Texts 

   Garland Allen (1978). Life Science in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge.

   George Basalla (1988). The Evolution of Technology. Cambridge.

  *Jacob Bronowski (1973). The Ascent of Man. Folio Society.

   Janet Browne (1995). Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Knopf.
                           (2002). Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Knopf.
                         *(2004). Origin of Species: Penguin Books Great Ideas edition. [Four-chapter introduction for non-specialist]

    Elof Axel Carlson (2018). How Scientific Progress Occurs. Cold Spring Harbor.
  
    William Coleman (1977) Biology in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge.

    Charles Darwin (1859). Origin of Species. Harvard. [1959 facsimile of 1st edition].

    Daniel C. Dennett (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Beacon. 
                                            
  *Loren Eiseley (1959). Darwin's Century. Doubleday.
                            (1960). Firmament of Time. Doubleday.
                            [See also new two-volume edition in Library of America series]

    Andrew Ede & Lesley B. Cormack (2017). A History of Science in Society, 3rd ed. U Toronto.
                                                           Vol. 1. From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution.
                                                           Vol. 2. From the Scientific Revolution to the Present.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Harvard.

     Edward Grant (1996) The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. Cambridge.

    John Gribbin (2002). History of Western Science, 1543 - 2001. Penguin. [Folio reprint 2012].

    Thomas L. Hankins (1985). Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge.

    *Richard Hofstader (1955). Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860 -1915 (rev. ed.). Beacon.

    Russell Hopkins (2026). A History of Biology. Private printing.

    William Irvine (1955). Apes, Angels, and Victorians: Darwin, Huxley, & Evolution. McGraw-Hill.

    Horace Judson (1994). The Eighth Day of Creation. Cold Spring Harbor [Commemorative ed.; 1st ed. 1979]

    Benjamin Lewin (2023). Inside Science: Revolution in Biology and Its Impact. Cold Spring Harbor.

     Stanton J. Linden (2003). The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. Cambridge.

    GER Lloyd (1970). Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. WW Norton.
                       (1973). Greek Science after Aristotle. WW Norton.
                       [Single-volume reprint by Folio Society, 2002]

    Ernst Mayr (1994). One Long Argument [see especially Chapter 4: Darwin's Path]. Harvard University.

    Alondra Nelson (2016). The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Beacon Press.

    Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, & Eugenia Lean (eds.) (2018) Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories. Osiris, Vol. 33.

   Alfred Sturtevant (1965). A History of Genetics. Harper & Row. [Cold Spring Harbor reprint, 1991]

   *G. Rattray Taylor (1963). The Science of Life: an Illustrated History. Thames.

    Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, & Jared Secord (2023). Medicine, Health, & Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean, 500 BCE - 600 CE. University of California.

     Ilza Veith (transl.) (1975). The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. University of California.

Web resources
  
    John van Wyhe (ed.) (2002), The writings of Charles Darwin on the web
                                                  [A virtual bookshelf of the complete works of Darwin]

    RM Eakin. Great Scientists Speak Again. [Link to Eakin's lectures as Harvey, Darwin, Mendel, Pasteur, Beaumont, & Spemann]

    Charles Darwin (1875) Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Brief biography of Darwin by John van Wyhe]

    Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: Complete works from Ancient Greece

    Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society [available on MUN server]

    Wikipedia Timeline of Women in Science

Web books [free, or almost]

    Complete Works of Aristotle [see esp Generation of Animals]
    Complete Works of Charles Darwin [see esp Origin of Species (1st ed), Descent of Man, Life & Letters]
    Complete Works of Plato [The classic translation by Benjamin Jowett: see esp. Chap 7 of The Republic for the Image of the Cave]
    Thomas Huxley Life & Letters of Thomas Huxley [see also Evolution of Man]
    Charles Lyell (1830) Principles of Geology. [Web has 1875 edition; Penguin reprints 1st edition of 1830]
    Gregor Mendel (1867) Experiments in Plant Hybridization. [see William Bateson translation and commentary, 1913]
    William Paley (1802) Natural Theology.

Philosophy of Biology & Science

  *Thomas Kuhn (1963). Structure of Scientific Revolutions. U Chicago. [50th anniversary edition, 2013]
    Paul Feyerabend (1975). Against Method. Cambridge.
    David Hull (1974). Philosophy of Biology. Prentice-Hall.
    Imre Lakatos (1970). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge.
    Karl Popper (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Cambridge.
                         (1963). Conjecture and Refutation. Cambridge.
    Bertrand Russell (1961). A History of Western Philosophy. 2nd edition. Folio.
    Stephen Toulmin (1953). The Philosophy of Science.
    RS Westfall (1977). The Construction of Modern Science. Cambridge.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1921). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.