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• How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), by H. Floris Cohen (PDF files at JSTOR)

• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (revised edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Andrew Robinson, contrib. by Martin J. Rees (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Les Sciences Mathématiques en France Depuis un Demi-Siècle (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et cie, 1917), by Emile Picard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), ed. by Joshua Nall, Liba Taub, and Frances Willmoth (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (Gutenberg text)
• English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture (London: Macmillan, 1874), by Francis Galton (PDF and page images at galton.org)

• Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Lara Pauline Karpenko and Shalyn R. Claggett (PDF with commentary at Michigan and oapen.org)
• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (revised edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Andrew Robinson, contrib. by Martin J. Rees (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Lara Pauline Karpenko and Shalyn R. Claggett (PDF with commentary at Michigan and oapen.org)

• The History of the Royal Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge (London: Printed for T. Knapton et al., 1734), by Thomas Sprat (multiple formats at archive.org)

• England's Neglect of Science (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by John Perry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by G. E. R. Lloyd (HTML at UC Press)
• The Heroic Age of Science: The Conception, Ideals, and Methods of Science Among the Ancient Greeks (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #442; 1933), by William Arthur Heidel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotle's Researches in Natural Science (London: West, Newman and Co., 1912), by Thomas East Lones (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mathematics and Physical Science in Classical Antiquity (London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1922), by J. L. Heiberg, trans. by D. C. Macgregor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe (c2006), by Sarah Lowengard (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

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• Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe (2006), contrib. by M. Dewatripont, Victor Ginsburgh, Patrick Legros, Alexis Walckiers, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Marianne Dujardin, Françoise Vandooren, Pierre Dubois, Jérôme Foncel, Marc Ivaldi, and Marie-Dominique Heusse (PDF with commentary in Europe)

• Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Popular Culture (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Corinna Wagner (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Delay, Denial and Dilution: The Impact of NHS Rationing on Heart Disease and Cancer (2000), by David G. Green and Laura Casper (PDF at Civitas)
• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Quite Like Heaven? Options for the NHS in a Consumer Age (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• Stakeholder Health Insurance (c2000), by David G. Green, contrib. by Timothy D. Baker, Nicholas Beazley, and Adrian Bull (PDF at Civitas)
• England vs. Scotland: Does More Money Mean Better Health? (c2004), by Benedict Irvine and Ian Ginsberg, contrib. by Kevin Woods (PDF at Civitas)
• Delay, Denial and Dilution: The Impact of NHS Rationing on Heart Disease and Cancer (2000), by David G. Green and Laura Casper (PDF at Civitas)
• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)
• British Private Medical Practice and the National Health Service (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by Samuel Mencher (page images at Pitt)
• Pressure Group Politics: The Case of the British Medical Association (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960), by Harry Eckstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Quite Like Heaven? Options for the NHS in a Consumer Age (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)

• Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c2019), by Gareth Millward
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • HTML with commentary at NIH

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2016), by Rebecca Kolins Givan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Regulating Doctors (c2000), ed. by David Gladstone (PDF at Civitas)

• Democratic Experiments: Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Brice Laurent (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Future of Austria: Opportunities and Dangers in the Age of Nanotechnology (2006), ed. by Ernst Eugen Veselsky, trans. by Hedwig D. Thimig, contrib. by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie (partial serial archives)

• Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord (partial serial archives)
• Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Archives de Flore: Journal Botanique (includes later issues titled "Archives de Flore d'Europe"; in French; despite labeling, scanned volume runs 1854-1874), by Friederich Wilhelm Schultz (partial serial archives)

• A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Alice Stroup (HTML at UC Press)

• Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord (partial serial archives)

• A Botanical Arrangement of British Plants (second edition, 3 volumes; Birmingham: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson et al., 1787-1792), by William Withering, contrib. by Jonathan Stokes
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formas at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Field, the Garden, and the Woodland: or, Interesting Facts Respecting Flowers and Plants in General, Designed for the Young (third edition; London: C. Cox, 1847), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, and Their Allies, the Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails (6 volumes; London: F. Warne and Co., ca. 1873), by Anne Pratt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
• Flowers and Their Associations (London: C. Knight, 1840), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• Popular Field Botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Plants Most Common to the Various Localities of the British Isles, Adapted to the Study of Either the Artificial or Natural Systems (second edition; London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849), by Agnes Catlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers, and How to Distinguish Them (second edition; London: Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener Office, 1864), by Margaret Mary Plues (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Select Collection of One Hundred Plates, Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Exotic and British Flowers Which Blow in Our English Gardens: Accurately Drawn and Coloured From Nature, With Their Botanic Characters, and a Short Account of Their Cultivation, Their Uses in Medicine, With the Latin and English Names (London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1775), by John Edwards (page images at Wisconsin)
• Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-Coast (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1856), by Anne Pratt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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