she-philosopher.com: studies in the history of science and culture

© April 2004
revised 28 September 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: All webessays at she-philosopher.com are authored by Deborah Taylor-Pearce, unless otherwise noted on the page itself. These HTML publications are not listed separately below, because of their proliferating number and evolving states. See the Conditions of Use page for suggested citation formats.



A–E | F–J | K–O | P–T | U–Z |

secondary texts: A–E

Aberley, Doug. “Eye memory: the inspiration of aboriginal mapping.” Chapt. 2 of Boundaries of home: mapping for local empowerment. Ed. by Doug Aberley. Gabriola Island, B.C. and Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1993. 8–16.

Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Allen, David Y. “The so-called ‘Velasco map’: a case of forgery?” Pub. in the e-journal, Coordinates: the online journal of the map and geography round table of the American Library Association, series A, no. 5 (14 February 2006). Accessed 23 June 2006; < http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesa/no5/a5.htm >.

Complete text available online, in PDF and HTML formats.

Almack, Edward. A bibliography of The king’s book, or Eikon basilike. London: Blades, East & Blades, 1896.

Alpers, Svetlana. The art of describing: Dutch art in the seventeenth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Anderson, Ray C., with Robin White. Confessions of a radical industrialist: profits, people, purpose — doing business by respecting the earth. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009.

Andrade, E. N. da C. “Galileo.” Notes and records of the Royal Society 19.2 (Dec. 1964): 120–30.

Anselment, Raymond A. “Lovelace, Richard (1617–1657), poet and army officer.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008. Accessed 25 July 2008, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17056 >.

Appleby, John H. “Human curiosities and the Royal Society, 1699–1751.” Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 50.1 (Jan. 1996): 13–27.

Arber, Edward. Introduction. Capt. John Smith: of Willoughby by Alford, Lincolnshire; president of Virginia, and admiral of New England. Works. 1608–1631. 2 vols. Ed. by Edward Arber. The English scholar’s library of old and modern works (vols. 4–5), no. 16. 1884; rpt. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. i: xix–cxxxvi.

Arber, Edward. Preface. Capt. John Smith: of Willoughby by Alford, Lincolnshire; president of Virginia, and admiral of New England. Works. 1608–1631. 2 vols. Ed. by Edward Arber. The English scholar’s library of old and modern works (vols. 4–5), no. 16. 1884; rpt. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. i: ix–xviii.

Asch, Ronald G. “Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart] (1596–1662), queen of Bohemia and electress palatine, consort of Frederick V.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008. Accessed 8 August 2008, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8638 >.

Bailey, Harold. The lost language of symbolism: an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. 2 vols. London: Ernest Benn, [1957].

Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The dialogic imagination: four essays. Ed. by Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. 1981; rpt. Austin: U of Texas P, 1990.

Ball, Philip. The self-made tapestry: pattern formation in nature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Barbour, Philip L. The three worlds of Captain John Smith. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.

Bastin, John Sturgus, and Bea Brommer. Nineteenth century prints and illustrated books of Indonesia with particular reference to the print collection of the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam: a descriptive bibliography. Utrecht: Spectrum, 1979.

Batho, Gordon Richard. “The finances of an Elizabethan nobleman: Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland, 1564–1632.” Economic history review, 2nd ser. 9.3 (1957): 433–50.

Baxter, Leslie A., and Barbara M. Montgomery. Relating: dialogues and dialectics. New York and London: Guilford, 1996.

Bazeley, Deborah Taylor. An early challenge to the precepts and practice of modern science: the fusion of fact, fiction, and feminism in the works of Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673). Diss. U of California, San Diego, 1990. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1990. 9023994.

An HTML transcription of my dissertation is available in the she-philosopher.com Library: see Lib. Cat. No. DTB1990.

Bazeley, Deborah Taylor. Women as audience and author of scientific discourse: a study of early English popularization literature. Unpublished qualifying paper for C.Phil. exams, Dept. of Literature, U of California, San Diego. Winter Quarter 1985.

An HTML transcription of this qualifying paper is available in the she-philosopher.com Library: see Lib. Cat. No. DTB1985.

