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J. P. Richter: The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci. 2 vols. 1883.

Les Manuscrits de Leonard de Vinci de la bibliotheque de l'Institut. Publies en facsimile avec transcription litterale, traduction francaise . . . par Ch. Ravaisson-Molien. 6 vols. 1881-91.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks; arranged and rendered into English by E. McCurdy. 1906.

Leonardo de Vinci: Notes et Dessins sur la Generation. 1901.

Leonard de Vinci: Feuillets inedits conserves a Windsor. 22 vols. 1901 ff.

Institute di Studi Vinciani:--Per il IVo centenario della morte di Leonardo da Vinci. 1919.

A. C. Klebs: Leonardo da Vinci and his anatomical studies. 1916.

Hieronymi Cardani: Opera Omnia. 1663. 10 vols.

W. W. R Ball: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. 1901.

M. Cantor: Vorlesungen ueber Geschichte der Mathematik. Vol. 2 (1200-1668). 1900.

H. G. Zeuthen: Geschichte der Mathematik in 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. 1903.

Articles, "Algebra" and "Mathematics" in Encyclopedia Britannica.

Maximilien Marie: Histoire des sciences mathematiques et physiques, vols. 2 and 3. 1883-4.

F. Cajori: History of Mathematics. 1919.

David E. Smith: Rara arithmetica. A catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI, with a description of those in the library of G. A. Plimpton. 1908.

F. Dannemann: Grundriss einer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften.. 2 vols. 1902.

W. A. Locy: Biology and its makers. 1915.

W. A. Locy: The Main Currents of Zooelogy. 1918.

E. L. Greene: Landmarks of Botanical History. Part 1. 1909. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 54).

J. V. Carus: Geschichte der Zooelogie bis auf Joh. Mueller und Ch. Darwin. 1872.

F. Cajori: A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches. 1899.

Conradi Gesneri: Historiae Animalium, libb. iii, 3 vols. 1551-8.

Wm. Gilbert . . . on the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies . . . a translation by P. F. Mottelay. 1893.

E. Gerland: Geschichte der Physik von den aeltesten Zeiten bis zum Ausgange des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. 1913. (Work of high philosophical and scientific value).

J. C. Brown: A History of Chemistry from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day. 1913.

F. J. Moore: A History of Chemistry. 1918.

T. E. Thorpe: A History of Chemistry. 2 vols. 1909-10.

Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera Johannis de Sacro Bosco, collectae ab Ariele Bicardo. Wittenberg, 1550. (Library of Mr. G. A. Plimpton, New York).

S. Guenther: Geschichte der Erdkunde. 1904.

Articles, "Geography" and "Map" in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

L. Gallois: Les geographes allemands de la Renaissance, 1890.

N. Copernici De Revolutionibus orbium caelestium libri vi. (First edition 1543; I use the edition of Basle, 1566).

L. Prowe: Nikolaus Coppernicus. 3 vols. 1883-4. (Standard).

Wohlwill: "Melanchthon und Kopernicus," in Mitteilungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, iii, 260, 1904.

Luther on Copernicus, Bindseil: Lutheri Colloquia, 3 vols. 1863-66, vol. ii, p. 149. (This is the best text; the stronger form of the same saying, in which Luther called Copernicus a fool, seems to have been retouched by Aurifaber).

A. D. White: The Warfare of Science and Theology, 2 vols. 1896. Vol. i, pp. 114 ff.

A. Mueller: Nikolaus Copernicus. 1898.

Dorothy Stimson: The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe. 1917. (Excellent).

W. W. Bryant: History of Astronomy. 1907.

Article, "Navigation," in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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