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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

  1. General
  2. Mathematics
  3. Astronomy
  4. Physics
  5. Chemistry
  6. Earth sciences
  7. Biology
  8. Physiology and medicine
  9. Environmental studies
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: General

Sources in English:

  1. Denny, Joseph H., and Paul M. Mitchell. "Russian Translations of the Encyclopédie," in Frank A. Kafker, ed., Notable Encyclopedias of the Late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1994).
  2. Graham, Loren R. Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  3. Griffith, D. "The Early Years of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences as Reflected in Recent Soviet Literature," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 14 (1980): 436-45.
  4. Lipski, Alexander. "The Foundation of the Russian Academy of Science," Isis 44 (1953): 349-54.
  5. Ryan, W.F. "Scientific Instruments in Russia from the Middle Ages to Peter the Great," Annals of Science 48 (1991): 367-84.
  6. Schulze, Ludmilla. "The Russification of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Eighteenth Century," British Journal of the History of Science 18 (1985): 305-35.
  7. Sevcenko, Ihor. "Remarks on the Diffusion of Byzantine Scientific and Pseudo-Scientific Literature among the Orthodox Slavs," Slavonic and East European Review 59 (July 1981): 321-42.
  8. Vucinich, Alexander. Science in Russian Culture, 2 vols. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963-1970).
  9. Werrett, Simon. "An Odd Sort of Exhibition: the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Enlightened Russia." Ph.D. dissertation, March 2000, Cambridge University.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Istoriia Akademii Nauk SSSR, 2 vols. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1958-1964).
  2. Istoriia estestvoznaniia v Rossii, 3 vols. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1957-1961).
  3. Karpeev, E.P., ed. Nauka i kul'tura Rossii XVIII veka (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  4. Kniazev, G.A. Kratkii ocherk istorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 3rd ed. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).
  5. Komkov, G.D., et al. Akademiia Nauk SSSR: Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk, 2 vols. (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  6. Kopelevich, Iu.Kh. Osnovanie Peterburgskoi akademii nauk, (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977).
  7. Kuzakov, V.K. Ocherki razvitiia estestvennonauchnykh i tekhnicheskikh predstavlenii na Rusi v X-XVII vv. (Moscow: Nauka, 1976).
  8. Lazarev, P.P. Ocherki russkoi nauki (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1950).
  9. Materialy dlia istorii imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 2 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1885).
  10. Mikulinskii, S.R., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Razvitie estestvoznaniia v Rossii: XVIII-nachalo XX veka (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  11. Pekarskii, P.P. Istoriia imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v Peterburge, 2 vols. (1870-1873).
  12. Rainov, T. Nauka v Rossii XI-XVII vekov: Ocherki po istorii donauchnykh i estestvenno-nauchnykh vozzrenii na prirodu (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1940).
  13. Riazanovskii, V.A. Razvitie russkoi nauchnoi mysli v XVIII-XX vv.: Nauki o prirode (New York, 1949).
  14. Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk: 275 let sluzheniia Rossii (Moscow: Ianus-K, 1999).
  15. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye predstavlennia Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  16. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye predstavlennia Drevnei Rusi: Schiclenie let, simvolika chisel, "otrechennye" knigi, astrologiia, mineralogiia (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  17. Simonov, R.A., ed. Estestvennonauchnye znaniia v Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
  18. Vernadskii, V.I. Trudy po istorii nauki v Rossii (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Mathematics

Sources in English:

  1. Daniels, Norman. "Lobachevsky: Some Anticipations of Later Views on the Relations between Geometry and Physics," Isis 65 (1975): 75-85.
  2. Demidov, S.S. "From the Early History of the Moscow School of Function Theory," Philosophia Mathematica 3 (1988): 29-35.
  3. Ford, Charles E. "Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow," The Mathematical Intelligencer 13 (1991): 24-30.
  4. Graham, Loren, and Jean-Michel Kantor. Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
  5. Kagan, N. Lobachevsky and His Contribution to Science (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1957).
  6. Koblitz, Ann H. A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Boston: Birkhauser, 1983).
  7. Kochina, P.Ia. Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya (Moscow: Mir, 1985).
  8. Kosmodemyansky, A.A. Nikolai Zhukovsky (Moscow: Mir, 1987).
  9. Rosenfeld, Boris. A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry (Springer, 1988).
  10. Sheynin, Oscar. "Chebyshev's Lectures on the Theory of Probability," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 46:4 (1994): 321-40.
  11. Sheynin, Oscar. "Mendeleev and the Mathematical Treatment of Observations in Natural Science," Historia Mathematica 23:1 (1996).
  12. Sheynin, Oscar. "On V. Ya. Buniakovsky's Work in the Theory of Probability," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 43:3 (1991): 199-224.
  13. Vucinich, Alexander. "Mathematics in Russian Culture," Journal of the History of Ideas 21 (1960): 161-79.
  14. Vucinich, Alexander. "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: The Man Behind the First Non-Euclidean Geometry," Isis 53 (1962): 465-81.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Andronov, A.A. I.A. Vyshnegradskii i ego rol' v sozdanii teorii avtomaticheskogo regulirovaniia (Moscow and Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1949).
  2. Bazhanov, V.A. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vasil'ev, 1880-1940. (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  3. Borodin, A.I., and A.S. Bugai. Vydaiushchiesia matematiki: Biograficheskii slovar'-spravochnik, 2nd ed. (Kiev: Radians'ka shkola, 1987).
  4. Denisov, A.P. Leontii Filippovich Magnitskii (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1967).
  5. Florenskij, P.A. Mnimosti v geometrii (in German). Nachdruck nebst einer einfuhrenden Studie von Michael Hagemeister (Munchen: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1985).
  6. Galanin, D.D. L.F. Magnitskii i ego "Arifmetika", 3 vols. (Moscow, 1914).
  7. Gnedenko, B.V., and I.B. Pogrebysskii. Mikhail Vasil'evich Ostrogradskii: Zhizn' i rabota. Nauchnoe i pedagogicheskoe nasledie (Moscow: Nauka, 1963).
  8. Gudhov, D.A. N.I. Lobachevskii: Zagadki biografii (Nizhnii Novgorod: Izdatel'stvo Nizhegorodskogo universiteta, 1992).
  9. Grodzenskii, S.Ia. Andrei Andreevich Markov (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  10. Ignatsius, G.I. Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  11. Istoriko-matematicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Gostekhiz/Nauka, 1948--).
  12. Iushkevich, A.P. Istoriia matematiki v Rossii do 1917 goda (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).
  13. Khanovich, I.G. Akademik Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1967).
  14. Kolmogorov, A.N., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Matematika XIX veka: Chebyshevskoe napravlenie v teorii funktsii. Obyknovennye differentsial'nye uravneniia. Variatsionnoe ischislenie. Teoriia konechnykh raznostei (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  15. Kolmogorov, A.N., and A.P. Iushkevich, eds. Matematika XIX veka: Geometriia. Teoriia analiticheskikh funktsii (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  16. Krylov, A.N. Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1944).
  17. Lysenko, V.I. Nikolai Ivanovich Fuss (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
  18. Ozhigova, E.P. Matematika v Peterburgskoi Akademii nauk v kontse XVIII-pervoi polovine XIX veka (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).
  19. Ozhigova, E.P. Razvitie teorii chisel v Rossii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1972).
  20. Prudnikov, V.E. Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev (Leningrad: Nauka, 1976).
  21. Putiata, T.V., et al. Aleksandr Petrovich Kotel'nikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1968).
  22. Shtokalo, I.Z., ed. Istoriia otechestvennoi matematiki, vol. 1: S drevneishikh vremen do kontsa XVIII v.; vol. 2: 1801-1917 (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1966-1970).
  23. Simonov, R.A. Matematicheskaia mysl' Drevnei Rusi (Moscow: Nauka, 1977).
  24. Vasil'ev, A.V. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii, 1792-1856 (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Astronomy

Sources in English:

