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  2. Ackerman, Jennifer G. 2001. Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 0-7475-5820-5.
  3. Aczel, Amir D. 2005. Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 0-7679-2033-3.
  4. Aczel, Amir D. 2007. The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN: 978-1-59448-956-3.
  5. Adams, Frank Dawson. 1954. The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0-486-20005-1.
  6. Albala, Ken. 2002. Eating Right in the Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-22947-9.
  7. Andrews, Roy Chapman. 1945. Meet Your Ancestors. New York: The Viking Press.
  8. Andrews, Roy Chapman. 1953. All About Dinosaurs. New York: Random House.
  9. Angier, Natalie. 2007. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. Boston: Mariner Books. ISBN: 978-0-547-05346-2.
  10. Atalay, Bülent. 2004. Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci. Washintgon: Smithsonian Books. ISBN: 1-58834-171-2.
  11. Atkins, Peter. 2003. Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-860941-8.
  12. Attenborough, David, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton, and Rea Alexandratos. 2007. Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-12547-4.
  13. Bacon, Francis. 2001. The Advancement of Learning. New York: Modern Library. ISBN: 0-375-75846-1.
  14. Bakker, Robert T., George Callison, Mark Hallett, and David D. Gillette. 1987. Dinosaurs Past and Present: Volume I. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN: 0-938644-24-6.
  15. Ball, Phillip. 2006. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. New York: Farrar, Straus and Grioux. ISBN: 0-374-22979-1.
  16. Battistini, Matilde, and Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. 2004. Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN: 978-0-89236-907-2.
  17. Bedini, Silvio A. 1997. The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN: 0-14-028862-7.
  18. Bedini, Silvio A. 2002. Jefferson and Science. Chapel Hill: Monticello Monograph Series. ISBN: 1-882886-19-4.
  19. Bennett, Jim, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter, and Lisa Jardine. 2003. London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-852579-6.
  20. Benton, Michael J. 2003. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd. ISBN: 0-500-05116-X.
  21. Beretta, Marco, Editor. 2005. From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications. ISBN: 0-88135-360-4.
  22. Beretta, Marco, and Alessandro Tosi, Editors. 2007. Linnaeus in Italy: The Spread of a Revolution in Science. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications. ISBN: 0-88135-393-0.
  23. Berger, Lee R. 2000. In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins. Washington: National Geographic Adventure Press. ISBN: 0-7922-7728-7.
  24. Berra, Tim M. 2009. Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 0-8018-9104-3.
  25. Berreby, David. 2005. Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: 0-316-09030-1.
  26. Blunt, Wilfrid. 2001. Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-09636-8.
  27. Bolles, Edmund Blair, Editor. 1999. Galileo's Commandment: 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. ISBN: 0-7167-3693-4.
  28. Bolles, Edmund Blair. 1999. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. ISBN: 1-58243-030-6.
  29. Bondeson, Jan. 1999. The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 0-8014-3609-5.
  30. Bovey, Alixe. 2005. Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health. London: Sam Fogg. ISBN: 0-9549014-3-6.
  31. Bowler, Peter J., and Iwan Rhys Morus. 2005. Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-06861-7.
  32. Bown, Stephen R. 2002. The Naturalists: Scientific Travelers in the Golden Age of Natural History. New York: Barnes and Noble. ISBN: 0-7607-3764-9.
  33. Bramwell, Valerie, and Robert M. Peck. 2008. All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. ISBN: 978-0-910006-65-1.
  34. Bredekamp, Horst. 1995. The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine. Princeton: Marcus Wiener Publishers. ISBN: 1-55876-094-6.
  35. Briggs, Derek E.G., Douglas H. Erwin, and Frederick J. Collier. 1994. The Fossils of the Burgess Shale. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institutional Press. ISBN: 1-56098-659-x.
  36. Brockman, John, Editor. 2006. Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN: 0-307-27722-4.
  37. Browne, Janet. 1995. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-02606-8.
  38. Browne, Janet. 2002. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-11439-0.
  39. Bruinius, Harry. 2006. Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN: 0-375-41371-5.
  40. Bryson, Bill. 2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 0-7679-0818-x.
  41. Buckland, William. 1836. Bridgewater Treatise VI: Geology and Minerology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology: Volume I. London: William Pickering. (Reprint edition, 1980. New York: Arno Press) ISBN: 0-405-12707-3.
