Books on History A chronological checklist of books in English, compiled by Alan J Clark with additions by Rupert Baker SPRAT, Thomas History of the Royal Society. London, 1667 ([xvi], 439p.). (Facsimile reprint, edited by J.I. Cope and H.W. Jones., St Louis MO, 1958. xxxiii, [xvi], 439, 78p.) BIRCH, Thomas History of the Royal Society of London [1660-1687]. London, 1756-7 (4 vols: 512, 501, 520, 558p.). (Facsimile reprints, New York: Johnson, 1968; Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1967-8) THOMSON, Thomas History of the Royal Society, from its institution to the end of the eighteenth century. London, 1812 (viii, 552, xci p.) WELD, Charles Richard A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents. London, 1848 (2 vols: xx, 527 pp.; viii, 611p.). (Facsimile reprint, Salem NH: Ayer, 1975. ISBN 0405066309) THE ROYAL SOCIETY The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of Natural Knowledge. 4th ed. [edited by Sir Henry Lyons]. London: Royal Society, 1940 (vii, 578p. ISBN 0854030433) Supplement 1940-1989. London: Royal Society, 1992 (v, 316p. ISBN 0854034633) LYONS, Henry George The Royal Society, 1660-1940: a history of its administration under its Charters. Cambridge, 1944 (x, 354p.) (Facsimile reprint, Westport CT; London: Greenwood, 1968. ISBN 0837101557) ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa A brief history of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society, 1960 ([v], 28p. ISBN 0854030328) THE ROYAL SOCIETY The Royal Society: its origins and founders, edited by Sir Harold Hartley. London, 1960 ([ix], 275p. ISBN 0854030395) HALL, Marie Boas All scientists now: the Royal Society in the nineteenth century. Cambridge; London: Cambridge University Press, 1984 (xii, 261p. ISBN 0521267463) HUNTER, Michael Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989 (xiv, 382p. ISBN 0851155065). HALL, Marie Boas Promoting experimental learning: experiment and the Royal Society, 1660-1727. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 (xiii, 207p. ISBN 0521405033) GLEASON, Mary Louise The Royal Society of London: years of reform, 1827-1847. New York NY; London: Garland, 1991 (ix, 532p. ISBN 0824074467) HALL, Marie Boas; CLARKE, Patricia H., contrib. The library and archives of the Royal Society 1660-1990. London: Royal Society, 1992 (vii, 81p., ISBN 0854034641) HUNTER, Michael The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: the morphology of an early scientific institution. 2nd ed. Chalfont St.Giles: British Society for the History of Science, 1994 (ix, 291p. ISBN 0906450098) ATKINSON, Dwight Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context: the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999 (xxxi, 208p. ISBN 0805820868) VALLE, Ellen A collective intelligence: the life sciences in the Royal Society as a scientific discourse community, 1665-1965. Turku: University of Turku, 1999 (xii, 490p. ISBN: 9512913828)
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