Beal, Peter. In praise of scribes: manuscripts and their makers in seventeenth-century England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Beggs, Donald. “Sor Juana’s feminism: from Aristotle to Irigaray.” In Hypatia’s daughters: fifteen hundred years of women philosophers. Ed. by Linda Lopez McAlister. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. 108–127.

Bennett, Judith M. Ale, beer, and brewsters in England: women’s work in a changing world, 1300–1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Berry, Helen. “Dunton, John (1659–1732), bookseller.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 20 April 2007, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8299 >.

Bickley, Francis Lawrence. The Cavendish family. London: Constable and Co., 1911.

Biggs, Julie L. “The techniques of etching and engraving.” In Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar. By Rachel Doggett, Julie L. Biggs, and Carol Brobeck. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library; Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1996. 59–69.

Boogaart, Ernst van den. “De Brys’ Africa.” In Inszenierte welten: die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590–1630 / Staging new worlds: de Brys’ illustrated travel reports, 1590–1630. Ed. by Susanna Burghartz. Basel: Schwabe, 2004. 95–155.

Boose, Lynda E. “‘The getting of a lawful race’: racial discourse in early modern England and the unrepresentable black woman.” In Women, “race,” and writing in the early modern period. Eds. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 35–54.

Booth, Michael. “Thomas Harriot’s translations.” Yale journal of criticism: interpretation in the humanities 16.2 (Fall 2003): 345–361.

Bosworth, C. E. “A pioneer Arabic encyclopedia of the sciences: al Khwarizmi’s Keys of the Sciences.” Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences 54 (1963): 97–111.

Bradby, Kenneth. A comparison of 17th-century Pocahontas narratives & the play by “Powhatan’s Pamunkey Indian braves.” In Brief topic webessay at the she-philosopher.com website. Copyright 2006 < http://www.she-philosopher.com/ib/topics/Bradby_1898play.html >.

Bradby, Kenneth. Pamunkey speaks: native perspectives. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2008.

Brenan, Gerald. A history of the house of Percy: from the earliest times down to the present century. Ed. by W. A. Lindsay. 2 vols. London: Freemantle & Co., 1902.

Brody, Miriam. Manly writing: gender, rhetoric, and the rise of composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Uuniversity Press, 1993.

Brown, Alexander. The Genesis of the United States. A narrative of the movement in England, 1605–1616, which resulted in the plantation of North America by englishmen, disclosing the contest between England and Spain for the possession of the soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of historical manuscripts now first printed together with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts, accompanied by bibliographical memoranda, notes, and brief biographies. Collected, arranged, and edited by Alexander Brown. 2 vols. 1890; rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964.

Bryson, Anna. “The rhetoric of status: gesture, demeanour and the image of the gentleman in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.” In Renaissance bodies: the human figure in English culture c. 1540–1660. Eds. Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn. London: Reaktion Books, 1990. 136–153.

Burghartz, Susanna. “The imagined worlds of de Bry and sons, publishers.” In Inszenierte welten: die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590–1630 / Staging new worlds: de Brys’ illustrated travel reports, 1590–1630. Ed. by Susanna Burghartz. Trans. by Pamela Selwyn. Basel: Schwabe, 2004. 13–17.

Bushnell, David I., Jr. “Discoveries beyond the Appalachian mountains in September, 1671.” American anthropologist, new series 9.1 (Jan.–March 1907): 45–56.

Bushnell, David I., Jr. “Virginia — from early records.” American anthropologist, new series 9.1 (Jan.–Mar. 1907): 31–44.

Campbell, Tony. “Letter punches: a little-known feature of early engraved maps.” Print quarterly 4.2 (June 1987): 151–4.

A digital edition of Tony’s essay (posted to the Web in June 2008) is available at his gateway website on the history of cartography.

Campbell, Tony. “Understanding engraved maps.” The map collector 46 (Spring 1989): 2–14.

A digital edition of Tony’s essay (posted to the Web in May 2006, with illustrations added March 2007 by John Woram) is available at his gateway website on the history of cartography. Although Tony’s focus here is on pre-1850 “old maps” and copper engraving (not woodcut or lithography), I recommend his article to those interested in any kind of early-modern printed graphic image. Tony’s introductory guidelines for cartobibliographic study apply to the detailed study of other period prints, as well.

Cape, Robert W., Jr. “Prudence.” In Encyclopedia of rhetoric. Ed. by Thomas O. Sloane. New York: Oxford Uuniversity Press, 2001. 637–40.

Carey, John. “Ireland and the Antipodes: The Heterodoxy of Virgil of Salzburg.” Speculum 64.1 (1989): 1–10.

Christadler, Maike. “Die sammlung zur schau gestellt: die titelblätter der America-serie.” In Inszenierte welten: die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590–1630 / Staging new worlds: de Brys’ illustrated travel reports, 1590–1630. Ed. by Susanna Burghartz. Basel: Schwabe, 2004. 47–93.

Clucas, Stephen. “‘Noble virtue in extremes’: Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland, patronage and the politics of stoic consolation.” Renaissance studies 9.3 (Sept. 1995): 267–91.

Cogswell, Thomas. “Underground verse and the transformation of early Stuart political culture.” In Political culture and cultural politics in early modern Europe: essays presented to David Underdown. Eds. Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 277–300.

Cohen, Paul E., and Robert T. Augustyn. Manhattan in Maps, 1527–1995. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1997.

Coleman, Joyce. Public reading and the reading public in late medieval England and France. Cambridge studies in medieval literature, no. 26. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cope, Jackson I., and Harold Whitmore Jones, eds. History of the Royal Society. By Thomas Sprat. London, 1667. Facs. rpt. Washington University studies, ser. 3, no. 7. St. Louis: [Washington University], 1958.

Craske, Matthew. “Plan and control: design and the competitive spirit in early and mid-eighteenth-century England.” Journal of design history 12.3 (1999): 187–216.

Crawford, Mary. Talking difference: on gender and language. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Croft, Pauline. “Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury (1563–1612).” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford University Press, Sept. 2004; online edition, May 2006. Accessed 8 Dec. 2006, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4980 >.

Cumming, William P., R. A. Skelton, and D. B. Quinn. The discovery of North America. 1971; New York: American Heritage Press, 1972.

Darlington, Oscar G. “Gerbert, the teacher.” The American historical review 52.3 (1947): 456–76.

Davies, Tony. “The ark in flames: science, language and education in seventeenth-century England.” In The figural and the literal: problems of language in the history of science and philosophy, 1630–1800. Eds. Andrew E. Benjamin, Geoffrey N. Cantor, and John R.R. Christie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987. 83–102.

Davis, Herbert, and Harry Carter, eds. Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing, 1683–4. By Joseph Moxon. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Denkstein, Vladimír. Hollar drawings. Prague: Odeon, 1977. English trans. by D. Orpington, with captions by Michael Kitson. London: Orbis Publishing, 1979.

Dick, Oliver Lawson. “The life and times of John Aubrey.” In Brief lives. Edited from the original manuscripts and with an introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick. By John Aubrey. 3rd edn. 1949; London: Secker and Warburg, 1960. xvii–cx.

Doggett, Rachel, Julie L. Biggs, and Carol Brobeck. Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library; Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1996.

Downes, Kerry. “Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723), architect, mathematician, and astronomer.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, May 2009. Accessed 20 September 2009, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30019 >.

Drake, Ellen Tan. Restless genius: Robert Hooke and his earthly thoughts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Edwards, Jess. “How to read an early modern map: between the particular and the general, the material and the abstract, words and mathematics.” Early modern literary studies 9.1 (May 2003).

A digital edition of this article is available at the EMLS website.

Eisler, Colin T. Dürer’s animals. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Evans, Michael. “Allegorical women and practical men: the iconography of the artes reconsidered.” In Medieval women. Ed. by Derek Baker. Studies in Church History, Subsidia, 1. Oxford: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by B. Blackwell, 1978.

Evans, Michael W. “The geometry of the mind.” Architectural Association quarterly 12.4 (1980): 32–55.

An HTML transcription of this journal essay is available in the she-philosopher.com LIBRARY: see Lib. Cat. No. MWE1980. This Library e-text is supplemented by a separate Gallery exhibit featuring the essay’s 28 illustrations in multiple resolutions: see the Gallery exhibit on “Medieval Information Design, 12th through 15th centuries”.