  42. Burnett, Nancy and Brad Matsen. 2002. The Shape of Life. Monterey: Monterey Bay Aquarium Press. ISBN: 1-878244-39-6.
  43. Burrell, Brian. 2004. Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 0-385-50128-5.
  44. Busbey, Arthur B. III, Robert R. Coenraads, Paul Willis, and David Roots. 1996. Rocks and Fossils. USA: Time-Life Books. ISBN: 0-7835-4803-6.
  45. Cadbury, Deborah. 2001. Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN: 0-8050-6772-8.
  46. Cahill, Thomas. 2006. Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN: 0-385-49555-2.
  47. Cairns-Smith, A.G. 1985. Seven Clues to the Origin of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-39828-2.
  48. Camerini, Jane R., Editor. 2002. The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 0-8018-6789-4.
  49. Capra, Fritjof. 2007. The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 978-0-385-51390-6.
  50. Chaplin, Joyce E. 2006. The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 0-465-00955-7.
  51. Chatters, James C. 2001. Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 0-684-85936-X.
  52. Churton, Tobias. 2006. The Magnus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole. Rochester: Inner Traditions. ISBN: 1-59477-122-7.
  53. Clark, Constance Areson. 2008. God — or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. ISBN: 0-8018-8825-5.
  54. Clayton, Julie, and Carina Dennis, Editors. 2003. 50 Years of DNA. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 1-4039-1479-6.
  55. Clegg, Brian. 2003. The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers. ISBN: 0-7867-1358-5.
  56. Colbert, Edwin H. 1995. The Little Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 0-231-08236-3.
  57. Comar, Philippe. 1993. Images of the Body. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, ISBN: 0-8109-2858-2.
  58. Conway Morris, Simon. 1998. The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-850256-7.
  59. Cook, Harold J. 2007. Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-11796-7.
  60. Cutler, Alan. 2003. The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth. New York: Dutton. ISBN: 0-525-94708-6.
  61. d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond, and Richard N. Schwab. 1995. Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-13476-8.
  62. Darwin, Charles. 1985. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: Penguin Classics. ISBN: 0-14-043205-1.
  63. Darwin, Charles, and Desmond King-Hele. 2003. The Life of Erasmus Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-81526-6.
  64. Darwin, Francis. 1929. Autobiography of Charles Darwin: With Two Appendices, Comprising a Chapter of Reminiscences and a Statement of Charles Darwin's Religious Views. London: Watts and Co. (Reprint edition, 2003. Cambridge: Icon Books) ISBN: 1-84046-503-4.
  65. Daston, Lorraine, and Katharine Park. 2001. Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books. ISBN: 0-942299-91-4.
  66. Dean, Dennis R. 1999. Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-42048-2.
  67. Dear, Peter. 2001. Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-08860-8.
  68. Dixon, Dougal, and Raymond L. Bernor, Editor. 1992. The Practical Geologist. New York: Simon and Schuster/Fireside, ISBN: 0-671-74697-9.
  69. Drayton, Richard. 2000. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 0-300-05976-0.
  70. Eamon, William. 1994. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-02602-5.
  71. Ellis, Richard. 1994. Monsters of the Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN: 0-679-40639-5.
  72. Ellis, Richard. 1999. The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN: 0-14-028676-4.
  73. Endersby, Jim. 2007. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0-674-02713-2.
  74. Everhart, Michael J. 2005. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 0-253-34547-2.
  75. Fara, Patricia. 2004. Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment. London: Pimlico. ISBN: 1-8441-3082-7.
  76. Feingold, Mordechai, Editor. 2003. Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ISBN: 0-262-06234-8.
  77. Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. 2004. Humankind: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-280575-4.
  78. Findlen, Paula. 1994. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-20508-1.
  79. Findlen, Paula, Editor. 2004. Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-94016-8.
  80. Finger, Stanley. 2006. Doctor Franklin's Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 0-8122-3913-X.
  81. Finlay, Victoria. 2002. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House Trade. ISBN: 0-8129-7142-6.
  82. Fleming, Candace. 2003. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life. New York: Ahteneum. ISBN: 0-689-83549-3.
  83. Fortey, Richard. 1999. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN: 0-375-70261-X.
  84. Fortey, Richard. 2000. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN: 0-375-40625-5.
  85. Fortey, Richard. 2008. Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum. London: Harper Press. ISBN: 978-0-00-720988-0.
  86. Franklin, Benjamin. 2001. The Autobiography and Other Writings. New York: Signet Classic. ISBN: 0-451-52810-7.
  87. Freedberg, David. 2002. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-26147-6.
  88. Fudge, Erica, Editor. 2004. Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 0-252-02880-5.
  89. Gallenkamp, Charles. 2001. Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions. New York: Viking. ISBN: 0-670-89093-6.