  1. Batten, Alan H. Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1988).
  2. Dvoichenko-Markov, Eufrosina. "The Pulkovo Observatory and Some American Astronomers of the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Isis, 43 (1952): 243-46.
  3. Struve, Otto. "The Pulkovo Observatory, 1839-1941," Sky and Telescope 1(4) (1941): 3-14, 19.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Ambartsumian, V.A. Ocherki istorii otechestvennoi astronomii s drevneishikh vremen do nachala XX v. (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1992).
  2. Blazhko, S.N. "Istoriia Moskovskoi astronomicheskoi observatorii v sviazi s istoriei prepodavaniia astronomii v universitete, 1824-1920," Uchenye zapiski Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 58 (1940): 5-106.
  3. Chenakal, V.L. Ocherki po istorii russkoi astronomii: Nabliudatel'naia astronomiia v Rossii XVII i nachala XVIII v. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1951).
  4. Fesenkov, V.G. "Ocherk istorii astronomii v Rossii v XVII i XVIII stoletiiakh," Trudy Instituta istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki II (1948): 3-25.
  5. Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Fizmatizdat/Nauka, 1955--).
  6. Kulikovskii, P.G. M.V. Lomonosov--astronom i astrofizik, 3rd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  7. Kulikovskii, P.G. Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  8. Lavrinovich, K.K. "Istoki Pulkovskogo fenomena," Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia 23 (1991): 64-89.
  9. Loginova, G.P., and V.G. Selikhanovich. Aleksei Nikolaevich Savich (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  10. Lutskii, V.K. Istoriia astronomicheskikh obshchestvennykh organizatsii v SSSR, 1888-1941 (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  11. Nevskaia, N.I. Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (Moscow and Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).
  12. Nevskaia, N.I. Nikita Ivanovich Popov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977).
  13. Nevskaia, N.I. Peterburgskaia astronomicheskaia shkola XVIII v. (Moscow: Nauka, 1984).
  14. Novokshanova (Sokolovskaia), Z.K. Vasilii Iakovlevich Struve (Moscow: Nauka, 1964).
  15. Pavlova, G.E. Stepan Iakovlevich Rumovskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1979).
  16. Perel', Iu.G. Vydaiushchiesia russkie astronomy (Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1951).
  17. Slastenov, A.I. Astronomiia v Khar'kovskom universitete za 150 let, 1805-1955 (Khar'kov: Izd-vo Khar'kovskogo universiteta, 1955).
  18. Sto piat'desiat let Pulkovskoi observatorii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1989).
  19. Vorontsov-Vel'iaminov, B.A. Ocherki istorii astronomii v Rossii (Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1956).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Physics

Sources in English:

  1. Boss, Valentin. Newton and Russia: The Early Influence, 1698-1796 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972).
  2. Home, R.W. "Science as Career in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Case of F.U.T. Aepinus," Slavonic and East European Review 51 (1973): 75-94.
  3. Pechenkin A.A. "The Importance of the Strasbourg Period in L.I. Mandelstam's Life for His Further Work in Science." NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine 7 (1999): 93-104.
  4. Vizgin, V.P., and G.E. Gorelik. "The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR," in Thomas Glick, ed., The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987), pp. 265-326.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Grigorian, A.T. Evoliutsiia mekhaniki v Rossii (Moscow, 1967).
  2. Grigorian, A.T., and I.B. Pogrebysskii, eds. Istoriia mekhaniki, 2 vols. (Moscow: 1971-1972).
  3. Grigorian, A.T. Ocherki istorii mekhaniki v Rossii (Moscow, 1961).
  4. Grigorian, A.T. Mekhanika v Rossii (Moscow, 1978).
  5. Gulo, D.D. Nikolai Alekseevich Umov (Moscow: Nauka, 1971).
  6. Issledovaniia po istorii fiziki i mekhaniki (Moscow: Nauka, 1985--).
  7. Khramov, Iu.A. Fiziki: Biograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  8. Lazarev, P.P. P.N. Lebedev i russkaia fizika (Moscow, 1912).
  9. Razvitie fiziki v Rossii, 2 vols. (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1970).
  10. Serdiukov, A.R. Petr Nikolaevich Lebedev (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  11. Sominskii, M.S. Aleksandr Grigorevich Stoletov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1970).
  12. Tepliakov, G.M., and P.S. Kudriavtsev. Aleksandr Grigorevich Stoletov (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1966).
  13. Timiriazev, A.K. Ocherki po istorii fiziki v Rossii (Moscow: Uchpedgiz, 1949).
  14. Tsverava, G.K. Georg Vil'gel'm Rikhman, 1711-1753 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1977).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Chemistry

Sources in English:

