Courses:

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"The Scientific Revolution." In MMS, pp. 23-53.

Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects (Oxford: H. Hall, 1660), excerpts.

Shapin, Steven. "Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology," Social Studies of Science (1984): 481-520.

Bowler and Morus. "The Organization of Science." In MMS, pp. 319-340.

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"The Chemical Revolution." In MMS, pp. 55-78.

Golinski, Jan. "The Chemical Revolution and the Politics of Language," The Eighteenth Century 33, no. 3 (1992): 238-251.

Lavoisier, Antoine. "Preface" from Elements of Chemistry (Edinburgh, 1790), from Dover facsimile edition (1965), pp. xiii-xxxvii.

Linnaeus, Carl. "Preface," "Introduction," and "Mammalia." A General System of Nature, Through Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables and Minerals. London, UK: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1806.

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von Liebig, Justus. "Organic Chemistry Applied to Physiology and Pathology." In Animal Chemistry. Cambridge, UK; 1842; reprint, New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1964. pp. 1-23.

Schwann, Theodor. "Theory of the Cells." In Microscopical Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants. Translated by Henry Smith. London, UK: Sydenham Society, 1839, 1847.

Lenoir, Timothy. "Social Interests and the Organic Physics of 1847." In Science in Reflection: The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, vol. 3. Edited by Edna Ullmann-Margalit. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 169-191. ISBN: 9789027727138.

Bowler and Morus. "The New Biology." In MMS, pp. 165-188.

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Maxwell, James Clerk. "The Telephone: The Rede Lecture Delivered to the Senate House of the University of Cambridge, 24 May 1878." In Empires of Physics: A Guide to the Exhibition. Cambridge, UK: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1993. ISBN: 9780906271087.

"I am the Edison Phonograph," the first recorded promotional message on the Edison phonograph, recorded at the Edison Studios, New Jersey, 1906. (OGG)

Sterne, Jonathan. "Machines to Hear for Them." Chapter 1 in The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780822330134.

Bowler and Morus. "Science and Technology." In MMS, pp. 391-414.

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Darwin, Charles. "Struggle for Existence." Chapter 3 in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London, UK: John Murray, 1859. (PDF - 1 MB)

———. "General Summary and Conclusion." From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes. London: John Murray, 1871. (PDF) (Courtesy of eBooks @ Adelaide.)

Brooke, John Hedley. "Darwin and Victorian Christianity." In The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, Edited by J. Hodge and G. Radick. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521777308.

Caputo, Marc. "Florida schools to teach evolution as 'scientific theory'." Miami Herald, 20 February 2008.

Bowler and Morus. "The Darwinian Revolution," and "Science and Religion." In MMS, pp. 129-162 and 341-366.

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Sicherman, Barbara "The Uses of a Diagnosis: Doctors, Patients, and Neurasthenia," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 32 (1977): 33-54.

Freud, Sigmund The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1910). With introduction and commentary by Raymond E. Fancher. (PDF) (Courtesy of Dennis Nilsson, Raymond E. Fancher and Christopher D. Green.)

Bowler and Morus. "The Emergence of the Human Sciences," and "Science and Medicine." In MMS, pp. 301-307 and 439-461.

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Einstein, Albert. Excerpt from "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." Beginning through Part 1: § 3, first three paragraphs.

Galison, Peter. "Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time." Critical Inquiry 26 (Winter 2000): 355-389.

Graham, Loren R. "The Reception of Einstein's Ideas: Two Examples from Contrasting Political Cultures." In Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Edited by Gerald Holton and Yehudah Elkana. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982; reprinted by Dover Publications, 1997. ISBN: 9780486298795.

Bowler and Morus. "Twentieth-Century Physics." In MMS, pp. 253-276.

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Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen. New York, NY: Anchor, 2000. ISBN: 9780385720793.

Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts. Edited by Charles Frank. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 70-91. ISBN: 9780520084995.

Smyth, Henry DeWolf. Excerpts from A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (1945). (PDF) (Download the complete the report.)

Bowler and Morus. "Science and War." In MMS, pp. 463-486.

Links to four academic symposia discussing Copenhagen [scroll down]

Documents relating to the 1941 Bohr-Heisenberg meeting

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Badash, Lawrence. "From Security Blanket to Security Risk: Scientists in the Decade after Hiroshima." History and Technology 19 (September 2003): 241-256.

Edward Teller's testimony in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Hearing Before Personnel Security Board, Washington, DC, April 28, 1954.

Kaiser, David. "The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War." Representations 90 (Spring 2005): 28-60.

Leslie, Stuart W. The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780231079594. [The complete text can be accessed via Google: search for the title and click on the link to http://www.earthscape.org/p3/leslie/index.html].

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Davenport, Charles B. "The Effects of Race Intermingling," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 56 (1917): 364-368. (PDF)

Buck v. Bell, U.S. Supreme Court, 274 US 200 (1927). (PDF)^#

"An Act to Provide for the Sexual Sterilization of Inmates of State Institutions in Certain Cases," Virginia Code chapter 394, 20 March 1924. (PDF)^#

Kevles, Daniel J. "International Eugenics." In Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 40-59. ISBN: 9780807829165.

Dorr, Gregory M. "Assuring America's Place in the Sun: Ivey Foreman Lewis and the Teaching of Eugenics at the University of Virginia, 1915-1953." Journal of Southern History 66 (May 2000): 257-296.

Bowler and Morus. "Biology and Ideology." In MMS, pp. 415-438.

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Berg, Paul, et al. "Summary Statement of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules." 1975. (PDF)^#

Mendelsohn, Everett. "Frankenstein at Harvard: The Public Policies of Recombinant DNA Research." In Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences. Edited by Everett Mendelsohn. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780521267243.

Nelkin, Dorothy and M. Susan Lindee. "Preface to the Second Edition," and "The Supergene." In The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780472030040.

Rogers, Michael. "The Pandora's Box Congress." Rolling Stone 189 (June 19, 1975): 37-40, 42, 74, 77-78, and 82.

Bowler and Morus. "Genetics." In MMS, pp. 189-212.