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, 2006-07, are as follows:
| Paper 1 | Selections from Plutarch's Dialogue on the Face of the Moon. |
| Paper 2 | Fontenelle, tr, Behn, A Discovery of New Worlds (1688). |
| Paper 3 | Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (1859). |
| Paper 4 | Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (1981), chapter 2. |
| Paper 5 | Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy, second edition (Routledge, London, 1990). Charles Elton, Animal Ecology, 1927. |
| Paper 6 | Freud, Sigmund, 'From the history of an infantile neurosis' (1914/18) in: Freud, Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, London, 1955, Vol. XVII pp. 3-122. |
| Paper 7 | Thomas Brugis, The Marrow of Physick (London, 1640, 1648, and 1669). |
| Paper 8 | The Visible Human Project® |
| Paper 9 | C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution [1959], Cambridge, 1993, and F. R. Leavis, Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow, London, 1962. |
Each source will have four hours of seminars. The seminars for each source will be held in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2006. 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 31 January 2007. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).