  1. Almgren, Beverly. "Mendeleev: The Third Service, 1834-1882." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1968.
  2. Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. "Mendeleev's Periodic System of Chemical Elements," British Journal for the History of Science 19 (1986): 3-17.
  3. Brooks, Nathan M. "Alexander Butlerov and the Professionalization of Science in Russia," The Russian Review 57 (January 1998): 10-24.
  4. Brooks, Nathan M. "The Formation of a Community of Chemists in Russia, 1700-1870." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1988.
  5. Figurovskii, N.I., and Iu.I. Solov'ev. Aleksandr Porfir'evich Borodin: A Chemist's Biography (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1988).
  6. Ipatieff, V.N. Life of a Chemist (Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1946).
  7. Leicester, Henry M., ed. Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov and the Corpuscular Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970).
  8. Menshutkin, B.N. Russia's Lomonosov: Chemist, Courtier, Physicist, Poet (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952).
  9. Pavlova, G.E., and A.S. Fedorov. Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov: His Life and Work (Moscow: Mir, 1984).
  10. Rocke, Alan J. "Kekule, Butlerov, and the Historiography of the Theory of Chemical Structure," The British Journal for the History of Science 14 (1981): 27-55.
  11. Sarton, George. "Borodin, 1833-1887," Osiris 7 (1939): 224-51.
  12. Turkevich, John. Chemistry in the Soviet Union (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965).
  13. Vinogradov, S.N. "Chemistry at Kazan University in the Nineteenth Century: A Case History of Intellectual Lineage," Isis 56 (1965): 168-73.
  14. Vucinich, Alexander. "Mendeleev's Views on Science and Society," Isis 58 (1967): 342-51.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Arbuzov, A.E. Kratkii ocherk razvitiia organicheskoi khimii v Rossii (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1948).
  2. Beliaev, A.I. Nikolai Nikolaevich Beketov, vydaiushchiisia russkii fiziko-khimik i metallurg, 1827-1911 (Moscow: Gosizdat, 1953).
  3. Bykov, G.V. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (Moscow: Nauka, 1961).
  4. Dobrotin, R.B., et al. Letopis' zhizni i deiatel'nosti D.I. Mendeleeva (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).
  5. Figurovskii, N.I. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, 1834-1907 (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1961).
  6. Figurovskii, N.I., and Iu.I. Solov'ev. Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1957).
  7. Kedrov, B.M. Den' odnogo velikogo otkrytiia (Moscow: Sotsegiz, 1958).
  8. Kipnis, A.Ia. Razvitie khimicheskoi termodinamiki v Rossii (Moscow/Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).
  9. Luk'ianov, P.M. Istoriia khimicheskikh promyslov i khimicheskoi promyshlennosti Rossii do kontsa XIX veka, 6 vols. (Moscow: Nauka, 1948-1965).
  10. Musabekov, Iu.S. Istoriia organicheskogo sinteza v Rossii (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1958).
  11. Musabekov, Iu.S. Iuliia Vsevolodovna Lermontova (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  12. Plate, A.F., et al. Vladimir Vasil'evich Markovnikov: Ocherk zhizni i deiatel'nosti (Moscow: Nauka, 1962).
  13. Raskin, N.M. Khimicheskaia laboratoriia M.V. Lomonosova: Khimiia v Peterburgskoi akademii nauk vo vtoroi polovine XVIII v. (Moscow/Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1962).
  14. Sheptunova, Zinaida I. Istoriograficheskii analiz rabot po istorii khimii v Rossii: XVIII-nachalo XX v. (Moscow: Nauka, 1995).
  15. Solov'ev, Iu.I. German Ivanovich Gess (Moscow: Nauka, 1962).
  16. Solov'ev, Iu.I. Istoriia khimii v Rossii: Nauchnye tsentry i osnovnye napravleniia issledovanii (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).
  17. Starosel'skii, P.I., and Iu.I. Solov'ev. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (Moscow: Nauka, 1969).
  18. Trifonov, D.N. "Versiia-2 (K istorii otkrytiia periodicheskogo zakona D.I. Mendeleevym," VIET, nos. 2 (1990): 25-36; 3 (1990): 20-32.
  19. Turchenko, Ia.I. Nikolai Nikolaevich Beketov (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1954).
  20. Volkov, V.A. Vydaiushchiesia khimiki mira: Biograficheskii spravochnik (Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1991).
  21. Zaitseva, L.L., and N.A. Figurovskii. Issledovanie iavlenii radioaktivnosti v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1961).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Earth Sciences

Sources in English:

