The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, in History and Philosophy of Science, 2004-05, are as follows:
| Paper 1 | Selections from S. Parpola (ed.), Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (1990) |
| Paper 2 | Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) |
| Paper 3 | Selected parts of Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (1859) |
| Paper 4 | Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (1981), chapter 2 |
| Paper 5 | Langdon Winner, 'Do Artefacts Have Politics?' |
| Paper 6 | Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), chapter 7 |
| Paper 7 | Helkiah Crooke, Mikrocosmographia (1616), Book 4 |
| Paper 8 | Robert Koch, 'The Aetiology of Tuberculosis' (1882), trans. K. Codell Carter, Essays of Robert Koch (1987) |
| Paper 9 | A. D. Sokal, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (1996) |
| Paper 10 | Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) |
Each source will have four hours of seminars. The seminars for each source will be held in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2004. Candidates are advised to attend seminars for four Primary Sources. These will normally be those sources associated with the three papers they are offering plus one other. Candidates will be required to write essays on two sources, which must be submitted to the Examiners on Monday, 24 January 2005. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).