An anthology of influential literature published in the history of science in English.

Table of Contents:

"History of Science in a World of Readers: Frames of References for Global Exchange"
Angela N. H. Creager, Dagmar Schäfer

"The Openness of Knowledge: An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy"
Pamela O. Long

"Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France"
Gabriele Hecht

"Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China: An Essay in the Cultural History of Technology"
Francesca Bray

"Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics"
Reviel Netz

"The Possession of Kuru: Medical Science and Biocolonial Exchange"
Warwick Anderson

"Knowledge in Transit"
James A. Secord

"Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the Green Revolution in Mexico"
Jonathan Harwood

English Version

The English online version is published by Edition Open Access.