Martin Lister
Martin Lister Bibliography
Primary Editions
‘Martin Lister’s Healing Springs of England (annotated translation)’, ed. and tr. Anna Marie Roos, in Anna Marie Roos, ed., The Salt of the Earth: Chemistry, Medicine, and Natural Philosophy in England, 1650–1750 (Leiden, 2007).
A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698, by Martin Lister, ed. R.P. Stearns (Carbondale, 1967).
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Secondary Works
Carr, Jeff, The Biological Work of Martin Lister (1638–1712) (University of Leeds: PhD thesis, 1974).
Cook, Hal, ‘Natural History and Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Medicine’, in H. Marland and M. Pelling, eds, The Task of Healing (Rotterdam, 1996), pp. 253–70.
Hunter, Michael, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (London, 1995).
Iliffe, Rob, ‘Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London’, Canadian Journal of History, 33 (1998), pp. 358–85.
Keynes, Geoffrey, Dr. Martin Lister: A Bibliography (Goldaming, 1981).
Parker, John and Harley, Basil, eds, Martin Lister’s English Spiders, 1678 (Colchester, 1992).
Roos, Anna Marie, Spiderman: Martin Lister (1639–1712), Naturalist and Physician (Leiden, forthcoming, 2010).
— , ‘A Speculum of Chymical Practice: Isaac Newton, Martin Lister (1639–1712), and the Making of Telescopic Mirrors’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2010).
—, ‘Lilies of the Sea’, Natural History, 118, no. 10 (December 2009/January 2010), pp. 26–30.
— , ‘All that Glitters: Fool’s Gold in the Early Modern Era’, Endeavour, 32 (December 2008), pp. 147–51.
— , ‘Lodestones and Gallstones: the Magnetic Iatrochemistry of Martin Lister (1639–1712)’, History of Science, 46 (2008), pp. 343–64.
— , ‘Martin Lister (1639–1712) and the Chemistry of Fool’s Gold’, Ambix, 51 (2004), pp. 23–42.
Unwin, R.W., ‘A Provincial Man of Science at Work: Martin Lister, F.R.S., and His Illustrators, 1670–1683′, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 49 (1995), pp. 209–30.
Wood, S., ‘Martin Lister, Zoologist and Physician’, Annals of Medical History, 1 (1929), pp. 87–104.
Woodley, J.D., ‘Anne Lister, Illustrator of Martin Lister’s Historiae Conchyliorum (1685–1692)’, Archives of Natural History [Great Britain], 21 (1994), pp. 225–29.
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