- The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
- The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Science Without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870–1940
- The Caloric Theory of Gases: From Lavoisier to Regnault
- Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology