References
These book and Internet sources are good general references on scientific discovery,
on the process of scientific investigation, on the history of scientific discoveries, and on important scientists.
Book Sources
Aaseng, Nathan. Twentieth-Century Inventors. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
Adler, Robert. Science Firsts, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
———. Medical Firsts. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Anton, Ted. Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World. New York:
W. H. Freeman, 2001.
Ashby, Ruth. Herstory. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Chronology of Science and Discovery. New York: Harper &
Row, 1994.
Atkins, Peter, Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science. New York: Random
House, 2004.
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, Volumes I and II. New York: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Badger, Mark. Two-Fisted Science. New York: G. T. Labs, 2001.
Berlinski, David. Newton’s Gift. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Beshore, George. Science in Ancient China. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and
Himself. New York: Random House, 1997.
Brockman, John. Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist. New York:
Knopf, 2005.
Brodie, James. Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Inventors. New
York: William Morrow, 1999.
Bryan, Jenny. The History of Health and Medicine. Florence, KY: Thompson Learning, 1999.
Bunch, Bryan. The History of Science and Technology. New York: Houghton Mifflin,
2004.
Chang, Laura, ed. Scientists at Work. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
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