I’ve started to formulate (on a very early level) my reading list for the STC portion of my comprehensive exams next fall. I plan to do quite a bit of reading over the summer—and this list will definitely grow. To start, here are a few articles/books I am looking at:

• Zappen, James P. “Francis Bacon and the Historiography of Scientific Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 8 (Fall 1989): 74-87.

• Boas, Marie. The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630. The Rise of Modern Science. 1962. New York: Harper Torchbooks Science Library-Harper, 1966.

• Whitney. Charles, Francis Bacon and Modernity New Haven: Yale UP, 1986

• Winner. Langdon. Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought. Cambridge: MIT P, 1977.

• Van den Daele, Wolfgang. “The Social Construction of Science: Institutionalisation and Definition of Positive Science in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century.” The Social Production of Scientific. Knowledge. Ed. Everett Mendelsohn, Peter Weingart, and Richard Whitley. Sociology of the Sciences: A Yearbook I. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1977. 27-54.

• Webster, Charles. The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform 1626-1660. London: Duckworth, 1975.

• Halloran, S. Michael, and Annette Norris Bradford. “Figures of Speech in the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.” Essays on Classical Rhetoric- and Modern Discourse. Ed. Robert J. Connor 179-92.

There is a lot more to come…but, I think this is an interesting start to poking around in areas of interest.