Applebaum, Wilbur, ed. Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution: from Copernicus to Newton. New York: Garland, 2000.
Faul, Henry and Carol Faul. It began with a stone: a history of geology from the Stone Age to the age of plate tectonics. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1983.
Hayes, H. R. Birds, beasts, and men: a humanist history of zoology. New York: Putnam, 1972.
Morton, A. G. History of botanical science: an account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day. London: Academic Press, 1981.
O’Ogilvie, Brian W. The science of describing: natural history in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Conrad Gesner, Insectorum, sive minimorum animalium theatrum (On Insects, or, the theater of small animals,1634) (Gottinger Digitalisierungszentrum/Center for Retrospective Digitisation, Univ. of Gottingen)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (at JSTOR, available through BYU library)
“Nature Described” from the exhibit “Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture” (Library of Congress)
Vulcan's Forge and Fingal's Cave: Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geologic Time (Linda Hall Library)
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks)
The Grandeur of Life: A Celebration of Charles Darwin (Linda Hall Library)