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secondary texts: F–J

Finkelpearl, P. J. “Davies, John (1564/5–1618).” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford University Press, Sept. 2004; online edition, May 2006. Accessed 1 Jan. 2007, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7244 >.

Fite, Emerson D., and Archibald Freeman. A book of old maps, delineating American history from the earliest days down to the close of the revolutionary war, compiled and edited by Emerson D. Fite & Archibald Freeman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.

Foster, John Bellamy. Marx’s ecology: materialism and nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.

Frame, Donald M. Introduction. The complete essays of Montaigne. Trans. and ed. by Donald M. Frame. 1948; Stanford: Stanford UP, 1958. v–xiv.

Gagen, Jean Elisabeth. The new woman: her emergence in English drama, 1600–1730. New York: Twayne, 1954.

Gaines, Robert A. “Phronesis.” In Encyclopedia of rhetoric. Ed. by Thomas O. Sloane. New York: Oxford Uuniversity Press, 2001. 601–03.

Garrard, Mary D. Artemisia Gentileschi: the image of the female hero in Italian baroque art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Garrard, Mary D. “Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as the allegory of painting.” The art bulletin 62.1 (March 1980): 97–112.

Gelder, Jan Gerrit van. Dutch drawings and prints. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1959.

Gerritsen, Johan. “The Eikon in Holland.” In Studia bibliographica in honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey. Ed. by S. van der Woude. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1966 [1968]. 129–143.

Giard, Luce. “Remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions.” In Science, culture and popular belief in renaissance Europe. Eds. Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. 19–47.

Gilroy, Paul. Against race: imagining political culture beyond the color line. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

Gilroy, Paul. The black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Glanville, Ranulph. “Mapping realities.” Architectural Association quarterly 12.4 (1980): 20–31.

Godfrey, Richard T. “Wenceslaus Hollar.” In Wenceslaus Hollar: a Bohemian artist in England. By Richard T. Godfrey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 1–34.

Golinski, Jan. “Science peace?” Book review of The one culture? A conversation about science, edited by Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins. Online edition, American scientist, Jan.–Feb. 2002 issue. Accessed 23 April 2007, from < http://americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads02/theoneculture.html >.

Grant, Douglas. Margaret the first: a biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623–1673. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.

Griffiths, Antony, and Gabriela Kesnerová. Wenceslaus Hollar: prints and drawings from the collections of the National Gallery, Prague, and the British Museum, London. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1983.

Griggs, William. Indian art at Marlborough House and Sandringham: illustrated in collotype, and photo-chromo-lithography. Introd. by George C. M. Birdwood. London: W. Griggs, 1892.

Groesen, Michiel van. “De Bry and Antwerp, 1577–1585. A formative period.” In Inszenierte welten: die west- und ostindischen Reisen der Verleger de Bry, 1590–1630 / Staging new worlds: de Brys’ illustrated travel reports, 1590–1630. Ed. by Susanna Burghartz. Basel: Schwabe, 2004. 18–45.

Gunther, R. T. Early science in Oxford. Vol. VI. The life and work of Robert Hooke (part I). Oxford, 1930; rpt. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968.

Habermas, Jürgen. “Modernity — an incomplete project.” In The anti-aesthetic: essays in postmodern culture. Ed. by Hal Foster. Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.

Habermas, Jürgen. “Modernity versus postmodernity.” New German critique 22 (Winter 1981): 3–4.

Habermas, Jürgen. The philosophical discourse of modernity: twelve lectures. Trans. Frederick Lawrence. 1987; 5th rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Hacking, Ian. Representing and intervening: introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science. 1983; 7th rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Hannaway, Owen. The chemists and the word: the didactic origins of chemistry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Harris, Ann Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women artists: 1550–1950. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Hatley, M. Thomas. Introduction to part 3, “Symbols and society.” In Powhatan’s mantle: Indians in the colonial southeast. Eds. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 249–53.

Hawking, Stephen. The universe in a nutshell. New York: Bantam, 2001.

Heller, Nancy G. Women artists: an illustrated history. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

hooks, bell. Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston: South End Press, 1991.