  90. Gamlin, Linda. 2000. Evolution. New York: Dorling-Kindersley. ISBN: 0-7894-5579-X.
  91. Garwin, Laura, and Tim Lincoln, Editors. 2003. A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-28415-8.
  92. Gayrard-Valy, Yvette. 1994. Fossils: Evidence of Vanished Worlds. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, ISBN: 0-8109-2824-8.
  93. Gesner, Konrad. 1971. Curious Woodcuts of Fanciful and Real Beasts. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0-486-22701-4.
  94. Gibbons, Ann. 2006. The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN: 978-1-4000-7696-3.
  95. Gibson, Graeme. 2005. The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. ISBN: 0-385-51483-2.
  96. Gillham, Nicholas Wright. 2001. A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-514365-5.
  97. Gingerich, Owen. 2004. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker and Company. ISBN: 0-8027-1415-3.
  98. Goldstone, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. 2005. The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 0-7679-1473-2.
  99. Godwin, Joscelyn. 1979. Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN: 0-500-81022-2. NOTE: A great book about an amazing man, but maybe a little pseudoscientific.
  100. Gopnik, Adam. 2009. Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN: 978-0-307-27078-8.
  101. Gorst, Martin. 2001. Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time. New York: Broadway Books. ISBN: 0-7679-0827-9.
  102. Gould, Charles. 1886. [Mythical Monsters] Dragons, Unicorns, and Sea Serpents: A Classic Study of the Evidence for their Existence. Devon: David and Charles. (Reprint edition, 2002. Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc.) ISBN: 0-486-42417-0.
  103. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1987. The Flamingo's Smile. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. ISBN: 0-393-30375-6.
  104. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1987. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0-674-89199-6.
  105. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN: 0-393-30700-X.
  106. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1996. The Mismeasure of Man: The Definitive Refutation to the Argument of the Bell Curve. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN: 0-393-03972-2.
  107. Gould, Stephen Jay. 2000. The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN: 0-609-80755-2.
  108. Gould, Stephen Jay. 2003. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN: 0-4000-4804-4.
  109. Gould, Stephen Jay, and Rosamond Wolff Purcell. 2000. Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN: 0-609-80586-X.
  110. Grant, Edward. 1996. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-56762-9.
  111. Gratzer, Walter, Editor. 1998. A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity in Science 1869-1953. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. ISBN: 0-7167-3139-8.
  112. Hadingham, Evan. 1979. Secrets of the Ice Age: A Reappraisal of Prehistoric Man. New York: Walker and Company. ISBN: 0-8027-7192-0.
  113. Haeckel, Ernst. 2005. Art Forms from the Ocean. Munich/New York: Prestel-Verlag. ISBN: 3-7913-3327-5.
  114. Haeckel, Ernst. 1998. Art Forms in Nature. Munich/New York: Prestel-Verlag. ISBN: 3-7913-1990-6
  115. Hankins, Thomas L., and and Robert J. Silverman. 1995. Instruments of the Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-00549-4.
  116. Harkness, Deborah E. 2007. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-11196-5.
  117. Hart-Davis, Duff. 2004. Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of Birds of America. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN: 0-8050-7568-2.
  118. Hathaway, Nancy. 2005. The Unicorn. Singapore: Tess Press. ISBN: 1-57912-525-5.
  119. Hazen, Robert M. 2005. Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin. Washington: Joseph Henry Press. ISBN: 0-309-09432-1.
  120. Helferich, Gerard. 2004. Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that Changed the Way We See the World. New York: Gotham Books. ISBN: 0-592-40052-3.
  121. Hellman, Hal. 1998. Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0-471-35066-4.
  122. Hendrix, Lee, and Thea Vignau-Wilberg. 1997. Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN: 0-89236-472-6.
  123. Henry, John. 2003. Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science. Cambridge: Icon Books. ISBN: 1-84046-473-9.
  124. Herbert, Sandra. 2005. Charles Darwin, Geologist. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 1-84046-473-9.
  125. Hooke, Robert. 1665. Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. London: Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society. (Reprint edition, 2003. Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc.) ISBN: 0-486-49564-7.
  126. Huxley, Robert, Editor. 2007. The Great Naturalists. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN: 978-0-500-25139-3.
  127. Huxley, Thomas H. 2001. Man's Place in Nature. New York: Modern Library. ISBN: 0-375-75847-X.
  128. Huxley, Thomas H. 2004. Evolution and Ethics, Science and Morals. Amherst: Prometheus Books. ISBN: 1-59102-126-X.
  129. Impelluso, Lucia, and Stephen Sartarelli. 2004. Nature and Its Symbols. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN: 0-89236-772-5.
