Previously I blogged about some biography book series featuring scientists, notably here and here. The latter post mentioned the Blackwell Science Biographies series that migrated to Cambridge University Press, as well as a more general biography series at Oxford University Press (OUP) called Lives and Legacies, that has featured two physicists, Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin.
Somehow I neglected to mention in my post on the Cambridge Companions series, that Oxford University Press has an Oxford Handbook of Newton currently in development. Some of the chapters have been published online, and they look quite promising.
I recently learned of another Blackwell series, Blackwell Great Minds, that currently resides at the publisher Wiley. Like OUP's Lives and Legacies, it is a very general series not focused on scientists. However, I know of two scientists who have volumes dedicated to them: Darwin and Newton. (There is also a volume on Descartes.) So it seems among the larger intellectual history culture, Darwin and Newton may be the most consequential scientists. Both of them are represented in the following series:
- Cambridge Companions.
- Very Short Introductions (OUP).
- Cambridge Science Biographies.
- Oxford Portraits in Science.
- Blackwell Science Biographies (Wiley).