Hulton, Paul. America, 1585: the complete drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, 1984.

Hunter, Michael. Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society. Wolfeboro, NH: Boydell Press, 1989.

Irwin, Joyce L. Whether a Christian woman should be educated and other writings from her intellectual circle. By Anna Maria van Schurman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Jackson, Holbrook. Introduction. The anatomy of melancholy. By Robert Burton. Ed. by Holbrook Jackson. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1932. Rpt. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. v–xvii.

Jardine, Lisa. Ingenious pursuits: building the scientific revolution. New York: Nan A. Talese, 1999.

Jardine, Lisa. On a grander scale: the outstanding career of Sir Christopher Wren. London: HarperCollins, 2002.

Jarratt, Susan, and Rory Ong. “Aspasia: rhetoric, gender, and colonial ideology.” In Reclaiming rhetorica: women in the rhetorical tradition. Ed. by Andrea A. Lunsford. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 9–24.

Jed, Stephanie. “The tenth muse: gender, rationality, and the marketing of knowledge.” In Women, “race” and writing in the early modern period. Eds. Patricia Parker and Margo Hendricks. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 195–209.

Jones, Ann Rosalind. The currency of eros: women’s love lyric in Europe, 1540–1620. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1990.

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secondary texts: K–O

King, Catherine. “Looking a sight: sixteenth-century portraits of woman artists.” Zeitschrift für kunstgeschichte, 58 Bd., H. 3. (1995): 381–406.

Koreny, Fritz. Albrecht Dürer and the animal and plant studies of the Renaissance. Trans. from the German by Pamela Marwood and Yehuda Shapiro. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

Lethem, Jonathan. “The ecstasy of influence: a plagiarism.” Online edition, Harper’s Magazine, Feb. 2007 issue. Accessed 21 April 2007, from < http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 >.

Levin, David Michael. Introduction. In Sites of vision: the discursive construction of sight in the history of philosophy. Ed. by David Michael Levin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 1–67.

MacCarthy, B. G. Women writers: their contribution to the English novel, 1621–1744. 1944; rpt. Oxford: Blackwell, 1946.

Maddison, R. E. W. “Studies in the Life of Robert Boyle, F.R.S. Part VII. The Grand Tour.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society 20.1 (1965): 51–77.

Makepeace, Margaret. “Philips, Miles [alias Miguel Perez] (b. c.1554), mariner.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 27 Feb. 2009, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22125 >.

Mathes, Valerie Shirer. “A new look at the role of women in Indian society.” American Indian quarterly 2.2 (Summer 1975): 131–139.

McAlindon, Tom. “Testing the new historicism: Invisible Bullets reconsidered.” Studies in philology 92.4 (1995): 411–38.

McCartney, Martha W. “Cockacoeske, queen of Pamunkey: diplomat and suzeraine.” In Powhatan’s mantle: Indians in the colonial southeast. Eds. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 173–195.

McConnell, Anita. “Houghton, John (1645–1705), pharmacist and author.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 14 March 2007, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13868 >.

Mc Elligott, Jason. “Crouch, Nathaniel [pseud. Robert Burton] (c.1640–1725?), bookseller and writer.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 28 July 2008, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52645 >.

McEwen, Gilbert D. The oracle of the coffee house; John Dunton’s Athenian mercury. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1972.

McLemee, Scott. “Critic at the Carnival.” Book review of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin, by Caryl Emerson. The Nation (29 Dec. 1997): 16–18.

Merchant, Carolyn. The death of nature: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution. 1980; New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Merriam-Webster’s encyclopedia of world religions. Ed. by Wendy Doniger. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1999.

Miller, Lawrence A. “Virtual bookbinding.” Multimedia exhibit. Accessed 17 July 2006, from < http://www.cyclopaedia.org/virtual/bookbinding.html >.

This evolving, multi-page exhibit (with many high-resolution images) documents Lawrence’s research on early 18th-century Dutch bindings — a scholarly journey prompted by the restoration work needed on a First Stadholder binding in his possession. The scope of his project continues to expand, now incorporating detailed comparative study of 16th-century decorated bookbindings, decorative scrolling, and azured finishing tools.

