| Natural history and the emblematic world view WB Ashworth Jr Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, 303-332, 1990 | 362* | 1990 |
| A probable Flamsteed observation of the Cassiopeia A supernova WB Ashworth Jr Journal for the History of Astronomy 11 (1), 1-9, 1980 | 211 | 1980 |
| Emblematic natural history of the Renaissance WB Ashworth Jr Cultures of Natural History, 17-37, 1996 | 186* | 1996 |
| Catholicism and early modern science WB Ashworth Jr God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and …, 1986 | 126 | 1986 |
| The persistent beast: Recurring images in early zoological illustration WB Ashworth Jr The Natural Sciences and the Arts. Aspects of Interaction from the …, 1985 | 54 | 1985 |
| Light of reason, light of nature: Catholic and Protestant metaphors of scientific knowledge WB Ashworth Jr Science in Context 3, 89-107, 1989 | 50 | 1989 |
| Remarkable humans and singular beasts WB Ashworth The age of the marvelous 116, 1991 | 32 | 1991 |
| Marcus Gheeraerts and the Aesopic connection in seventeenth-century scientific illustration WB Ashworth Jr Art journal 44 (2), 132-138, 1984 | 29 | 1984 |
| Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution WB Ashworth, DC Lindberg, RS Westman Cambridge University Press, 1990 | 24 | 1990 |
| Christianity and the mechanistic universe WB Ashworth Jr When Science and Christianity Meet, 61-84, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| The Habsburg circle WB Ashworth Jr Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine at the …, 1991 | 18 | 1991 |
| Iconography of a new physics WB Ashworth Jr History and Technology, an International Journal 4 (1-4), 267-297, 1987 | 14 | 1987 |
| John Bevis and his 'Uranographia' (ca. 1750) WB Ashworth Jr Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 125, 52-73, 1981 | 13 | 1981 |
| Divine reflections and profane refractions: Images of a scientific impasse in seventeenth-century Italy WB Ashworth Jr Gianlorenzo Bernini: New Aspects of His Art and Thought, 179-206, 1985 | 12* | 1985 |
| Theories of the Earth, 1644-1830: The History of a Genre WB Ashworth Jr Linda Hall Library, 1984 | 11* | 1984 |
| Cultures of Natural History WB Ashworth, N Jardine, JA Secord, EC Spary Cambridge UP, 1996 | 10 | 1996 |
| A rejection of Nova Orionis 1667 with a suggestion of a possible Nova Orionis 1678 WB Ashworth Jr Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 22, 22-27, 1981 | 10 | 1981 |
| Vulcan's Forge and Fingal's Cave: Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geological Time WB Ashworth Jr Linda Hall Library, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science W Ashworth, DC Lindberg, RL Numbers Chapter Catholicism and Early Science, 1986 | 9 | 1986 |
| Allegorical astronomy WB Ashworth Jr The Sciences, 34-37, 1985 | 9 | 1985 |
