Dictionaries and
Encyclopedias

• Breakthroughs: Chronologies of Great Achievements in Science and Mathematics, 1200 - 1930
  C. Parkinson. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985
  SCI REF Q125 .P3271 1985
  
• Companion to the History of Modern Science
  R.C. Olby et al. NY: Routledge, 1990
  SCI REF Q125 .C5651 1990
  
• Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of Science
  P. T. Durbin. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
  SCI REF Q174.7 .D871 1988
  
• Dictionary of the History of Science
  W. F. Bynum et al. Princeton" Princeton U. Press, 1981
  SCI REF Q125 .D45 1981
  
•  Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology
   I. McNeil. London and New York, 1990
   SCI REF T15 .E57 1990
  
• Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science (3 volumes)
  R. Rushid. London: Routledge, 1996
  SCI REF Q127. A5 .E53 1996
  
• Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton
  W. Applebaum, ed. NY: Garland Pub., 2000
  SCI REF Q125 .E53 2000
  
• Milestones in Science and Technology: the ready reference guide 
  to discoveries, inventions and facts, 2nd ed.
  E. Mount and B. List. Phoenix, 1994
  SCI REF Q199 .M681 1994

• Look on the library's page of Biographical Databases. Also,
  
• American Men & Women of Science.
  Physical and Biological Sciences.
  SCI REF Q141 .A52
  
• American Men & Women of Science. The
  Medical Sciences.
  SCI REF R153 .A6
  
• Biographical Sources in the Sciences -- This Library of Congress site lists books, bibliographies, web sites, and other resources. It's part of LoC's "Tracer Bullet" series on finding particular kinds of information.
  
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  SCI REF Q141 .D5 1970 Quarto
  
• Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (1932-1954)
  [continued by]
  
• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1955-2003)

• Breakthroughs: A Chronology of Great Achievements in Science and Mathematics, 1200-1930
  C. L. Parkinson. Boston, 1985
  SCI REF Q125 .P3271 1985
  
• Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900
  R. M. Gascoigne. New York, 1987
  SCI REF Q125 .G391 1987

• Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century: a Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography.
  M. B. Ogilvie. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986
  SCI REF Q141 .O341 1986
  
• Women Scientists from Antiquity to Present: an Index: an International Reference Listing and Biographical Directory of Some Notable Women Scientists from Ancient to Modern Times
  C. L. Herzenberg. West Cornwall, CT, 1986
  SCI REF Q141 .H4751 1986

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