19. HISTORY OF SPECIAL SCIENCES 



We now offer our readers a selection of books dealing with special sciences, 

 and sometimes with special branches of those sciences. For example, some books 

 cover the whole history of mathematics, others deal only with the history of 

 geometry, others are restricted to the history of projective geometry, others still 

 discuss but one aspect of that geometry, the introduction of imaginary elements. 

 It is impossible to extend this bibliography to every ramification of each subject, 

 nor is that necessary. The relatively few items mentioned will suffice to enable 

 ingenious students to continue their bibliographical investigations as far as they 

 may wish; the references to Isis will enable them to find a great many additional 

 items classified together with the items specifically referred to. 



This chapter is subdivided very much like Part III in the Critical Bibliography 

 of Isis, except that a number of sections dealing with marginal subjects have been 

 omitted, as well as the whole of the first group "Science in general" to which 

 other chapters are devoted (for Bibhography of science, see chapters 9 to 12, for 

 History of science, chapters 14 and 15, for Organization of science, chapter 8, for 

 Philosophy of science, chapter 7). For the history of special instruments (tele- 

 scope, microscope, etc. ) see chapter 16. Photography and Chronometry, however, 

 are dealt with below after Technology. 



LOGIC 



Historians of logic are seldom able to isolate their subject sufficiently from 

 the history of epistemology or of other branches of philosophy. Any scholar in- 

 terested in the history of logic would be obliged to use many books dealing with 

 the history of philosophy (books which cannot be enumerated here). Historians 

 of science who pay special attention to the logical problems will find pertinent 

 data in the books deahng with the philosophy of science {see section 7). 



WESTERN LOGIC 



Adamson, Robert (1852-1902): 



1911: A short history of logic (276 p., Edinburgh). 



Boll, Marcel ( 1886- ) : 



1948: Manuel de logique scientifique (554 p., 192 fig., tables, Paris). 



Amplification of the author's Elements de logique scientifique (250 p., Paris 

 1942). 



Church, Alonzo (1903- ): 



1936: Bibliography of symbolic logic (from 1666 to 1935). 



Reprinted from the Journal of Symbohc Logic ( 1, 121-218, Menasha, Wis- 

 consin). 



Enriques, Federigo (1871-1946): 



1922: Per la storia della logica: I principii e I'ordine della scienza nel concetto 

 dei pensatori matematici (302 p., Bologna; Isis 5, 469). — French translation (Paris 

 1926). — German translation (Leipzig 1927). — EngUsh translation (282 p., New 

 York 1929). 



Prantl, Carl von (1820-88): 



1855-70: Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande (4 vols., Leipzig). 



Scholz, Heinrich: 



1931: Geschichte der Logik (86 p., Berlin). 