  1. Bailes, Kendall. Science and Russian Culture in an Age of Revolution: Vernadsky and His Scientific School, 1863-1945 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1989).
  2. Lincoln, Bruce. Petr Semenov Tian-Shanskii: The Life of a Russian Geographer (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1980).
  3. Postnikov, A.V. Field Cartography in Russia: Tradition and Scientific and Technical Schools (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Aleksandrovskaia, O.A. Stanovlenie geograficheskoi nauki v Rossii v XVIII veke (Moscow: Nauka, 1989).
  2. Belov, M.I., ed. Pervaia russkaia antarkticheskaia ekspeditsiia, 1819-1821 (Leningrad: Morskoi transport, 1963).
  3. Berg, L.S. Ocherki po istorii russkikh geograficheskikh otkrytii (Moscow-Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1946).
  4. Cherniavskii, V.I. P.P. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii i ego trudy po geografii (Moscow, 1955).
  5. Dik, N.E. Lomonosovskii period v razvitii russkoi geografii (Moscow: Mysl', 1976).
  6. Esakov, V.A. Geografiia v Moskovskom universitete: Ocherki organizatsii prepodavaniia, razvitiia geograficheskoi mysli (do 1917 g.) (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  7. Esakov, V.A. Geografiia v Rossii v XIX-nachale XX veka: Otkrytiia i issledovaniia zemnoi poverkhnosti i razvitie fizicheskoi geografii (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  8. Esakov, V.A. Teoreticheskie problemy fizicheskoi geografii v Rossii, XIX-nach. XX vv. (Moscow: Nauka, 1987).
  9. Gnucheva, V. Geograficheskii departament Akademii nauk XVIII veka (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1946).
  10. Grigor'ev, D.P., and I.I. Shafranovskii. Vydaiushchiesia russkie mineralogi (Moscow-Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1949).
  11. Ianshin, A.L., ed. Nauchnoe i sotsial'noe znachenie deiatel'nosti V. I. Vernadskogo (Leningrad; Nauka, 1989).
  12. Karataev, N.M. Nikolai Mikhailovich Przheval'skii (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1948).
  13. Kir'ianov, G.F. Vasilii Vasil'evich Dokuchaev (Moscow: Nauka, 1966).
  14. Kozlov, P.K. Velikii russkii puteshestvennik N. M. Przheval'skii (Leningrad, 1929).
  15. Kuzin, A.A. Istoriia otkrytiia rudnykh mestorozhdenii v Rossii do serediny XIX v. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1961).
  16. Kuznetsov, I.V., ed. Liudi russkoi nauki: ocherki o vydaiushchikhsia deiateliakh estestvoznaniia i tekhniki: Geologiia, geografiia (Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1962).
  17. Lebedev, D.M. Ocherki po istorii geografii v Rossii XV i XVI vekov (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1956).
  18. Markin, V.A. Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (Moscow: Nauka, 1985).
  19. Mochalov, I.I. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  20. Novokshanova-Sokolovskaia, Z.K. Kartograficheskie i geodezicheskie raboty v Rossii v XIX-nachale XX v. (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  21. Papkovskii, P.P. Iz istorii geodezii, topografii i kartografii v Rossii (Moscow: Nauka, 1983).
  22. Pasetskii, V.M. Russkie otkrytiia i issledovaniia v Arktike: pervaia polovina XIX veka (Leningrad: Gosgidromet, 1984).
  23. Pasetskii, V.M. Vitus Bering, 1681-1741 (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).
  24. Potapov, Iu.P. Stepan Osipovich Makarov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1982).
  25. Raskin, N.M., and I.I. Shafranovskii. Fedor Petrovich Moiseenko: mineralog XVIII veka (Leningrad: Nauka, 1974).
  26. Romanovskii, S.I. Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  27. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii, P.P. Istoriia poluvekovoi deiatel'nosti imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva, 1845-1895, 3 vols. (St. Petersburg: Tip. Bezobrazova, 1896).
  28. Shafranovskii, I.I. Istoriia kristallografii v Rossii (Moscow/Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1962).
  29. Shafranovskii, I.I. Istoriia kristallografii: XIX vek (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980).
  30. Shafranovskii, I.I. Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (Moscow/Leningrad: Nauka, 1963).
  31. Shafranovskii, I.I. Nikolai Ivanovich Koksharov (Moscow/Leningrad: Nauka, 1964).
  32. Sokolov, B.S., and A.L. Ianshin, eds. V.I. Vernadskii i sovremennost' (Moscow: Nauka, 1986).
  33. Sukhova, N.G. Karl Ritter i geograficheskaia nauka v Rossii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1990).
  34. Vladimir Vernadskii: Zhizneopisanie, izbrannye trudy, vospominaniia sovremennikov, suzhdeniia potomkov (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1993).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Biology