Miller, Thomas P. “Treating professional writing as social praxis.” Journal of advanced composition 11.1 (199l): 57–72.

Montgomery, Scott L. Science in translation: movements of knowledge through cultures and time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Mook, Maurice A. “The ethnological significance of Tindall’s map of Virginia, 1608.” William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine, 2nd ser., 23.4 (Oct. 1943): 371–408.

Nicholl, Charles. The creature in the map: Sir Walter Ralegh’s quest for El Dorado. 1995; rpt. London: Vintage, 1996.

Ollard, Richard. The image of the King: Charles I and Charles II. London: Phoenix Press, 2000.

Otten, Charlotte F., ed. English women’s voices, 1540–1700. Miami: Florida International University Press, 1992.

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secondary texts: P–T

Pargellis, Stanley. “An account of the Indians in Virginia.” The William and Mary quarterly, 3rd ser. 16.2 (Apr. 1959): 228–43.

Parry, Graham. Hollar’s England: A mid-seventeenth-century view. London: Michael Russell, 1980.

Parry, Graham. “John Evelyn as hortulan saint.” In Culture and cultivation in early modern England: writing and the land. Eds. Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. 130–150.

Parsons, E. J. S., and W. F. Morris. “Edward Wright and his work.” Imago mundi 3 (1939): 61–71.

Parthey, Gustav. Wenzel Hollar, beschreibendes Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche. Berlin: Nicolai, 1853.

Paz, Octavio. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, o, las trampas de la fe. Segunda edición. 1982; México City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1983.

Pepper, Jon V. “The study of Thomas Hariot’s manuscripts, II: Hariot’s unpublished papers.” History of science 6 (1967): 17–40.

Perry, Henry Ten Eyck. The first Duchess of Newcastle and her husband as figures in literary history. Harvard Studies in English, vol. 4. Boston: Ginn, 1918. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1968.

Poovey, Mary. “Accommodating merchants: accounting, civility, and the natural laws of gender.” Differences 8.3 (Fall 1996): 1–20.

Potter, Lois. Secret rites and secret writing: royalist literature, 1641–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Potter, Stephen R. “Early English effects on Virginia Algonquian exchange and tribute in the tidewater Potomac.” In Powhatan’s mantle: Indians in the colonial southeast. Eds. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 151–172.

Praz, Mario. Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery. 2nd edn. Rome: Edizioni Di Storia e Letteratura, 1975.

Pritchard, Jonathan. “Head, Richard (c.1637–1686?), writer.” Oxford dictionary of national biography. Online edition, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 16 July 2008, from < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12810 >.

Raylor, Timothy. “Samuel Hartlib and the Commonwealth of bees.” In Culture and cultivation in early modern England: writing and the land. Ed. by Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992. 91–121.

Reilly, P. Conor, S.J. Athanasius Kircher S.J.: Master of a hundred arts, 1602–1680. Studia kircheriana, Bd. 1. Wiesbaden; Rom: Edizioni del Mondo, 1974.

Rickey, V. Frederick, and Philip M. Tuchinsky. “An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant.” Mathematics magazine 53.3 (May 1980): 162–66.

Riley, Edward M. “The Town Acts of colonial Virginia.” The journal of southern history 16.3 (Aug. 1950): 306–23.

Rostenberg, Leona. English publishers in the graphic arts, 1599–1700: A study of the print-sellers & publishers of engravings, art & architectural manuals, maps & copy-books. Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series, No. 42. New York: Burt Franklin, 1963.

Rountree, Helen C., and E. Randolph Turner, III. “On the fringe of the southeast: the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom in Virginia.” In The forgotten centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American south, 1521–1704. Eds. Charles Hudson and Carmen Chaves Tesser. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994. 355–372.

Rowland, Ingrid D. The ecstatic journey: Athanasius Kircher in baroque Rome. Introd. F. Sherwood Rowland. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2000.

Sams, Conway Whittle. The conquest of Virginia: the forest primeval; an account, based on original documents, of the Indians in that portion of the continent in which was established the first English colony in America, by Conway Whittle Sams .... New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916.

Schiebinger, Londa. The mind has no sex?: women in the origins of modern science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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