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

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Scientific Revolution Revisited (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Mikuláš Teich (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• 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)
• Science and the Human Prospect (electronic edition, 2004), by Ronald C. Pine (HTML at hawaii.edu)
• Introduction to the History of Science (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #376, 3 volumes in 5; c1927-1948), by George Sarton
  • Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volumes 2-3 (in 4 parts): page images at HathiTrust
• Science Since Babylon (enlarged edition; New York and London: Yale University Press, c1975), by Derek J. de Solla Price (multiple formats at derekdesollaprice.org)
• Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast, With Additions (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), by John Tyndall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML with commentary at Victorian Web
• A History of Science (10 volumes, plus key and index volume; 1904-1910), by Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org, Google, and Gutenberg)
• Antient Metaphysics: or, The Science of Universals (6 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and Co.; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779-1799), by James Burnett Monboddo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (5 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1866), by Alexander von Humboldt, trans. by E. C. Otté, B. H. Paul, and W. S. Dallas
  • 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
• Darwin and Modern Science: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of Species, ed. by A. C. Seward (Gutenberg text)
• A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1898 edition), by Andrew Dickson White
  • HTML at bactra.org
  • HTML at defendgaia.org
• The Warfare of Science (1876 edition), by Andrew Dickson White (page images at MOA)
• Natural History Lore and Legend (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at Google)

• The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron, and Robin E. Rider (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scientific Temper: An Anthology of Stories on Matters of Science (c2001), by Anthony R. Michaelis (linked PDF files with commentary here at Penn)

• Three Unusual Scientists: John Keely, Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell: Three One-Act Plays, by Martha Keltz (PDF, text, Word, and RTF at studioeditions.com)

• Acta Baltica: Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum (2013-) (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (partial serial archives)
• Isis (partial serial archives)

• Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (Cham et al.: SpringerOpen, c2015), ed. by Doug Dechow and Daniele Carlo Struppa (PDF and Epub with commentary at springer.com)

• Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (Oakland: University of California Press, 2025), by Anita Say Chan (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, by John William Draper (Gutenberg text)
• A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1898 edition), by Andrew Dickson White
  • HTML at bactra.org
  • HTML at defendgaia.org
• The Warfare of Science (1876 edition), by Andrew Dickson White (page images at MOA)
• Some Remarks on Mr. Walton's Appendix Which He Wrote in Reply to the Author of the Minute Philosopher, Concerning Motion and Velocity (1736), by John Hanna (PDF and other formats in Ireland)

• Little Science, Big Science ...and Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), by Derek J. de Solla Price (PDF with commentary at derekdesollaprice.org)

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