Sources in English:

  1. Adams, Mark B., ed. The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky: Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994).
  2. Adams, Mark B. "Eugenics in Russia, 1900-1940," in Mark B. Adams. Ed., The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 153-216.
  3. Gaisinovich, A.E. "Contradictory appraisal by K.A. Timiriazev of Mendelian principles and its subsequent perception," Pubblicazioni della Stazione zoologica di Napoli. II, History and philosophy of the life sciences 7:2 (1985).
  4. Kline, George L. "Darwinism and the Russian Orthodox Church," in Ernest J. Simmons, ed., Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought (New York: Russell & Russell, 1967), pp. 307-28.
  5. Landau-Tylkina, S.P. Kliment Timiriazev (Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1988).
  6. Rogers, James A. "Reception of Darwin's Origin of Species by Russian Scientists," Isis 64 (1973): 484-503.
  7. Todes, Daniel. Darwin Without Malthus: The "Struggle for Existence" and Russian Evolutionary Thought in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
  8. Todes, Daniel. "V.O. Kovalevskii: The Genesis, Content, and Reception of His Paleontological Work," Studies in the History of Biology 2 (1978): 99-165.
  9. Vucinich, Alexander. Darwin in Russian Thought (Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989).
  10. Weiner, Douglas. "The Roots of 'Michurinism': Transformist Biology and Acclimatization as Currents in the Russian Life Sciences," Annals of Science 42 (1985): 243-60.

Sources in Russian:

  1. Artemov N.M., and T.E. Kalinina. Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1994).
  2. Astaurov, B.L., and P.F. Rokitskii. Nikolai Konstantinovich Kol'tsov (Moscow: Nauka, 1975).
  3. Bliakher, L.I. Istoriia embriologii v Rossii s serediny XVIII do serediny XIX veka (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1957).
  4. Bliakher, L.I. Istoriia embriologii v Rossii s serediny XIX do serediny XX veka (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1959).
  5. Dubinin, N.P. Teoreticheskie osnovy i metody raboty I.V. Michurina (Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1966).
  6. Gaisinovich, A.E. Karl Ber i kontseptsii preformatsii i epigeneza v embriologii (Tallin: Valgus, 1978).
  7. Gaisinovich, A.E. Zarozhdenie i razvitie genetiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).
  8. Grigorian, N.A. Nikolai Osipovich Kovalevskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  9. Kuznetsov, I.V., ed. Liudi russkoi nauki: ocherki o vydaiushchikhsia deiateliakh estestvoznaniia i tekhniki: Biologiia, meditsina, selskokhoziaistvennye nauki (Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1963).
  10. Manoilenko, K.V. A.F. Batalin--vydaiushchiisia russkii botanik XIX veka (Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1962).
  11. Manoilenko, K.V. Evoliutsionnye aspekty problemy zasukhoustoichivosti rastenii: istoricheskii analiz issledovanii otechestvennykh uchenykh (Leningrad: Nauka, 1983).
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  13. Manoilenko, K.V. Razvitie evoliutsionnogo napravleniia v fiziologii rastenii: istoricheskie ocherki (Leningrad: Nauka, 1974).
  14. Manoilenko, K.V. Vladislav Adolfovich Rotert, 1863-1916 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1978).
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  19. Raikov, B.E. Russkie biologi-evoliutsionisty do Darvina, 4 vols. (Moscow/Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1951-1959).
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  23. Serkov, F.N., ed. Biologi: Biograficheskii spravochnik (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1984).
  24. Vasil'chenko, I.T. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (Moscow and Leningrad: Nauka, 1963).
  25. Vorontsov, N.N., ed. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrovskii (Moscow: Nauka, 1993).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Physiology and Medicine

Sources in English:

