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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Reference Sources

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Encyclopedias/ Dictionaries

History of cartography by J. B. Harley (Editor); David Woodward (Editor)
Call Number: GA201 .H53 1987
History of Magic and Experimental Science by Lynn Thorndike
Call Number: Q125 .T52 1923
History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition by Gary B. Ferngren (Editor); Edward J. Larson (Editor); Darrel W. Amundsen (Editor)
Call Number: BL245 .H57 2000
History of Science: Medieval Science by David C. Lindberg; Michael H. Shank
Part of the Cambridge History of Science
Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri; Jere L. Bacharach
Call Number: Ref DS36.85 .M434 2006
Available in print in Reference Collection, Lewis Annex
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine by Thomas F. Glick; Steven John Livesey; Steven J. Livesey (Editor); Faith Wallis (Editor); Thomas Glick (Editor)
Call Number: Q124.97 .M43 2005
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages by Robert Bjork (Editor)
ebook
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell

Biographical Dictionaries

Miniature of the earth, with God and angels at the top, and falling angels becoming devils.
British Library MS Egerton 2781, f. 1v

Dictionary of scientific biography
Q141 .D5

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Search across all the volumes and supplements of the second edition of Encyclopedia of World Biography.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Find biographies of deceased persons of note (either good or bad) associated with the British Isles from the fourth century BC to 2000. This subscription provides for use by one person at a time.
Personennamen des Mittelalters
Pius Special Collections/ VFL
Z695.1.P4 P47 2000

Namensformen für 13 000 Personen gemäss den Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung