Bunch Bryan, Hellemans Alexander. The History of Science and Technology

Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. — 785 p. — ISBN: 9780618221233.Welcome to a complicated book that I think will be easy to read and use. Most histories of science or technology present a highly selected story of the most important discoveries. The History of Science and Technology takes a different approach. While there are narrative accounts of more than a hundred different topics –– these are the short essays that have gray backgrounds to distinguish them from other elements of the book –– the main body of the book is a chronicle of virtually everything that has happened in science and technology, including false steps and ignored precursors. Cross references, labeled See also, direct the reader to the related material that begins, continues, or concludes a line of investigation. Thus, there are thousands of separate histories embedded in the chronicle section. A comprehensive index provides yet another way to follow a particular line of developmentScience and Technology before Scientists:through 599 BCE
Science and Technology in Antiquity:600 BCE through 529 CE
Medieval Science and Technology:530 through 1452
The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: 1453 through 1659
Scientific Method: Measurement and Communication: 1660 through 1734
The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution: 1735 through 1819
Science and Technology in the 19th Century: 1820 through 1894
Rise of Modern Science and Technology:1895 through 1945
Big Science and the Post-Industrial Society: 1946 through 1972
The Information Age: 1973 through 2003
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