913. English translation of pt 2. as The history of biological theories, London, 1930.
GMN 141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2259
1928 NORDENSKIÖLD, Erik (1872 – 1933)
The history of biology: A survey. Translated by L. B. Eyre.
Previously published in Swedish and German editions. Many reprints were published.
GMN 142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2261
1941 REDI, Francesco (1626 – 1697); PRANDI, Dino
Bibliografia delle opere di Francesco Redi; segue la riproduzione della Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali scritta a Paolo Falconieri. Dall'edizione delle "Lettere" 1779-1795
GMN 13183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15444
1947 RAVEN, Charles Earle (1885 – 1964)
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
GMN 356.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/294
1948 BAKER, John Randal (1900 – 1984)
The cell-theory: a restatement, history, and critique.
GMN 139.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2254
1951 HALL, Thomas Steele (1909 – )
A source book in animal biology.
GMN 143.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2265
1951 SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729 – 1799); PRANDI, Dino
Bibliografia delle opere di Lazzaro Spallanzani delle traduzioni e degli scritti su di lui
GMN 13182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15443
1957 HARVEY, Edmund Newton (1887 – 1959)
A history of luminescence: From the earliest times until 1900.
A history of bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by living organisms.
GMN 11653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13854
1958 BODENHEIMER, Frederick Simon (1897 – 1959)
The history of biology.
GMN 145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2412
1959 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
A history of biology to about the year 1900. A general introduction to the study of living things. 3rd ed.
GMN 144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2266
1959 HUGHES, Arthur Frederick William (1908 – 1975)
A history of cytology.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2415
1960 HOOKE, Robert (1635 – 1703); KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982)
A bibliography of Dr. Robert Hooke by Geoffrey Keynes, Kt.
GMN 11202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13399
1966 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694); ADELMANN, Howard Bernhardt (1898 – 1988)
Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology. 5 vols.
Vol. 1 is an exhaustive biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology, and annotated English translations of Nos. 468 & 469.
GMN 534.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1787
1967 OPPENHEIMER, Jane Marion (1911 – 1996)
Essays in the history of embryology and biology.
GMN 534.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1790
1971 ROGER, Jacques (1920 – 1990)
Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle. Genération des animaux de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie. 2e ed.
Translated into English by Robert Ellrich as The life sciences in eighteenth-century French thought, edited by Keith R. Benson, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
GMN 534.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1792
1974 SMIT, Pieter (1925 – )
History of the life sciences. An annotated bibliography.
Over 4,000 annotated citations of works dealing with all aspects of the history of medicine and biology, including a section on individual and collected biographies.
GMN 6451.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7574
1977 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)
The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin.
GMN 9261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11443
1977 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); FREEMAN, Richard Broke (1915 – 1986)
Charles Darwin: An annotated bibliographical handlist
This bibliography has been extensively supplemented by the Freeman Bibliographical Database at Darwin Online edited by John van Wyhe. "The database has been supplemented by the entries from unpublished manuscript corr…
GMN 11208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13405
1982 LENOIR, Timothy (1948 – )
The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology.
GMN 145.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2418
1982 MAYR, Ernst Walter (1904 – 2005)
The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance.
An interpretive history of what Mayr calls “ultimate” explanations in biology, reflecting Mayr’s expertise in systematics, evolution, and genetics.
GMN 258.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8729
1986 HORDER, T. J.; WITKOWSKI, Jan A.; WYLIE, Christopher Craig (1945 – )
A history of embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology Symposia 8. Edited by T. J. Horder, J. A. Wikowski and C. C. Wylie.
A survey of the history of developmental biology from 1880.
GMN 534.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1796
1987 APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.
"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…
GMN 12211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14421
1991 DINSMORE, Charles E.
A history of regeneration research: Milestones in the evolution of a science. Edited by Charles E. Dinsmore.
GMN 9356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11538
1995 NYHART, Lynn K.
Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.
GMN 11900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14105
1996 GALL, Joseph Grafton (1928 – )
Views of the cell. A pictorial history.
Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.
GMN 6985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9151
1996 SULLOWAY, Frank Jones (1947 – )
Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.
GMN 7520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9692
1996 BOWLER, Peter J. (1944 – )
Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.
GMN 10646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12839
1997 ROBINSON, Joseph D.
Moving questions: A history of membrane transport and bioenergetics.
"This book describes half a century of progress in two mainstream areas of biological research: membrane transport, initially a focus of physiologists, and oxidative phosphorylation, initially a focus of biochemists. …
GMN 8749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10927
1999 HARRIS, Sir Henry (1925 – 2014)
The birth of the cell.
GMN 9193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11374
2000 APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )
Shaping biology: The National Science Foundation and American biological research, 1945-1975.
"Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from…
GMN 12212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14422
2001 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); KING, R. A. H.
Aristotle on life and death
GMN 12145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14355
2002 PAULY, Philip Joseph (1950 – 2008)
Biologists and the promise of American life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey.
GMN 13127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15383
2003 HOLMES, Frederick Lawrence (1933 – 2003); RENN, Jürgen (1956 – ); RHEINBERGER, Hans-Jörg (1946 – )
Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…
GMN 9253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11435
2004 DICK, Stephen J. (1949 – ); STRICK, James E.
The living universe: NASA and the development of astrobiology.
GMN 7380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9552
2007 LANDECKER, Hannah
Culturing life: How cells became technologies.
A history of tissue culture.
GMN 7881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10053
2011 FINGER, Stanley; PICCOLINO, Marco (1946 – )
The shocking history of electric fishes: From ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology.
The first comprehensive history of this subject.
GMN 6843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9007