  130. Inwood, Stephen. 2003. The Forgotten Genius: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635-1703. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage. ISBN: 1-931561-56-7.
  131. Jacobs, Louis. 1993. Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World. New York: Villard Books. ISBN: 0-679-41270-0.
  132. Jardine, Lisa. 1999. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday. ISBN: 0-385-49325-8.
  133. Jardine, Lisa. 2002. On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN: 0-06-019974-1.
  134. Jardine, Lisa. 2004. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN: 0-06-053897-X.
  135. Jardine, Lisa. 2008. Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN: 978-0-06-077408-0.
  136. Jardine, Lisa, and Alan Stewart. 1999. Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN: 0-8090-5540-6.
  137. Jardine, N., J.A. Secord, and E.C. Spary, Editors. 1996. Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press Syndicate. ISBN: 0521-558948.
  138. Johanson, Donald and James Shreeve. 1989. Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. New York: Avon Books. ISBN: 0-380-71234-2.
  139. Johnson, Kirk, and Ray Troll. 2007. Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-55591-451-6.
  140. Katz, David S. The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN: 0-224-06165-8.
  141. Kemp, Martin. 2000. Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-22352-7.
  142. Kemp, Martin. 2004. Leonardo. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-280546-0.
  143. Kemp, Martin. 2006. Seen|Unseen. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-929572-7.
  144. Keynes, Richard Darwin. 2003. Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-516649-3.
  145. Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia. 1969. Hunting for Dinosaurs. York, Pennsylvania: The Maple Press Company. SBN: 262-11030-X.
  146. King-Hele, Desmond. 1999. Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement. London: Giles de la Mare. ISBN: 1-900357-08-9.
  147. Kircher, Athanasius. 1987. China Illustrata. Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. ISBN: 0-933070-20-9.
  148. Klier, Melanie. 2003. Maria Sibylla Merian: New Book of Flowers. Munich/New York: Prestel-Verlag. ISBN: 3-7913-2975-8.
  149. Knight, Charles R. 2001. Life Through the Ages. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN: 0-253-33928-6.
  150. Knoll, Andrew H. 2003. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-00978-3.
  151. Kohl, Michael F., Larry D. Martin, and Paul Brinkman, Editors. 2004. A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown and J.P. Sams. Glendo: High Plains Press. ISBN: 0-931271-77-0.
  152. Kohl, Michael F., and John S. McIntosh, Editors. 1997. Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur Lakes. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN: 1-56098-700-6.
  153. Krishtalka, Leonard. 1989. Dinosaur Plots. New York: Avon Books. ISBN: 0-380-70998-8.
  154. Lane, Nick. 2002. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-860783-0.
  155. Larson, Edward J. 2001. Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 0-465-03810-7.
  156. Larson, Edward J. 2004. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. New York: Modern Library. ISBN: 0-679-64288-9.
  157. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, and Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield, Translator and Editor. 2008. Protogaea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0-226-11296-1.
  158. Lewin, Roger. 1997. Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-47651-0.
  159. Lewis, Cherry. 2000. The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-79051-4.
  160. Lindberg, David C. 1992. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-48231-6.
  161. Livingstone, David N. 2003. Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-48722-9.
  162. Lovejoy, Arthur O. 2001. The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0-674-36153-9.
  163. Maddox, Brenda. 2002. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN: 0-06-018407-8.
  164. Magee, Judith. 2007. The Art and Science of William Bartram. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN: 987-0271-02914-6.
  165. Marantz Henig, Robin. 2000. The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN: 0-395-97765-7.
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  77. Who's Afraid of Darwin? (http://www.wiretapmag.org/education/33038/)
  78. Wikipedia: Dover Trial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District)
  79. "Zombie Worms" Found off Sweden (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4354286.stm)

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. A special thanks to all of the following:
  3. Somerville Anderson of the Institute for Evolutionary Studies for generous support
  4. Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education for always-helpful information
  5. Lyle Bush for lots of good advice
  6. Durant Carpenter for helping me scan documents and save money, and to whom I will no longer be civil since I swallowed my pride and said thank you
  7. James Hayward of Andrews University for his article and excellent references for more information
  8. Carl Lindstrand for his suggestion of and information on the skvader
  9. Don McCuan for keeping tabs on Natural History gems
  10. Bryan Small of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for his review of the timeline and helpful suggestions
  11. Lou Taylor for his helpful biographical recommendations
  12. Fr. Tom Winder of the U.S. Jesuit Conference for tracking down leads on Athanasius Kircher
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