Groups, Languages, Algorithms: AMS-ASL Joint Special Session on Interactions Between Logic, Group Theory, and Computer Science, January 16-19, 2003, Baltimore, Maryland Book

Though I am new to the philosophy and history of science, this book is somewhat of a stand out in the way it tackles how science made the break with Aristotelian methodology. This is both a good and bad thing. Good in that Dear presents a gradual picture of the scientific revolution, and details factors and actants as connected to a larger world rather than portraying "science" as this inner world where people sit around destroying former paradigms (I'm looking at you Kuhn, well not really, but that formative book). Bad in that Dear spends a lot of time talking about Jesuits as if they had no religious context and sort of neglects the impacts of the protestant reformation.