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Dictionary of Scientific Biography by Scribners Reference Staff
Call Number: REF 509.22 D56

ISBN: 068480588X

Publication Date: 1998

Extensive biographies of deceased scientists and mathematicians.
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Ancient World by Robert E. Krebs; Carolyn A. Krebs
Call Number: REF 509.3 K87

ISBN: 0313313423

Publication Date: 2003

Inventions from prehistory to the Middle Ages
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Robert E. Krebs
Call Number: REF 509.4 K87

ISBN: 0313324336

Publication Date: 2004

Inventions of this seminal period included guns and modern wheelbarrows.
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries of the 17th Century by Michael Windelspecht
Call Number: REF 509.032 W72

ISBN: 0313315019

Publication Date: 2001

Covers both inventions of tools and scientific discoveries of the era.
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the 18th Century by Jonathan Shectman
Call Number: REF 509.033 Sh3

ISBN: 0313320152

Publication Date: 2003

Early modern discoveries and inventions are covered.
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the 19th Century by Michael Windelspecht
Call Number: [REF 509.034 W72

ISBN: 0313319693

Publication Date: 2003

Covers the explosion of scientific discovery and invention in the 19th century.
Encyclopedia of Time by H. James Birx (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412941648

Publication Date: 2009

Covers time in science, philosophy, theology, & culture

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