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Appendix 1: Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophers
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)
Becher, Johann Joachim (1635-1682)
Beeckman, Isaac (1588-1637)
Benoulli, Jakob (1654-1705)
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679)
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
Comenius, Jan Amos (1592-1670)
Conway, Anne (1631-1678) [Not in DSB!]
Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665)
Fludd, Robert (1574-1637)
Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
Glanvill, Joseph (1636-1680)
Glauber, Johann Rudolph (1604-1670)
Halley, Edmund (ca. 1656-1743)
Hartlib, Samuel (d. 1662)
Harvey, William (1578-1657)
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Hooke, Robert (1635-1702)
Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van (1632-1723)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Locke, John (1632-1704)
Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694)
Mersenne, Marin (1588-1648)
Oldenburg, Henry (ca. 1618-1677)
Pascal, Étienne (1588-1651)
Ray, John (1627-1705)
Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)
Swammerdam, Jan (1637-1680)
Steno, Nicolaus (1638-1686)
Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)
Wallis, John (1616-1703)
Appendix 2: Images of Newton and "Newtonianism(s)"
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night;d'Alembert, Jean. Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot [1751]. Transl. Richard N. Schwab. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Alexander Pope
Boerhaave, Herman. A new method of chemistry; including the history, theory and practice of the art. Trans. Shaw, Peter. London: Longman, 1741. [Spec Coll.]
Boltzmann, Ludwig. "On the principles of mechanics, I" [1900]. In Theoretical physics and philosophical problems; selected writings., pp. 129-46. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de. The system of natural history. Abridged. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, R. Morrison and Son, 1795.
[Blake, William] See Essick, Robert N. "Blake's Newton." Blake newsletter, 3 (1970-71), 149-62. Consider Blake's color print of Newton, and at least one of his literary works (e.g., "Song of Los," or "Book of Los"). See also Donald Ault, Visionary physics: Blake's response to Newton (Chicago, 1974).
Condorcet, Antoine-Nicolas de. Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind [1795]. Transl. June Barraclough. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. Esp. stages 8-10.
Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin's experiments. Ed. I. Bernard Cohen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941.
*s'Gravesande, Willem Jacob van. Mathematical elements of natural philosophy confirm'd by experiments. 4th ed. London: Senex, 1731. [Storage QC/19/G788xph]
Haller, Albrecht. A dissertation on the sensible and irritable parts of animals [1752]. Transl. of 1755 in Bulletin of the history of medicine, 4 (1936), 651-99.
Hales, Stephen. Statical essays [1733]. New York, 1964. Especially chapt. entitled "Analysis of airs."
Pemberton, Henry. A view of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy. London, S. Palmer, 1728.
Pope, Alexander. An essay on man [. In Pope's Poetical works, ed.Herbert Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Priestley, Joseph. Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit [1777]. Reprint ed. New York: Garland, 1976. Especially sections 1-8.
Robison, John. A system of mechanical philosophy. Edinburgh: J. Murray, 1822.
[Thomson, James]. See Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Newton demands the muse (Princeton, 1946), and examine one of Thomson's poems (e.g., "To the memory of Sir Isaac Newton," "The seasons," or "Liberty").
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. The elements of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy [1738]. London: Cass, 1967.
Whewell, William. History of the inductive sciences. London, 1837.
Appendix 3: Historians on the social impacts of Darwin
Bannister, Robert C. Social Darwinism: Science and myth in Anglo-American social thought. Philadelphia, 1979.
Bellomy, Donald C. "Social Darwinism' revisited." Perspectives in American history, N.S. 1 (1984), 1-129.
Breman, Jan, ed. Imperial monkey business: Racial supremacy in Social Darwinist theory and colonial practice. Amsterdam, 1990.
Clark, Linda. Social Darwinism in France. University, Alabama, 1984.
Crook, David Paul. Benjamin Kidd : portrait of a social Darwinist. Cambridge, 1984.
Beer, Gillian de. Charles Darwin. London, 1963.
________. Darwin's plots: Evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and nineteenth-century fiction. London, 1983.
Dale, Peter Allan. In pursuit of a scientific culture: Science, art and society in the Victorian Age. Madison, 1989.
Degler, Carl N. In search of human nature: The decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought. New York, 1991.
Durant, John, ed. Darwinism and divinity. Oxford, 1985.
Gasman, Daniel. The scientific origins of National Socialism: social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League. New York, 1971.
Greene, John C. The death of Adam: Evolution and its impact on Western thought. Ames, 1959.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. Darwin and the Darwinian revolution. New York, 1959.
Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American thought. Rev. ed. Boston, 1955.
Kelly, Alfred. The descent of Darwin: The popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914. Chapel Hill, 1981.
Krasner, James. The entangled eye: Visual perception and the representation of nature in post-Darwinian narrative. Oxford, 1992.
Levine, George. Darwin and the novelists: Patterns of science in Victorian fiction. Cambridge, 1988.
Mitman, Gregg. "Evolution as gospel: William Patten, the language of democracy, and the Great War." Isis, 81 (1990), 446-63. [NB: Patten was a biology professor at Dartmouth!]
Moore, James R. The post-Darwinian controversies: A study in the Protestant struggle to come to terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900. Cambridge, 1979.
________. "Socializing Darwinism: Historiography and the fortunes on a phrase." In Science as politics, pp. 38-80. Ed. Les Levidow. London, 1986.
Morton, Peter. The vital science: Biology and the literary imagination, 1860-1900. London, 1984.
Pancaldi, Giuliano. Darwin in Italy: Science across cultural frontiers [1983 in Italian]. Bloomington, 1991.
Paul, Harry W. The edge of contingency : French Catholic reaction to scientific change from Darwin to Duhem. Gainesville, 1979.
Paxton, Nancy L. George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, evolutionism, and the reconstruction of gender. Princeton, 1991.
Roberts, Jon H. Darwinism and the divine: Protestant intellectuals and organic evolution, 1859-1900. Madison, 1988.
Todes, Daniel Philip. Darwin without Malthus: The struggle for existence in Russian evolutionary thought. New York, 1989.
Young, Robert M. Darwin's metaphor: Nature's place in Victorian culture. Cambridge, 1985.