BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF
Derek John deSolla Price
Avalon Professor of the History of Science, Yale University

Prepared by Ann Leskowitz of History of Science, Yale University, P.O. Box 2036,
Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.



 

1. BOOKS -
An Old Palmistry. An edition of the Middle English treatise contained in MS.
Digby Roll 3. Cambridge, Heffer, 1953.

The Equatorie of the Planetis. With a linguistic analysis by R. M. Wilson. A
manuscript treatise ascribed to Chaucer. Cambridge at the University Press,
1955.

The Collector’s Series in Science. A series of facsimile editions of historical
scientific books, edited, with the addition of prefatorial material. New
York: Basic Books, Inc.
Volume I. Natural Magick, Giambattista della Porta, 1957.
Volume 11.On the Magnet, William Gilbert, 1958.
Volume 111.1 Pirotechnia, Biringuccio, 1959.

Heavenly Clockwork. The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China: A
Missing Link in Horological History. In collaboration with Joseph Needham
and Wang Ling. Monograph N. 1, Antiquarian Horological Society. Cam-
bridge at the University Press, 1960.

Science Since Babylon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. Paperbound
1962. Enlarged edition 1975. Third printing 1978. Translated into Ara-
bic, Polish and Urdu.

Little Science, Big Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. Paper-
bound 1965. Translated into Russian, Italian, Polish, Japanese, German,
Romanian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Hungarian.
History of Science Series for Young Readers, edited by Derek deSolla Price.
Englewood Clif€s, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

KELMAN, PETER and STONE, A. HARRIS. Ernest Rutherford, Architect of the Atom, 1969.
KUSLAN, LOUIS and STONE, A. HARRIS, Liebig, The Master Chemist,1969.
KELMAN, PETER and STONE, A. HARRIS, Mendeleyeu: Prophet of Chemical Elements, 1970.
KUSLAN, LOUIS and STONE, A. HARRIS, Robert Boyle, The Great Experimenter, 1970.

Gears From the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism - A Calendar Computer
from ca. 80 B.C., New York: Science History Publications, 1975.

Science, Technohgy and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspectiue. Edited by IM
Spiegel-Rosing and Derek deSolIa Price, under the aegis of the Interna-
tional Council for Science Policy Studies. London and Beverly HilIs: Sage
Publications, 1977.


2. LIST OF PAPERS