| 1605 | Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning |
| 1718 | Stolle, Anleitung zur Histoire der Gelahrtheit (Introduction to the history of learning) |
| 1781 | Meiners, Geschichte des Ursprungs, Fortgangs und Verfalls der Wissenschaften in Griechenland und Rom (History of the origin, progress and decline of the sciences in Greece and Rome) |
| 1795 | Condorcet, Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain (Sketch for an historical picture of the progress of the human mind) |
| 1832 | Comte asked Guizot to found a chair in history of science |
| 1873 | Candolle, Histoire des sciences et des savants (History of the sciences and scientists) |
| 1892 | Chair in the history of science, Collège de France |
| 1923 | History of Science Society, USA |
| 1925 | Mannheim, ‘Das Problem einer Soziologie des Wissens’ (The problem of a sociology of knowledge) |
| 1926 | Scheler, Die Wissensformen und die Gesellschaft (Forms of knowledge in society) |
| 1935 | Fleck, Entstehung und Entwicklung einer Wissenschaftlichen Tatsache (Genesis and development of a scientific fact) |
| 1938 | Merton, Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England |
| 1957 | Le Goff, Les intellectuels au moyen age (The intellectuals in the Middle Ages) |
| 1960 | Popkin, History of Scepticism |
| 1962 | Machlup, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States |
| 1966 | Foucault, Les mots et les choses (The order of things) |
| 1969 | Foucault, L'archéologie du savoir (The archaeology of knowledge) |
| 1974 | Detienne and Vernant, Les ruses de l'intelligence (Cunning intelligence in Greek culture and society) |
| 1976 | Foucault, La volonté de savoir (The will to knowledge) |
| 1978 | Edward Said, Orientalism |
| 1979 | Bruno Latour/Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life |
| 1979 | Oleson and Voss, The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America |
| 1983 | Shapiro, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England |
| 1985 | Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump |
| 1988 | MacLeod, Government and Expertise |
| 1988 | Haraway, ‘Situated knowledges’ |
| 1989 | Schiebinger, The Mind has no Sex? |
| 1989 | Brown, Knowledge is Power |
| 1992 | Ringer, Fields of Knowledge |
| 1994 | Shapin, A Social History of Truth |
| 1996 | Bayly, Empire and Information |
| 1996 | Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge |
| 1997 | Worsley, Knowledges: What Different Peoples Make of the World |
| 1998 | Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge |
| 1998 | Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact |
| 1999 | Dooley, The Social History of Skepticism |
| 2000 | Burke, A Social History of Knowledge from Gutenberg to Diderot |
| 2000 | Mignolo, Local Histories/Global Designs |
| 2000 | Lander, La colonialidad del saber (The coloniality of knowledge) |
| 2000 | Chandler and Cortada, A Nation Transformed by Information |
| 2000 | Pickstone, Ways of Knowing |
| 2000 | Shapiro, A Culture of Fact |
| 2001 | Zedelmaier and Mulsow, Die Praktiken der Gelehrsamkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit (Learned practices in early modern Europe) |
| 2001 | Headrick, When Information Came of Age |
| 2002 | Lloyd, The Ambitions of Curiosity |
| 2004 | Van Dülmen and Rauschenbach, Macht des Wissens (The power of Knowledge) |
| 2004 | Higgs, The Information State in England |
| 2004 | Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity |
| 2005 | Daunton, The Organization of Knowledge in Victorian Britain |
| 2005 | Van Damme, Paris, capital philosophique (Paris, the capital of philosophy) |
| 2006 | Berry, Japan in Print |
| 2007 | De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice |
| 2007 | Jacob, Lieux de Savoir (Realms of Knowledge) |
| 2007 | König and Whitmarsh, Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire |
| 2008 | Gardey, Écrire, calculer, classer (Writing, calculating, classifying) |
| 2008 | Romano, Rome et la science moderne (Rome and modern science) |
| 2009 | Brendecke, Imperium und Empirie (Empire and empiricism) |
| 2009 | Lloyd, Disciplines in the Making |
| 2009 | Soll, The Information Master |
| 2010 | Blair, Too Much to Know |
| 2010 | Bod, De Vergeten Wetenschappen (The forgotten sciences) |
| 2010 | Daston and Galison, Objectivity |
| 2011 | Daston and Lunbeck, Histories of Scientific Observation |
| 2011 | Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution |
| 2011 | Friedrich, Der Lang Arme Roms? (The long arm of Rome) |
| 2012 | Burke, A Social History of Knowledge: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia |
| 2012 | Mulsow, Präkares Wissen (Precarious knowledge) |
| 2013 | Fischer-Tiné, Pidgin-Knowledge |
| 2014 | Turner, Philology |