Also by the AuthorBOOKS

Genesis and Geology. A Study in the Relations of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790–1850. 1951. 2nd ed., with a foreword by

Nicolaas Rupke, 1996.

The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas. 1960. 2nd ed., 1990.

Lazare Carnot, Savant. 1971.

Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime,

with the collaboration of A. P. Youschkevitch. 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. 1983.

Pierre-Simon Laplace: A Life in Exact Science, with the collaboration of Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guinness. 1998.

PUBLISHED LECTURES

Les Fondements intellectuels de l’introduction des probabilités en physique. Conférences du Palais de la Découverte, Paris. 1962.

The Professionalization of Science: France 1770–1830, Compared to the United States,

1910–1970. The Neesima Lectures, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 1983.

EDITIONS

A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from the “Encyclopédie” of Denis Diderot. 2 vols. 1959.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 16 vols. 1970–80.

Monuments of Egypt, the Napoleonic Edition: The Complete Archaeological Plates from “La Description de l’Égypte.” Co-edited with Michel Dewachter. 2 vols. 1987.