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The author is a mediaevalist who has edited an extraordinary large number of 

 MSS concerning science and magic. He was professor of mediaeval history in Co- 

 lumbia University, New York. Apart from these six heavy volumes he had pub- 

 lished a great many papers, some of which are listed in almost every Critical 

 Bibhography of Isis. 



Uccelli, Arturo (1889- ), editor: 



1941: Enciclopedia storica delle scienze e delle loro applicazioni. Vol. 1, Le 

 scienze fisiche e matematiche (folio 753 p., 1788 figs., 9 pi, Milano; Isis 36, 51). 



Book of the same kind as the French one by Urbain and Boll, including a large 

 number of illustrations of historical interest. 



1946: Scienza e tecnica del tempo nostro (Milano). — Originally planned as vol. 

 2 of the Enciclopedia storica (vol. 1, 846 p. 2137 ill., 6 pi., Milano; Isis 41, 85). 



Urbain, Georges (1872-1938); Boll, Marcel (editors): 



1933-34: La science, ses progres, ses applications (2 folio vols, of the Larousse 

 collection, richly illustrated, Paris; Isis 22, 397; 23, 578). Includes some 2500 

 illustrations a great many of which are historical documents. 



Whetham, see Dampier. 



Whewell, William (1794-1866): 



1837: History of the inductive sciences from the earliest to the present times (3 

 vols. London). — Revised ed., 1847; 3. ed., 1857. Pioneer work which has been 

 discussed in the text above. 



White, Andrew Dickson ( 1 832- 1 9 1 8 ) : 



1896: History of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom (2 vols., 

 New York).— Reprinted in 1923. 



White was an educator and diplomat, the first president of Cornell University in 

 Ithaca, New York. He was deeply interested in cultural history, and we might 

 even say in the history of science. He received much help from his former 

 student, George Lincoln Burr (1857-1938), himself a very distinguished Ameri- 

 can historian (Isis 35, 147-52, 1944). 



Wightman, William P. D.: 



1934: Science and monism (416 p., London). 



1950: The growth of scientific ideas (508 p., 8 pi., Edinburgh; Isis 42). 



Wolf, Abraham ( 1876- ) : 



1935-39: History of science, technology and philosophy in the sixteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries. With the cooperation of F. Dannemann and A. Armitage 

 (719 p., 316 illus., London; Isis 24, 164-67); idem in the eighteenth century (814 

 p., ill., London 1939; Isis 31, 450-51). 



This work, stemming out of the Dannemann one quoted above, deals only with 

 three centuries, the sixteenth to the eighteenth. 



See in the Critical Bibliographies of Isis, section 16. History of science. 