  1. Alexander, John T. Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health Urban Disaster (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
  2. Babkin, B.P. Pavlov: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
  3. Brown, Julie V. "Professionalization and Radicalization: Russian Psychiatrists Respond to 1905," in Harley D. Balzer, ed., Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 143-68.
  4. Cury, Hilaire. Ivan Pavlov: The Man and His Theories (New York, P.S. Eriksson, 1965).
  5. Frieden, Nancy M. Russian Physicians in an Era of Reform and Revolution, 1856-1905 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
  6. Gray, Jeffrey Alan. Ivan Pavlov (New York: Viking Press, 1980).
  7. Hutchinson, John F. "Politics and Medical Professionalization After 1905," in Harley D. Balzer, ed., Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 89-116.
  8. Hutchinson, John F. Politics and Public Health in Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1918 (Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
  9. Joravsky, David. Russian Psychology: A Critical History (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989).
  10. Koshtoiants, Kh.S. Essays on the History of Physiology in Russia (Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1964).
  11. McGrew, Roderick. Russia and the Cholera, 1823-1832 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965).
  12. Mertens, Charles de. An Account of the Plague That Raged at Moscow, 1771 (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1977).
  13. Ramer, Samuel C. "Professionalism and Politics: The Russian Feldsher Movement, 1891-1918," in Harley D. Balzer, ed., Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 118-42..
  14. Solomon, Susan G., and John F. Hutchinson, eds. Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990).
  15. Todes, Daniel. "Biological Psychology and the Tsarist Censor: The Dilemma of Scientific Development," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 58 (1984): 529-44.
  16. Todes, Daniel. "V. O. Kovalevskii: The Genesis, Content, and Reception of His Paleontological Work," Studies in History of Biology 2 (1978): 99-165.
  17. Todes, Daniel. "From Radicalism to Scientific Convention: Biological Psychology in Russia from Sechenov to Pavlov." Ph.D. dissertaion, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.
  18. Todes, Daniel. "Pavlov's Physiology Factory," Isis 88:2 (June 1997): 205-46.
  19. Todes, Daniel. "From the Machine to the Ghost Within: Pavlov's Transition from Digestive Physiology to Conditional Reflexes," American Psychologist 52:9 (September 1997): 947-55.
  20. Tuve, Jeanette E. The First Russian Women Physicians (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1984).
  21. Yaroshevsky, M.G. Ivan Sechenov (Moscow: Mir, 1986).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Anan'ev, B.A. Ocherki istorii russkoi psikhologii XVIII i XIX vekov (Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1947).
  2. Asratian, E.A. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: Zhizn', tvorchestvo, sovremennoe sostoianie ucheniia, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  3. Berezovskii, V.A. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1984).
  4. Dionesov, S.M. Kashevarova-Rudneva - pervaia ruskaia zhenshchina - doktor meditsiny (Moscow: Nauka, 1965).
  5. Grigorian, N.A. Kazanskaia fiziologicheskaia shkola (Moscow: Nauka, 1978).
  6. Iaroshevskii, M.G. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1968).
  7. Iaroshevskii, M.G. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov i mirovaia psikhologicheskaia mysl' (Moscow: Nauka, 1981).
  8. Koshtoiants, Kh.S. Sechenov, 2nd ed. (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1945).
  9. Kostiuk, P.G., et al., eds. Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (Moscow: Nauka, 1980).
  10. Kuznetsov, I.V., ed. Liudi russkoi nauki: ocherki o vydaiushchikhsia deiateliakh estestvoznaniia i tekhniki: Biologiia, meditsina, selskokhoziaistvennye nauki (Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1963).
  11. Kvasov, D.G., and A.K. Fedorova-Grot. Fiziologicheskaia shkola I.P. Pavlova: Portrety i kharakteristiki sotrundikov i uchenikov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967).
  12. Sokolov, M.V., ed. Iz istorii russkoi psikhologii (Moscow: APN RSFSR, 1961).
  13. Sokolov, M.V., ed. Ocherki po istorii russkoi psikhologii (Moscow: MGU, 1957).
  14. Vaindrakh, G.M. Podvigi russkikh vrachei: iz istorii bor'by s zaraznymi bolezniami (Moscow: AN SSSR, 1959).
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Science in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Environmental Studies

Sources in English:

  1. Weiner, Douglas. "The Historical Origins of Soviet Environmentalism," Environmental Review 6 (1982): 42-62.
  2. Weiner, Douglas. Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Sources in Russian:

  1. Reimers, N.F., and F.R. Shtil'mark. Osobo okhraniaemye prirodnye territorii (Moscow: Mysl', 1978).
  2. Struchkov, Anton Yu. "Nature Protection as Moral Duty: The Ethical Trend in the Russian Conservation Movement," Journal of the History of Biology 25 (Fall 1992): 413-28.
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