BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Genesis and Geology. A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790–1850. Harvard Historical Studies, vol. 58. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1951; 2nd printing, 1969; Harper Torchbook Edition, New York, 1959.
Lazare Carnot, Savant. A Monograph Treating Carnot’s Scientific Work, with Facsimile Reprints of His Unpublished Writings on Mechanics and the Calculus, and an Essay Concerning the Latter by A. P. Youschkevitch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
“Pierre-Simon de Laplace,” with Sections by Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Dictionary of Scientific Biography 15 (1978).
Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783–1784. With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads. Illustrated. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
EDITIONS
A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from L’Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. Introduction and Notes. 2 volumes. New York: Dover Publications, 1959.
The Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 16 volumes. New York: Scribners, 1970–1980.
Monuments of Egypt; the Napoleonic Edition. The complete Archaeological Plates from La Description de l’Égypte. With Michel Dewachter. Introduction and Notes. Second, corrected printing, 2 volumes, boxed, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988.
COLLABORATIVE WORK
With Henry Laurens (principal author), Jean-Claude Golvin, and Claude Traunecker, L’Expédition d’Égypte, 1798–1801. Aspects Scientifiques. Paris: Éditions Armand Colin, 1989.
PUBLISHED LECTURES
Les fondements intellectuels de l’introduction des probabilités en physique. Paris: Palais de la Découverte, 1963.
The Professionalization of Science. France, 1770–1830, compared to the United States, 1910–1970. Kyoto: Doshisha University Press, 1983.