1. One such an assessment, with respect to the fate of the kind of natural history practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, comes at the end of Paula Findlen's Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994), 393–407.
2. Essay Review: Science in the Enlightenment: Science and the Enlightenment
3. The Enlightenment in National Context