The 18th Century Search for the Blue Nile

Suggested Readings

1) James Bruce of Kinnaird by Edward Ullendorff 

Ullendorff, Edward. "James Bruce of Kinnaird." The Scottish Historical Review 32, no. 114, Part 2 (1953): 128-43. Accessed 2015. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/25526204?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents/>. 

 

2) Cultures of Natural History by Nicholas Jardine 

Nicholas Jardine, Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 

 

3) Natural History by Pliny the Elder, translated by H. Rackham 

Pliny, and H. Rackham. Natural History, Vol. 4. Books 12-16. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. 

 

4) "Aristotle's Natural Philosophy" from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

Bodnar, Istvan, "Aristotle's Natural Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aristotle-natphil/>

 

5) "Aristotle's Biology" from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Lennox, James, "Aristotle's Biology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/aristotle-biology/>.

 

6) The Science of Description: Natural History in Renaissance Europe by Brian Ogilvie  

 

7) History without Time: Buffon's Natural History as a Nonmathematical Physique by Thierry Hoquet 

Hoquet, Thierry."History without Time: Buffon's Natural History as a Nonmathematical Physique" in Isis, Vol. 101, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 30-61 accessed 2015. Jstor. <http://www.jstor.org/>
Suggested Readings