Books on the Enlightenment: General Overviews:

Books on Enlightenment Science/Literature.

Butterfield, H. 1957. The Origins of Modern Science:

 1300-1800.   New York: Macmillan.

Darnton, Robert. 1979. The Business of Enlightenment:

a Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800. Cambridge: Harvard     University Press.

Gillispie, Charles C. 1980. Science and Polity in France at the end of the Old Regime. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Headrick, Daniel R. 2000. When Information Came of Age:   Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and   Revolution, 1700-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hoskin, Michael, ed. 1999. The Cambridge Concise History of        Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Idhe, Aaron J. 1964. The Development of Modern Chemistry. New York: Harper & Row.

Jacob, Margaret C. 1988. The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific      Revolution. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Kickel, Katherine Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction  New York : Routledge, 2007.

Kors, Alan Charles, ed. 2003. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.   Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Littmann, Mark. 2004. Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar        System. New York: Courier Dover Publications.

Lynn, Michael R. 2006. Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press; New York : Palgrave.

Mason, Stephen F. 1962. A History of the Sciences. New York: Collier Books.

McClellan, James Edward and Harold Dorn (2006). Science and      Technology in World History: An Introduction. JHU Press.

Melton, James van Horn. 2001 The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Olby, R.C., G.N Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, and M.J.S. Hodge. 1990.  

Companion to the History of Modern Science. London: Routledge.

Phillips, Patricia. 1991 The Scientific Lady : A Social History of      Women's Scientific Interests, 1520-1918. New York: Palgrave        Macmillan.

Porter, Roy, ed. 2003. The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schectman, Jonathan. 2003. Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments,       Inventions and Discoveries of the 18th Century. Westport, CT:        Greenwood Press.

Shearer, Barbara S., and Benjamin F. Shearer. 1997. Notable Women      in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Silver, Brian L. 1998. The Ascent of Science. New York: Oxford    University Press.

Sutton, Geoffrey. 1995. Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture,      and the Demonstration of Enlightenment. Colorado: Westview  Press.

Turner, Herbert Hall. 1963. Astronomical Discovery. Berkeley:       University of California Press.

Whitehead, Barbara J., ed. 1991 Women's Education in Early Modern     Europe: A History, 1500-1800. New York: Garland.

E. A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (1927)

P. Curry, Astrology, Science, and Society (1987)

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret Jacob, Newton and the Culture of    Newtonianism (1995)

William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature (1994) [about     books of recipes and secrets and their fates]

John Henry, The Scientific Revolution and Modern Science (1997)

James R. Jacob, The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and     Achievements 1500-1700 (1998)

Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution  (1999) [good on instruments and technologies]

David Lindeman and Robert Westman, eds., Reappraisals of the     Scientific Revolution (1990)

Margaret Osler, ed., Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (2000)

Paolo Rossi, Philosophy, Technology and the Arts (1970)

Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of     Modern Science (1989)

Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (1996)