Bibliography of sources of information and articles about a variety of technological and scientific advances from the past to the present.

(A bibliography of tech and science sources of information from the past and the present)

Doing research is very much like going to cemeteries (libraries) and opening the appropriate graves (books) found there and re-arranging the bones (words); a concept that can be verified by the following extensive list of graves that have been and are being picked through for suitable bone arrangements.

—John Rayoa

Sources of Information about Technological and Scientific Advances from the Past and the Present

Lists of books, dictionaries, etc. which function to present data about science, technology, inventions, medicine, and other events that have had an affect on mankind.

Set of books representing dictionaries or other sources of etymological information about word origins.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island, and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

—Walt Disney

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1981.

Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.

Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's New Guide to Science. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1984.

Asimov, Isaac. Words from the Myths. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.

Barnhart, Robert K., ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of Science. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.

Bhagwati, Jagdish. In Defense of Globalization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators, A History of Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1993.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers, A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself. New York: Random House, 1983.

Black, Henry Campbell. Black’s Law Dictionary. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co, 1990.

Brown, Roland Wilbur. Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Burnam, Tom. The Dictionary of Misinformation. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975.

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia, Pa.: W.B. Saunders Company, 2000.

Encarta World English Dictionary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Feats and Wisdom of the Ancients. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1990.

Florida, Richard. The Flight of the Creative Class. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Gayley, Charles Mills. The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1939.

Guerber, H. A. The Myths of Greece & Rome. New York: London House & Maxwell, 1967.

Hayes, Bill. Five Quarts, a Personal and Natural History of Blood. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.

Herzberg, Max J. Classical Myths. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1935.

International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology. Volumes I-III. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1986.

Jackson, Joe. A World on Fire; A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen. New York: Vliking, 2005.

Jones, Tom B. Ancient Civilization. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1960.

Kennedy, Paul. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Random House, 1993.

Klein, Edward. The Truth about Hillary. New York: Sentinel of the Penguin Group, 2005.

Klein, Dr. Ernest. A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Volumes I and II. New York: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966.

Kravitz, David. Who’s Who in Greek and Roman Mythology. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1975.

Lincoln, R.J. and G.A. Boxshall. The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Lissner, Ivar. The Living Past. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1957.

McAdam, E.L., Jr. & George Milne. Johnson’s Dictionary, A Modern Selection. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963.

McCrum, Robert, et al. The Story of English. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books-Viking, 1986.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1989.

McGraw-Hill Science & Technology, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992.

Moment, Gairdner B. General Zoology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd Ed. New York: Random House Inc, 1993.

Sabin, Frances E. Classical Myths That Live Today. Morristown, New Jersey: Silver Burdett Company, 1958.

Schmidt, Jacob Edward. Reversicon, A Medical Word Finder. Springfield, Ilinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1958.

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 27th Ed. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999.

Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 18th Ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: F.A. Davis Company, 1997.

Tripp, Edward. Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970.

Van Aken, A.R.A. The Encyclopedia of Classical Mythology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1963.

Van Der Waerden, B.L. Science Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Van Doren, Charles. A History of Knowledge. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.

Von Hagen, Victor W. The Roads That Led to Rome. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1967.

Webster’s, New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Ed. Unabridged. Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam Company, Publishers, 1952.

Webster’s II, New Riverside University Dictionary. Boston: The Riverside Publishing Company, 1984.

Webster’s, New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2nd College Ed. Cleveland, Ohio: William Collins/World Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.

Webster’s Word Histories. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., Publishers, 1989.

Lists of sources of information from magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, etc.

Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. and V.V. Ivanov. “The Early History of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. March 1990, pp. 110-116.

Renfrew, Colin. “The Origins of Indo-European Languages.” Scientific American. October 1989, pp. 106-114.

Renfrew, Colin. “World Linguistic Diversity.” Scientific American. January 1994, pp. 116-123.

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—Aldous Huxley